Visa
Chief Data Architect
US - Foster City, CA, USA · Exec
Sponsorship not specified$218k-$348kDetected 11 hours ago
SnowflakeDatabricksAWSGCPAzureMachine LearningData EngineeringData VisualizationComplianceFinancial AnalysisAccountingForecastingERPLeadershipCollaborationFinancial Reporting
About the role
- Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.
- Work Hours Varies upon the needs of the department.
Responsibilities
- Partner with enterprise architecture and governance teams to align with broader data strategies
- Partner with Risk, Controls, and Audit teams to enable transparent and auditable data flows
- Design data architectures that support advanced analytics, AI/ML, and future data use cases
- Collaborate with engineering teams and partners to ensure high-quality design and delivery
- Collaborate with business and technology stakeholders across Finance, Risk, Treasury, and Accounting
- Build strong relationships with key technology partners and vendors
- Define and drive the multi-year Finance data architecture roadmap aligned with business and enterprise data strategy
Requirements
- Basic Qualifications:
- 12+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or at least 9 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 15+ years of relevant work experience.
Nice to have
- 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.
- Proven track record of delivering large-scale data platform or transformation initiatives
- Strong experience working with senior business and technology stakeholders
- Experience with enterprise data modeling (conceptual, logical, physical)
- Familiarity with modeling approaches such as dimensional modeling or data vault
- Experience with cloud data platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Exposure to technologies such as Databricks, Snowflake, or similar
- Understanding of data warehousing, lakehouse, and distributed data architectures
Skills
- Define and oversee the architecture for the Finance Data Platform, including ingestion, transformation, and consumption layers
- Ensure alignment and reconciliation between operational systems and analytical reporting platforms
- Enable high-performance data processing for financial close, reconciliation, and reporting cycles
- Simplify and rationalize existing data platforms and pipelines
- Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location.
Compensation
- The estimated salary range for this position is $217,600.00 to $ 348,300.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable).
Benefits
- Lead the vision for a modern, cloud-based Finance data ecosystem spanning transactional, analytical, and reporting systems
Company info
- 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.
- Visa will accept applications for this role until at least 07-28-2026
- Join Visa and do work that matters - to you, to your community, and to the world.
- Progress starts with you.
- Job Description
- The Chief Data Architect - Finance Technology is responsible for defining and leading the enterprise data architecture strategy across the Finance Technology landscape.
- This role ensures scalable, secure, and governed data solutions that support financial reporting, regulatory reporting, planning, analytics, and decision-making.
- This leader also plays a key role in building and evolving the Finance Data Platform (FDP)-a cloud-enabled, enterprise data foundation designed to serve as the single source of truth for Finance data, enabling consistent, trusted, and self-service access across domains.
- The role requires close partnership with Finance, Technology, and Data teams to deliver a unified, modern data ecosystem across platforms such as ERP, EPM, data platforms, and analytics solutions.
- Strategic Leadership & Vision:
- Serve as a trusted advisor to Finance and Technology leadership on data strategy, architecture, and platform investments
- Position the Finance Data Platform as a central, governed data foundation for Finance use cases
- Enterprise Architecture & Governance:
- Establish and govern enterprise-wide data architecture standards, principles, and best practices
- Define canonical data models and standardized definitions across Finance domains
- Ensure consistency, scalability, security, and compliance across all Finance data solutions
- Platform & Integration Leadership:
- Own data integration strategy across Finance systems such as ERP, billing platforms, EPM, and analytics tools
- Drive adoption of scalable integration patterns including batch, streaming, APIs, and data pipelines
- Data, Risk & Control Accountability:
- Ensure Finance data solutions meet audit, regulatory, security, and compliance requirements (including SOX)
- Embed strong data governance practices including data quality, lineage, metadata, and stewardship
Visa & Work Authorization
- Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.
This listing is sourced directly from Visa's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.