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Job Description
We are hiring a Sr. Manager, Data Engineering to lead multiple engineering teams — or one strategically critical area — within our real-time event processing platform. You will drive cross-team effectiveness, coach people and set area-level standards for reliability, governance, and execution. You will shape how our event platform scales, how our engineers grow, and how we operate under the demands of a global fintech environment. If you thrive at the intersection of technical depth, people development, and organizational design, this is your role.
Main Responsibilities:
Portfolio & Multi-Team Leadership
- Lead an engineering area spanning multiple teams or services within the event platform.
- Drive cross-team prioritization: resolve dependency conflicts, remove structural bottlenecks, ensure operating consistency.
- Set area-level expectations for architecture governance, reliability, security posture, and execution quality.
People & Organizational Development
- Strengthen succession depth — identify and develop future managers and tech leads.
- Own hiring plans across your area; calibrate hiring bars and ensure diverse pipeline.
- Build a culture where constructive debate, accountability, and continuous learning are the norm.
- Run performance calibrations across teams; ensure fairness and consistency in reviews and promotions.
Delivery & Operational Excellence
- Own short-term operational plans (< 1 year) for your area; align with broader org strategy.
- Coordinate major incidents, cross-team escalations, and delivery risks that span team boundaries.
- Drive initiatives to improve platform reliability, cost efficiency, and developer experience.
- Ensure all teams maintain healthy on-call rotations, runbooks, and incident response practices.
Technical Governance
- Maintain portfolio-level architecture fluency: event processing, streaming, serverless, observability.
- Run or sponsor architecture reviews for cross-cutting changes.
- Champion platform cost/risk/quality trade-offs at the area level.
- Ensure engineering standards are consistent across teams (CI/CD, testing, security, documentation).
Cross-Functional & Upward Partnership
- Partner with Product, Analytics, Security, Compliance, and peer engineering leaders.
- Represent your area in leadership forums; communicate risks, needs, and achievements clearly.
- Influence practices and policies within the job function through data-driven proposals.
This is a remote position. A remote position does not require job duties be performed within proximity of a Visa office location. Remote positions may be required to be present at a Visa office with scheduled notice.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
- 8+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 11+ years of relevant work experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 or more years of experience with a PhD
Portfolio planning & multi-team dependency management
Architecture governance for event-driven / streaming platforms
AWS serverless & streaming ecosystem (Lambda, Kinesis, EventBridge, Step Functions, SQS/SNS)
Distributed systems design (fault tolerance, idempotency, backpressure, at-least-once delivery)
Org design fundamentals (team topology, span of control, role clarity)
Operating review cadence (delivery reviews, architecture reviews, incident reviews)
Platform cost/risk/quality trade-off analysis
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and CI/CD governance
Observability & SRE practices (SLO/SLI, CloudWatch, Grafana, distributed tracing)
Golang and/or Python platform services (architecture-level fluency)
Apache Kafka advanced concepts
Schema management & evolution (Avro, Protobuf, Schema Registry)
Security & compliance patterns (encryption, PII handling, rate limiting)
Financial planning (budget, headcount, cloud cost forecasting)
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.