Staff Data Engineer

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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This position is ideal for those who is passionate about solving challenging business problems and building applications that provide an excellent user experience. As a Staff Data Engineer, you will be an integral part of the Loyalty and Marketing development team, focusing on designing and building software solutions that leverage data to solve business problems.

The role is for a self motivated individual with strong foundational software engineering skills. The candidate will be extensively involved in hands on activities, including POCs, design, documentation, and development of new functionality. The candidate must be flexible and willing to switch tasks based on the team's needs.
Responsibilities:

• This position is ideal for an engineer who is passionate about solving challenging business problems and building applications that provide excellent user experiences. You will be an integral part of the Loyalty development team focusing on design and building of software solutions that leverage data to solve business problems.
• Strategic thinker and good business acumen to orient data engineering to the business needs of internal clients.
• Lead development and oversee programming testing functions to ensure that projects are securely delivered while fulfilling expectations.
• Identify opportunities for further enhancements and refinements to standards and processes.
• Lead by example, demonstrating accountability, mentoring junior team members, and by contributing to departmental procedures, best practices, and standards.
• The candidate will be extensively involved in hands on activities including POCs, design, documentation, coding, testing, implementation, and documentation of solutions for new development, system enhancements, and production support.
• Candidate must be flexible and willing to switch tasks based on team's needs.
• Development and programming functions to ensure that projects are delivered on time and within budget with good code quality.
• Work with architects, systems analysts, project managers, QA, and other developers to successfully implement business requirements while applying the latest available tools and technology.
• Responsible for the architecture, design, development, implementation of data based software applications. This includes working with both business and technical stakeholders to deliver high quality products and services that meet business requirements and expectations.
• Interact with business units to define requirements and modifications and use case to utilize in designing appropriate solutions.
• Provide recommendation on scope and scale of effort required to develop solution.
• Design, develop, document, and implement new programs and subprograms, as well as enhancements, modifications, and corrections to existing software Develop testing and debugging routines.
• Create documentation and procedures for installation and maintenance.
• Build and maintain relationship with global and virtual teams and third parties on software development or support issues.
• Identify opportunities for further enhancements and refinements to standards, best practices, and development methodologies.
• Work directly with Architects, System Analysts, Dev leads and QA team leads to manage the technical aspects of a development pipeline.

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.

Basic Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related field with 6 years of relevant experience or BS Degree with 8 years of experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous exposure to financial services is a plus, but not required.
• Extensive experience in architecting and developing real time applications that are fault tolerant, scalable and can handle high volumes.
• Experience in best practices for API development and design patterns.
• Quick learner, self starter, detailed and thorough.
• Experience in all phases of software development life cycle including functional requirements definition, technical design, development, testing, quality assurance, system certification, systems implementation, and system validation.
• Consistently able to assess and evaluate problems in a production environment and manage risk to the service when recommending change.
• Strong secure coding practices.
• Good Knowledge on Hadoop framework and related Big Data Technologies (HDFS, Map Reduce, Spark, HBase, Kafka).
• Strong knowledge in Java or Scala or Python.
• Knowledge on Dot Net is a add on
• Strong knowledge of database concepts, systems architecture, and data structures is a must.
• Java, J2EE, Angular, Spring Cloud, Microservices and strong knowledge on API development is desired.
• Experience working in an Agile and Test-Driven Development environment.
• Process oriented with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Work independently and mentor others in the team and with minimal supervision.
• Ability to juggle multiple projects and change direction mid-course based on business drivers.
• Ability to work independently in a high throughput environment.
• Demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor, strong attention to detail, team oriented, energetic, collaborative, diplomatic, and flexible style.

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.