Sr.Manager - Software Engineering(Java & Python, Kafka, Opensearch) - job 1 of 3

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.

Visa’s Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce.   We operate the world’s most sophisticated processing networks capable of handling more than 65k secure transactions a second across 80M merchants, 15k Financial Institutions, and billions of everyday people.   While working with us you’ll get to work on complex distributed systems and solve massive scale problems centered on new payment flows, business and data solutions, cyber security, and B2C platforms.     

The Opportunity: 

We are looking for Versatile, curious, and energetic Software Engineers who embrace solving complex challenges on a global scale.  As a Visa Software Engineer, you will be an integral part of a multi-functional development team inventing, designing, building, and testing software products that reach a truly global customer base. While building components of powerful payment technology, you will get to see your efforts shaping the digital future of monetary transactions.   

The Work itself: 

• Design code and systems that touch 40% of the world population while influencing Visa’s internal standards for scalability, security, and reusability 

• Collaborate multi-functionally to create design artifacts and develop best-in-class software solutions for multiple Visa technical offerings 

• Actively contribute to product quality improvements, valuable service technology, and new business flows in diverse agile squads 

• Develop robust and scalable products intended for a myriad of customers including end-user merchants, b2b, and business to government solutions. 

• Leverage innovative technologies to build the next generation of Payment Services, Transaction Platforms, Real-Time Payments, and Buy Now Pay Later Technology 

• Opportunities to make a difference on a global or local scale through mentorship and continued learning opportunities 

Essential Functions:

• Works with product owners to gather and refine requirements for one product, adding and taking into account existing tools and solutions across departments.

• Develops and designs moderately advanced architect solutions that are robust and scalable, considering integrations with other solutions across the internal technical ecosystem.

• Provides domain expertise on the development of user documentation of solutions and implements standard processes in user documentation.

• Plays a significant role in the development and delivery of new features within a product from end-to-end.

The Skills You Bring:

• Energy and Experience: A growth mindset that is curious and passionate about technologies and enjoys challenging projects on a global scale
  Challenge the Status Quo: Comfort in pushing the boundaries, ‘hacking’ beyond traditional solutions
  Key People Leader Skills:

• Team mentorship, and the ability to foster a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.

• Strong communication skills are vital for effective collaboration with cross-functional teams.

• The Senior Manager should possess problem-solving abilities, drive innovation, and prioritize tasks efficiently.

• Experience in fast-paced real time data environments, demonstrating adaptability and confident decision-making to address the evolving needs of the team and the organization, is crucial.

• Experience in swiftly resolving live production issues is essential to maintain system reliability and performance

• Builder: Experience building and deploying modern services and web applications with quality and scalability
• Learner: Constant drive to learn new technologies such as Angular, React, Kubernetes, Docker, etc.
• Partnership: Experience collaborating with Product, Test, Dev-ops, and Agile/Scrum teams

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Basic Qualifications:-

• 12+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 8 years of work experience with PhD.

Preferred Qualifications:-

• 4+ years of experience in managing teams and supporting global teams
• Strong problem-solving skills with attention to detail
• Excellent Communication and Collaboration skills.
• Experience with Cloud-based Data Engineering solutions is preferred.
• Experience with Big Data Technologies such as Hadoop, Kafka and Spark are
  preferred
• Knowledge in Generative AI or Generative AI tools is preferred.

Technology Expertise:

• 10+ years of experience in Python & JAVA/J2EE Programming and Shell scripting (required).
• 2+ years of experience in OpenSearch/Elastic Search(required)
• 7+ years of experience in Apache Kafka, Apache Spark, Apache Hadoop(required).
• 5+ years of experience in Docker and Kubernetes (highly preferred).
• 5+ years of experience in Cloud Applications (highly preferred).

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.