Senior 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.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Visa is seeking highly energetic, passionate, technology enthusiast for Data Platform team.

The successful candidate will work as a Senior Data Engineer and be part of the Data as a Service team to design and develop solutions for all data requirements. The ideal candidate will bring robust technical strength in developing solutions in extremely high volume, low latency ETL workflow design and also bring an excellent understanding of data. This role will participate in design discussions, create solutions, develop programs and ensure successful delivery of business capabilities. This role will assume technical ownership of multiple applications and create robust and scalable solutions.
Visa provides a challenging environment of volume, velocity and variety that is rarely matched.

Candidates looking forward to thrive in such environment are encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities :

• Translate business requirements and source system understanding into technical solutions using Big Data & Java etc.
• Work with business partners directly to seek clarity on requirements
• Define solutions in terms of components, modules and algorithms
• Design, develop, document and implement new programs and subprograms, as well as enhancements, modifications, and corrections to existing software.
• Create technical documentation and procedures for installation and maintenance.
• Write Unit Tests covering known use cases using appropriate tools
• Integrate test frameworks in development process
• Refactor existing solutions to make it reusable and scalable
• Work with operations to get the solutions deployed
• Take ownership of production deployment of code
• Collaborating with and/or lead cross functional teams, build and launch applications and data platforms at scale, either for revenue generating or operational purposes
• Lead a small team
• Come up with Coding and Design best practices

Thrive in self-motivated internal-innovation driven environment.
Adapting fast to new application knowledge and changes.

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

Bachelors in Computer Science, or Information Systems or related field from one of the top institutes
5+ years of experience in data technologies and applications development
4+ years of experience in Hadoop using Core Java Programming, Scala, Spark, Kafka , Hive on Linux/Unix environment
Agile & waterfall development experience
Expertise in Object Oriented Programming Language - Java
Strong algorithms and data structures
Ability to generate creative and innovative solutions for QA challenges and constraints
Strong knowledge of database concepts and UNIX/LINUX
Expert level SQL skills for data manipulation (DML) and validation (DB2)
Experience using version control and bug tracking tools
Result oriented with strong analytical and problem solving skills
Work independently with minimal supervision
Comfortable learning new technologies quickly
Experience leading a small team good to have
Excellent team player
Strong interpersonal and communication skills

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.