Sr. Data Engineer

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Job Description

The Data and Artificial Intelligence Platform (DAP) group is a key component of Visa's Technology organization that provides the enabling technology and processes to handle Visa's data assets and deliver valuable information, products, and services to customers. DAP delivers secure, high-quality and easy-to-use Visa core data assets as a service, together with reliable and scalable data platform as a service, to enable Visa and our partners to rapidly and efficiently innovate data-driven business products and services to lead the digital payment industry. Areas of focus include Business Intelligence and Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data as a Service, and Platform as a Service etc. The portfolio comprises of over 60 data products & platforms for various external clients and internal lines of business. We provide services on behalf of traditional bank customers to millions of cardholders and merchants globally. Our application development is on the cutting edge of technology, and we are viewed as innovative leaders within our industry.

The Platform operationalizes the delivery of AI and decision intelligence to ensure ongoing business values. Built with composable AI capabilities, privacy-enhancing computation, and cloud native platforms, platform automates the updates to data, models, and applications. If you want to be in the exciting payment and AI space, learn fast, and make big impacts, this is an ideal place for you!

We are responsible for designing, developing, and implementing next generation data platforms to drive incremental revenue.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop critical systems with high-availability and high performance.
• Design, code and integrate n-tier applications with different application components
• Responsible for design and development of different products utilizing Visa's huge data.
• Interested in Innovation and ideation. Contribute to development of new products by building quick POCs and converting ideas into real products.
• Collaborate with business and technology stakeholders to deliver high quality products and services that meet business requirements and exceeds expectations while applying the latest available tools and technology.
• Have a passion for delivering zero defect code.
• Help developer efficiencies by utilizing Continuous Integration/Development tools, test automation frameworks and other related items.
• Effectively communicate status, issues, and risks in a precise and timely manner
• Work in Agile/Scrum teams and follow the guidelines.
• Create documentation and procedures for installation and maintenance.
• Collaborate with global and virtual teams on software development.
• Identify opportunities for future enhancements and refinements to products, standards, best practices and development methodologies

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant experience with software design, architecture and
development life cycle.
• Bachelor or Master Degree in Computer Science or related engineering
discipline.
• Experience in large scale mission critical applications.
• Proficiency in one or more programming language – Java, Scala and Python
• Strong problem-solving skills to deep dive, brainstorm, and choose best
solution approach.
• Experience in Bigdata and Ditributed processing Technologies
(Hadoop/Spark/Hive/Kafka...) is a MUST.
• Proficient in GIT/Stash, Maven, Jenkins etc.
• Passionate about delivering zero defect code that meet or exceed the
proposed defect SLA and have high sense of accountability for quality and
timeliness.
• Ability to deliver on multiple projects and manage priorities based on
changing directions
• Leading a module/team or mentoring experience will be a plus.
• Excellent presentation, collaboration and communication skills required.
• Experience being part of an Agile/Scrum team and following processes.

Additional Information

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.