Sr. Visualization Specialist(Visualization, Tableau, D3,SQL)

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. 

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Job Description

Global Data Solutions Team

To ensure that Visa’s payment technology is truly available to everyone, everywhere requires the success of our key bank or merchant partners and internal business units. The Global Data Solutions (GDS) team comprises of data practitioners with diverse data skillsets ranging from data science, data engineering, data visualization and data acquisition. The Global Data Visualization is a new team within the Global Data Solutions team that will utilize advanced BI and visualization skills to drive delivery of projects for Visa’s internal and external clients.

Our focus lies on building creative solutions that have an immediate impact on the business of our highly analytical partners. The team will work in complementary teams comprising members from Consulting, Data Science, Technology, Marketing, Legal and many other groups at Visa. To support our rapidly growing group we are looking to fill leadership roles in our Data Visualization group with candidates who equally passionate about the opportunity to use Visa’s rich data to tackle meaningful business problems.

We are looking for an exceptional technical lead and contributor in the data visualization and BI space. This position will be part of Global Data Solutions and will report into the Head of Data Insights Studio to lead development of BI and visualization for client projects. In this role, you will be working in a Global shared services set up out of Bengaluru location, leading and supporting regional Visualization requirements. You will be closely liaising with regional and global teams to drive client outcomes. This team will support out Visa Consulting & Analytics (VCA) business. This business is responsible for supporting Visa’s clients with data and insights- data visualization being a core part of these projects.

You will partner closely with regional stakeholders across consulting, data science, technology, and other teams. You will get a chance to leverage your technical knowledge of data engineering, visualization tools and data architecture skills. You will also be supported by a team, hence a team managerial experience will be crucial. Since this is a new team, the candidate will have a significant contribution in laying out the foundation of shared services based central team and building foundational capabilities (like micro frontends or data processes.) You will also be a hands-on expert who can effectively partner with cross-functional teams to build effective solutions.

Primary responsibilities

• Collaborate with regional stakeholders to understand and translate business needs into data visualization and data requirements.
• Design the UI wireframes based on the requirement following the industry and Visa/Team defined best practices and usage requirements from the end users.
• Design the end to end architecture to build the required dashboards including data flow/mappings in collaboration with Data engineering team.
• Develop key modules in Tableau, PowerBI, D3 or any other identified BI tools with acceptable performance.
• Ensure data accuracy and integrity in all visualizations and lead user acceptance testing with the business teams.
• Define the report/dashboard delivery mechanisms using API’s, subscription, report servers, etc. to provide the best experience to end users ensuring scalability requirements are addressed.
• Define the data and report level security requirements considering the different user roles and access privileges within the organization.
• Develop and maintain documentation for all data visualization processes and create content for end user training purposes.
• Build and manage a team of talented data visualization specialists with the ability to not only keep up with, but also pioneer, in this space.
• Execute projects following Agile scrum methodology, defining product backlogs, lead sprint prioritization, story pointing, sprint reviews, etc.
• Communicate effectively to inform and influence executive audiences, including executive level internal and external partners.
• Contribute to designing and developing data visualization strategies, frameworks and re-usable components in building and strengthening the Data insights practice.

Technical skills:

• Should have a strong understanding of data interpretation, and the ability to effectively represent data using appropriate visualization techniques. Additionally, candidates should have mastery of design principles, proficiency in visualization tools, and the ability to communicate complex data insights in a clear, compelling manner.
• Experience in gathering requirements, building prototypes, gathering feedback, and designing final outcome of visualization projects
• Expertise with Visualization Tools like Tableau, Power BI, D3 and exposure to code version control systems (git).
• Expertise in the workflows of visual design from identifying business goals to delivering impactful visualization and the processes in-between that make it happen.
• Experience in creating large scale data engineering pipelines, data-based decision-making and quantitative analysis.
• Experience – CICD/ Data Architectures/ Pipelines/ Quality /Code Management.
• Exposure to large scale project delivery, organization design and structure for shared services teams including intake, prioritization and associated tracking/reporting.
• Advanced experience in clarifying goals for BI/Visualization projects in ways that optimizes outcomes. Responsiveness to clients business goals and ability to translate into compelling reports and insights.
• Experience with SQL for extracting, aggregating, and processing big data Pipelines using Hadoop, EMR & NoSQL Databases.
• Experience creating/supporting production software/systems and a proven track record of identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks for production systems.

People Leadership and Stakeholder Management

• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills to build credibility with stakeholders
• Team management experience including hiring and mentoring team members, career planning, work allocation and conflict resolution.
• Team-oriented, collaborative, diplomatic, and flexible, with proven ability to build strong working relationships with internal and external clients at all levels of management and work on complex issues within cross-functional teams
• Open-minded and willing to listen to ideas and opinions from others. Able to look for new solutions when current processes don't work

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

• 6+ yrs. work experience with a Master’s in an analytical field such as computer science, statistics, finance, economics or adjacent areas.
• 4+ years of experience managing technical architecture, tooling and design systems for BI development preferably in a financial services or consulting setting.
• 4+ years of experience leading BI/ data visualization projects and related skills
• Familiarity with shared services, consulting, financial services is a strong plus.
• Expert knowledge of data visualization tool ecosystem and common open-source technologies, (For e.g. PowerBI, Tableau, Microstrategy, web frameworks like React, associated data engineering principles and practices)

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.