Senior Director, Cloud Architect

Basic Qualifications:

• 12 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

Preferred Qualifications:

• 15 or more years of experience with a Bachelor's Degree or 12 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, or MD), PhD with 9+ years of experience

• Deep experience in Cloud implementations for Clients with one or more of the following platforms - Google, Azure, AWS

• Deep experience with automation and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes

• Experience with automated DevOps and CloudOps

• Experienced with agile development process and methodologies.

• Strong knowledge of cloud service providers, cloud technology trends, cloud development tools, cloud migration and management and container technologies.

• A deep understanding of cloud-based data platform architectures, containers and serverless technologies

• Expertise in solution architecture including web services, databases, front-end, back0end technologies.

• Certifications in Google, Azure Cloud, or AWS

• Knowledge of cloud data technologies such as data lakes.

• Experience interacting with external vendors.

• Knowledge of cloud native architecture, cloud tooling and DevOps

• Proven experience with large scale distributed & cloud-based technologies such as Kubernetes, Hazelcast, Kafka, MySQL, Mongo, Cassandra, Containers, Chef, Splunk, Elastic, and Hadoop.

• Large-scale software/application development with coding experience in some of the following: Java, JavaScript, C/C++, C#, .NET, Python, PHP etc.

• Experience managing a team of onshore and offshore architects, developers, and analysts.

• Exposure to SOW negotiation, client management, project delivery

• Ability to define competitive and innovative technical design and get client buy-in

• Exceptional collaboration and partnership skills with the ability to work in a global environment and drive consensus in cross-functional teams.

• Demonstrated interpersonal skills to interface well with clients and partners at all levels.

• Outstanding communications ability to a diverse customer audience, executives, product, and technology stakeholders

• Strong relationship management skills

• Solid business acumen

• Experience demonstrating strong leadership, self-motivation, and accountability.

• Fast learner on both technical and business side

• Strong customer centric mindset.

• Comfortable operating in a matrix setup

• Proactive, demonstrate sense of urgency and 'can do' attitude.

• Detail and results oriented, able to analyze data to justify product decisions and apply key learnings.

• Ability to stay organized while managing competing priorities.

• Excellent verbal and written communications skills

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

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.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 153,800.00 to 250,000.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.