Data Engineer -Sr Consultant-Data Serving

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.

We are looking for a curious and motivated professional to join our team of passionate and dedicated engineers. We are the Data Custodians at Visa, tackling data and its related challenges at global scale to help the business make data-driven decisions.

As a Senior Consultant in the Data and Artificial Intelligence Platform (DAP) organization, you will work with a based in Foster City, California, USA. You are a passionate and driven technology professional, with experience in building solutions for business users, working with a versatile team of engineers, and a track record of execution and delivery. You will work in a rapid-paced environment, embracing a culture where we learn fast and constantly iterate towards success.

You will be working on Risk and Identity related solutions, helping build comprehensive understanding of our consumers. You will have responsibility of owning and delivering key components while working with a team of developers, architects, SMEs and product owners globally to implement the solution.This position will report to a Sr. Director of Data-as-a-Services development based in Foster City.

Come join us and see your efforts shape the digital future of payments!

Essential Functions

• Provide hands-on technical leadership, guidance and mentoring to a team to deliver high-quality, robust, and scalable solutions on time
• Lead the design and implementation of a scalable, secure, reliable and performant components
• Create and promote an agile development culture within the team focused on high quality code development and deployment to production.
• Work with geographically distributed teams on technical challenges and process improvements
• Facilitate knowledge transfer to the Engineering and Operations team during and after deployment
• Drive a culture of innovation by continuously evaluating technologies and practices that increase productivity and quality
• Develop and empower team members to make appropriate technical decisions
• Work collaboratively with senior management, architects and senior development staff to develop broadly acceptable solutions
• Foster a culture of teamwork, collaboration, and mentoring
• Demonstrate Visa's core values and maintain a positive and open demeanor
• This role requires you to code at least 75% of the time

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

Basic Qualifications:

* 8 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications:

* 9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 or more years of experience with a PhD

* 10+ years of hands-on software development experience including architecture design, coding, data processing, data packaging and serving, etc.

* 7+ years of experience in developing highly available enterprise level applications and platforms utilizing technologies such as Big Data, Hadoop Stack, Kafka, relational and graph databases, Key-Value stores etc.

* Proficient using languages like Java, Scala, and Python. Strong on elegant coding, can write very solid prototypes or core components quickly

* Experience working with Graph databases and RESTFul APIs

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

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.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 174,500.00 to 253,200.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.