Lead Architect

Job Description
We are now entering an era of exponential advancement in AI-powered technologies, accelerated by the recent advent of Generative AI (GAI) applications and Large Language Models (LLMs). Visa is leading the industry in its embrace of GAI and LLMs in all areas from client facing innovation Visa is well positioned to pioneer and lead in the current collaboration commerce by leveraging our data for Visa and our clients in growing and optimizing global economy while still protecting the commerce ecosystem.  We are at the forefront of new and exciting explorations and discoveries on the power of AI. Our goal is to bring GAI in transformative commerce and with the power of AI, our vision is to bring innovative solutions to our merchants, consumers and banks in terms of offers and deals to drive further revenue growth. 
Reporting to the Head of Architecture of the Value Added Services )VAS) product development organization, the Chief Architect will have a critical role in VISA’s transformation and acceleration of our Generative AI journey. 
This role will work closely with the rest of the Technology leadership team in setting the AI/ML roadmap, analyzing and defining the critical initiatives and executing on them with specific focus on:
• Guide the company in the use of next GAI to deliver top-tier commerce applications / services in VAS and build comprehensive solutions for our merchants/consumers/banks. 
• Evaluate, develop, and deploy innovative technology solutions in the AI & ML space. 
• Understand the impact of GAI and ChatGPT on our business and drive solutions across various domains. 
• Choose features, build and optimize classifiers using machine learning techniques. 
• Extend our data with third-party sources of information when necessary. 
• Improve data collection procedures to include information relevant for building analytic systems.
Key Responsibilities 
• Drive the architecture for projects within the VAS business units (through architecture/design documents and developing key modules). 
• Collaborate with a team of Lead Engineers and stakeholders in the Value Added Services domains. 
• Establish software development patterns and best practices through examples and shipping code. 
• Ensure all relevant project teams follow a common set of principles and patterns and use a standard set of technology frameworks and libraries. 
• Apply architecture best practices that increase execution speed. 
• Develop architectures that are secure, robust, scalable, modular, API-centric, and global by nature. 
• Influence technology selection for the organization. 
• Define deployment topology in collaboration with peers across the technology organization. 
• Optimize the use of our Platforms & Solutions. 
• Contribute to key technology initiatives.
 
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 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.