Job Description

Company Description
Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose - to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.
Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

What a Senior Director, Head of Technology Advisory does primarily:
Drive the expansion of Technology Practice by leading business development, delivery and holding revenue targets for SMT - IPVMC clusters of Southeast Asia.
Offer expertise in high demand topics - Solution Integration of Visa Product Suite (e.g., Flex, Click to Pay, Visa Direct, Pismo, Currency Cloud etc.), building front-end mobile experiences, enabling payment interfaces, migrating banking stack and other topics that are complex in scale and scope, intellectually demanding, and deadline driven.
Contribute to key Practice building initiatives - top-line growth, new Capability / IP generation, program management, training, mentorship, and team initiatives.
The ability to conceptualize, analyze, build blueprint tech transformations and present solutions to senior stakeholders.
Manage end to end solutioning and delivery of key projects with a squad that comprises both internal resources and external partners.
You will support other consultants and in-market clients deployed teams, taking charge of specific aspects of the project. You will offer solutions for a specific client problem or challenge.
Develop and leverage partnerships with internal product SMEs to deliver holistic support spanning from scope definition to implementation
Stay abreast of evolving payment technologies, innovations, and strategic partners that may accelerate speed-to-market or enhance our existing products and solutions
This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications

• 15 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or at least 10 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters/MBA /JD/MD), or a minimum of 5 years of work experience with a PhD
• Bachelor's degree from a top tier institution with 17+ years of work experience.
• Demonstrated career progression at a consulting firm or in technology role.
• Have experience of working with senior tech executives e.g., CTOs in a bank.
• Working experience in credit card / payments domain is a key requirement.
• Have end-to-end technical expertise in payment systems integration, data management, security infrastructure ensuring efficiency, and robust payment solutions.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, able to develop well-structured communications and deliver presentations to audiences.
• Strong analytical skills, ability to have structured thinking and build strong arguments.
• Self-starter individual with a keen appetite for building the business.
• Entrepreneurial, proactive, someone who 'rolls up the sleeves' and gets things done.

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep Understanding of Core Banking and Card Management Stack, Processors, 4-Party Payment Model, Web technology stack & Supporting Technologies (TCP/IP, HTTP, HTML, JavaScript, RESTful APIs, etc.) and service deployment.
• Basic knowledge of cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud).
• Familiarity with Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process.
• Hold comprehensive knowledge of industry-standard security protocols such as Open ID Connect, OAuth2, SAML, JWT JOSE, JWKS, emphasizing their application in secure and reliable payment processing.
• Solid experience in enterprise application integration including APIs, Web Services (SOAP/RESTful), Micro Services, Containerization (Open Shift Containers, Kubernetes etc.)

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.