Lead Cybersecurity Engineer

Company Description

As the world's leader in digital payments technology, Visa's mission is to connect the world through the most creative, reliable and secure payment network - enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive. Our advanced global processing network, VisaNet, provides secure and reliable payments around the world, and is capable of handling more than 65,000 transaction messages a second. The company's dedication to innovation drives the rapid growth of connected commerce on any device, and fuels the dream of a cashless future for everyone, everywhere. As the world moves from analog to digital, Visa is applying our brand, products, people, network and scale to reshape the future of commerce.

At Visa, your individuality fits right in. Working here gives you an opportunity to impact the world, invest in your career growth, and be part of an inclusive and diverse workplace. We are a global team of disruptors, trailblazers, innovators and risk-takers who are helping drive economic growth in even the most remote parts of the world, creatively moving the industry forward, and doing meaningful work that brings financial literacy and digital commerce to millions of unbanked and underserved consumers.

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Job Description

What is important for us:  

Security First – Our team focusses on security in everything we do, and we take it seriously with no compromises of any sort. We look forward to working with like minds.  

Curiosity – Be curious; ask how things work and ask how you can learn new stuff. We believe curiosity fosters creativity.  

Ownership – We have clients and customers who trust us because we show them that we own what we do in every sense. We expect that every team member completely owns the activities that he/she is responsible for.

Agility – We believe in planning ahead, but also in being open to changes. We welcome change and new challenges.

Essential Functions: 

• Design and architect solutions that operate at enterprise scale and are optimized for resiliency and security
• Own functional areas and capabilities end-end, solve problems, engineer solutions and provide documentation to solve for enterprise scale problems in the ownership areas
• Execute and deliver on initiatives and projects, contributing from conception of the idea to the roll-out of the capability and supporting features
• Work with a team of highly focused developers, managing tasks, coordinating delivery and ensuring adherence to development best practices
• Work with stakeholders to build roadmaps, provide technical direction and work with peer team members to ensure goals are met
• Provide regular updates on execution and progress, delays – ensuring an agile mindset and adapt to changes in prioritization
• Develop key components, perform code reviews and contribute to development of automated and manual test cases
• Build, deploy features and solutions utilizing 3rd-party Security/IAM products like Sailpoint, ForgeRock, Okta
• Keep updated with technology trends and bring new ideas and innovation to the IAM team and Visa at large.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• 10 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree in science/ engineering or at least 8 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, PhD) in science/ engineering
• 7+ years of hands-on experience as developer/consultant with the following experience
• Strong programming and logical skills, with a focus on Java, Python
• Experience working on Identity Management tools like Oracle Identity Manager, Sailpoint IdentityIQ or similar
• Experience with RBAC and with role mining or role engineering
• Experience with data analytics and machine learning
• Strong development skills: understanding of source code management, unit and integration tests, static code analysis and SDLC
• Excellent inter-personal, analytical & communication skills
• Affinity for an engineering culture that emphasizes Agile, DevOps, and continuous delivery

Preferred Qualifications:

• 12 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree in science/ engineering or at least 10 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, PhD) in science/ engineering
• Experience building connectors, workflows and integrations from and within Identity Management solutions
• Hands on experience with User directories (LDAPv3) – modeling, hierarchy, integrations
• Prior experience on IAM/Security products related to authentication, authorization, SSO, SIEM and/or enterprise security protocols like SAML, OpenID, OAuth and/or mobile development (iOS/Android)
• Prior knowledge of Apache big data analytics tools like Kafka, Spark, HDFS, Elastic Search and/or JavaScript Frameworks
• Good command of querying, query optimizations on different data stores (Relational, NoSQL)
• Security Certifications – CISSP, CISM or others

Additional Information

Visa has adopted a COVID-19 vaccination policy to safeguard the health and well-being of our employees and visitors. As a condition of employment, all employees based in the U.S. are required to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19, unless a reasonable accommodation is approved or as otherwise required by law

Work Hours: Typically 9-5, with some coverage for meetings with geographically dispersed teams.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel up to 5% 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.