Lead Solutions Architect

Company DescriptionVisa 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 DescriptionVisa's Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce. We operate one of the world's most sophisticated global transaction networks-processing more than 65,000 secure transactions per second across 80 million merchants, 15,000 financial institutions, and billions of people worldwide. As part of our AIFirst Innovation team, you will help define and deliver transformative intelligencedriven products that unlock new payment experiences, new business flows, and new capabilities across Visa's ecosystem.The OpportunityWe are seeking aversatile, curious, and impactdriven Lead Solutions Architectwho thrives at the intersection of AI, distributed systems, and largescale customer impact. In this role, you will lead the execution of nextgeneration AIpowered solutions-partnering closely with engineering, data science, design, security, and business stakeholders. You will steward development from ideation to scaled deployment, guiding teams to build intelligent, resilient, and trustworthy systems that serve Visa's global network.The Work ItselfTranslate complex business challenges into clear engineering roadmaps, user requirements, and technical specifications that enable breakthrough innovation across payment flows, fraud intelligence, data products, and realtime commerce platforms.Lead the experimentation pipeline, evaluating new technologies, model types, LLMbased features, and platform capabilities-and guiding teams through proofofconcepts, pilots, and scaled launches.Implement innovationsfor AInative capabilities that touch 40% of the world's population, setting new standards for scalability, security, explainability, and reusability.Drive crossfunctional collaboration, ensuring model developers, platform engineers, UX teams, and product partners align on architecture, capabilities, and success metrics.Champion product quality and operational resilience, identifying systemic patterns across data, model performance, bugs, and user friction-and driving durable solutions.Shape Visa's nextgeneration AI ecosystem, leveraging cloudnative and modern AI/ML technologies to build robust, privacypreserving, and globally scalable services.Enable global impact, mentoring teams, developing best practices, and contributing to internal learning programs to elevate Visa's AI maturity and experimentation culture.Essential Functions Provide deeptechnical leadershipacross AI, data platforms, and largescale distributed systems-directing strategy for how requirements are collected, evaluated, and transformed into decisive product direction. Lead structured discovery with product, engineering, and business stakeholders torecommend architectures, model integration patterns, and scalable design strategies. Establish and maintainstandards for responsible AI, including data quality, model testing, explainability, observability, and endtoend governance. Lead planning and implementation fornew AI capabilities and intelligent features, ensuring seamless integration into Visa's global platforms and customer experiences. Analyze performance patterns, customer signals, and model behavior to implementsystemic improvements and longterm product enhancements.

Created: 2026-01-15