Portfolio Architect

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging - where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world - helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

**Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.**

**Job Description**:
**Team Summary**

You will be part of the Portfolio Architecture Team - who are growing the capabilities and services across Visa Spend Clarity to deliver scalable and robust solutions that will take Visa Spend Clarity to more customers and users around the globe. With an engineering group of nearly 300 people, Visa Spend Clarity is a key focus area with large growth ambitions driven by customer needs and a desire to innovate using modern cloud technologies.

**What a Portfolio Architect does at Visa**

The Portfolio Architect - Security, is recognised as an outcome focused technology leader working across a range of value streams (1-4 product engineering teams per value stream), maintaining a particular emphasis on shifting security left and developer effectiveness as we scale our product globally.

As a senior architect, you will work closely with product and technology leaders to help shape the overall technical direction of the organisation. You will also work closely with the wider Visa Cyber Security Group to champion the evolution of our Product and Technology Architecture, with a particular focus on security & compliance capabilities.

**Technical Governance**
- Nurture, participate in and help chair Visa Spend Clarity’s lightweight Technology Governance Forum, ensuring teams are enabled to make good technical decisions with autonomy and alignment.
- Support domain architects in producing architecture solutions that align to our technical practices and standards and are coherent with our product and technology strategy.
- Facilitate the establishment, implementation and adoption of appropriate principles, practices, and standards in-line with supporting a stream-aligned, team-first delivery model.

**Strategy Enablement**
- Collaborate with product and engineering leaders to ensure the overall technology roadmap is complimentary to and an enabler of the product and technology strategy.
- Drive strategic technical discovery efforts to help identify opportunities to enable and accelerate execution of product and technology strategy.
- Work closely with senior technology leaders within our organisation to help shape the technology vision, be seen as a go-to person for the technology vision for a given portfolio.
- Support investment planning decisions by identifying and assessing architecture and technology changes required to enable the right outcome for our organisation.

**Technical Direction**
- Establish and maintain a longer-term view of the current and future (1-3 years) technology landscape within a defined portfolio/focus area.
- Establish and maintain a roadmap of technical initiatives required to evolve the technology platform for the long-term success of the portfolio.
- Identify, lead and/or provide active participation in strategic technical initiatives applicable to portfolio accountability.

**Leadership**
- Provide advice, guidance and coordination to the wider technology group as needed. Be seen as a go-to help point to drive alignment and facilitate any differences in direction.
- Support the implementation of our Technology Strategy through continual stream/team/domain alignment and context sharing.
- Support governance, decision, and advice processes by providing the context of our long-term product and technology strategy.

**Why this is important to Visa**

The Portfolio Architect is accountable for defining a plan for the pragmatic evolution of the technology landscape for a given portfolio of products and platform capabilities. Working in close collaboration with senior product and technology leaders, the Portfolio Architect identifies opportunities that enable product and technology strategy, supporting strategic technical discovery across multiple value streams and where necessary, leads the execution of strategic technology initiatives.

**Projects you will be a part of**:
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 two days a week, Tuesdays and Wednesdays with a general guidepost of bei