Vice President, Software Engineering

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Visa is seeking a seasoned VP of Software Engineering for the CMS PD organization in Auckland, reporting to the SVP, CMS PD. You’ll lead a 250+ person engineering team delivering scalable, low latency, high‑availability systems, advance cloud-native architectures, and drive AI‑powered tooling while upholding top security and regulatory standards. This role defines the technology strategy and multi-year roadmap in partnership with business leaders, aligning local and global priorities and fostering engineering excellence. The ideal candidate has 15+ years in software leadership, experience with large, distributed teams, and a track record in regulated financial services. Hybrid Auckland, three days in the office per week; tailor your resume to show large-scale delivery, security, cloud-native design, Agile leadership, cross-functional impact, and proven talent development.

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world. Join Visa and do work that matters — to you, to your community, and to the world.

Progress starts with you.

Job Description

Visa is seeking a seasoned, highly motivated leader to join the Commercial and Money Movement Solutions Product Development (CMS PD) organization as Vice President, Software Engineering reporting to the Senior Vice President, CMS PD.

Commercial and Money Movement Solutions (CMS) is a strategic growth pillar for Visa that will deliver significant revenue for the company over the coming years. CMS is focused on driving Visa’s strategy to expand beyond core Consumer to Business (C2B) payments into broader money movement flows across individuals, businesses, and governments. The CMS PD team within Visa Technology is chartered with building the platforms and product capabilities that will directly enable the growth aspirations of our CMS business.

 As Vice President of Software Engineering in CMS PD, you will play a critical leadership role in shaping modern product development practices, harnessing emerging technologies for strategic advantage, and leading innovation initiatives that deliver a highly differentiated and competitive product portfolio for our clients

Essential Functions:

• Provide senior leadership for Visa’s New Zealand technology site, supporting sitewide priorities, engagement, and alignment with global and local organisational goals.
• Partner with business counterparts to develop multi-year strategic outlook plans for the product vertical.
• Define technology strategy for your product vertical in alignment with established business objectives.
• Provide leadership and oversight to a large team (250+) of technology leaders and developers implementing highly scalable, low-latency, high-throughput software systems that have five 9s plus availability.
• Own the planning, design, and delivery of all product development roadmap items for the vertical.
• Establish a culture of engineering excellence with focus on delivering high quality products to production.
• Ensure security and operational posture of the platform meets the highest standards.
• Hire top engineering leaders and talent, provide mentoring, coaching and guidance to your staff.
• Advance developer productivity through the adoption of innovative technologies, including AI-powered engineering tools and automation, enhancing both product quality and delivery efficiency.
• Ensure engineering practices meet the expectations of a regulated financial services environment, upholding compliance, security, and operational integrity.
• Establish a culture that values ownership, accountability and create an environment that enables innovation and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:
•12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 10 years of experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters/ MBA/JD/MD) or at least 8 years of work experience with a PhD

Desired Qualifications & Background:

•Bachelors or Master's with a STEM major (Science, Technology, Engineering or Math).
•15+ years relevant work experience, 10+ years of technical leadership experience and 10+ years of people management experience.
•Experience in leading large, global software engineering technology teams of 100+ across multiple time zones and cultures.
•Experience in design, architecture, and engineering of highly available, secure, resilient, and scalable systems.
•Experience in implementing cloud-native architectures and design patterns.
•Excellent knowledge of core engineering best practices and the ability to implement these across the team.
•Strong knowledge of SDLC principles and practices.
•Experience working in an Agile based product development setup and matrixed organizations.
•Demonstrated experience in change management concerning the adoption of modern & innovative technologies.
•Experience in crafting a collaborative and innovative work culture that encourages risk-taking and fosters excellence.
•An ability to combine analytical reasoning, creativity, and judgment in handling complex matters, with multiple initiatives going on simultaneously.
•Demonstrated ability to recruit, grow, nurture, retain, and lead high-caliber technical talent.
•Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills - In particular, a demonstrated ability to effectively communicate technical and business issues and solutions to multiple organizational levels internally and externally as needed to support the strategic goals.
•Deep Payments industry knowledge highly desired.

Based in Auckland, New Zealand, this is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office more than 50% of the time based on business needs.

Additional Information

Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.