Staff Data Engineer - Big Data

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.

Job Description

This position is ideal for an experienced Software engineer who is passionate about solving challenging business problems and building applications that provide an excellent user experience. You will be an integral part of Loyalty & Marketing Services team focusing on design and build of software solutions that leverage data to solve business problems.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the architecture, design, development, and implementation.

• Work on development of new products iteratively by building quick POCs and converting ideas into real products.

• Design and develop mission-critical systems, delivering high-availability and performance.

• Interact with both business and technical stakeholders to deliver high quality products and services that meet business requirements and expectations while applying the latest available tools and technology.

• Develop code and mentor junior developers to ensure delivery on time, within budget, and with good code quality.

• Have a passion for delivering zero defect code and be responsible for ensuring the team's deliverables meet or exceed the prescribed defect SLA.

• Help developer efficiencies by utilizing Continuous Integration/Development tools, test automation frameworks and other related items.

• Present technical solutions, capabilities, considerations, and features in business terms. Effectively communicate status, issues, and risks in a precise and timely manner.

• Identify opportunities for future enhancements and refinements to products, standards, best practices, and development methodologies

• Collaborate with global and virtual teams on software development.

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 two days a week, Tuesdays and Wednesdays with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% of the time based on business needs.

Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related field with 6 years of relevant experience or Bachelor’s degree with 8 years of relevant experience.
• Previous exposure to financial services is a plus, but not required.
• Strong knowledge on Hadoop framework components (HDFS, Map Reduce, Spark, HBase, Kafka).
• Strong knowledge in Java or Scala or Python.
• Strong knowledge of database concepts, systems architecture, and data structures is a must.
• Experience with one or more of the following database technologies: DB2, Postgres, MySQL, and NoSQL such as Hadoop, Hbase, MongoDB.
• Proficient in GIT/Stash, Maven, Jenkins etc.
• Java/J2EE/Angular, Spring Cloud, Microservices and strong knowledge on API development is a big plus.
• 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.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a complex organization to determine business and customer needs, providing the best solution to meet those needs.
• 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.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills required.

Additional Information

Visa has adopted a COVID-19 vaccination policy. As a condition of employment, all employees based in the country where this job is located are required to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19, unless a reasonable accommodation is approved or as otherwise required by law.