Lead Solutions Architect - GenAI

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.

Opportunity

We are seeking a versatile, curious, and impact-driven Lead Solutions Architect who thrives at the intersection of AI, distributed systems, and large-scale customer impact. In this role, you will lead the execution of next-generation AI-powered 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

Translate complex business challenges into clear engineering roadmaps, user requirements, and technical specifications that enable breakthrough innovation across payment flows, fraud intelligence, data products, and real-time commerce platforms. Lead the experimentation pipeline, evaluating new technologies, model types, LLM-based features, and platform capabilities—and guiding teams through proof-of-concepts, pilots, and scaled launches. Implement innovations for AI-native capabilities that touch 40% of the world’s population, setting new standards for scalability, security, explainability, and reusability. Drive cross-functional 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 next-generation AI ecosystem, leveraging cloud-native and modern AI/ML technologies to build robust, privacy-preserving, 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.

Skills

• AI-first mindset—curiosity, experimentation, and a passion for applying intelligent technologies to solve global-scale problems.
• Product leadership with technical depth, including experience driving ML, data, cloud, or highly-distributed system products.
• Ability to challenge the status quo, with comfort ideating beyond traditional solutions and guiding teams through ambiguity.
• Understanding of modern engineering and ML stacks, including familiarity with languages and frameworks such as Python, Java, C++, containers, Kubernetes, LLM APIs, vector databases, and real-time data systems.
• Experience shipping modern products with a focus on scalability, reliability, and measurable customer value.
• Continuous learning mindset, staying current with emerging AI technologies, MLOps patterns, and model-based product architectures.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration, working closely with Product, Engineering, Data Science, UX, DevOps, and Agile/Scrum teams.

Qualifications

• 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 at least 8 years of work experience with a PhD.
• Potential Sales Incentive Payments (if applicable).
• Estimated Salary Range: $186,800.00 to $ 299,200.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable).
• U.S. Applicants Only.