Senior Manager, Software Engineering - Data Platform

About Us

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

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 ( 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)