Data Engineer

Company Description

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.

Job Description

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 tackle massive scale problems centered on new payment flows, business and data solutions, cyber security, and B2C platforms.

The Opportunity:
We are looking for a versatile, curious, and energetic Data Engineer to join our team of passionate and dedicated engineers. We are the backbone for Data Engineering and Machine Learning developments at Visa and we thrive on solving complex challenges on a global scale! As a Data Engineer, you will be an integral part of a multi-functional development team inventing, designing, building, and testing products that reach a truly global customer base.

You will face big challenges and question the status quo, changing the way data products are developed at Visa! Come join us and see your efforts shape the digital future of payments.

The Work Itself:

• Participate in the entire lifecycle, from design through the development and test processes to production support.
• Tasked with building and maintaining highly scalable data processing pipelines using BigData technologies and SOA architecture.
• Implement continuous integration, testing, deployment practices and automation frameworks to increase productivity.
• Work with architectural and security teams to design, build, and maintain services that are compliant and meet Visa security standards.
• Participate in cross-group and internal customer feature demos.

Essential Functions:

• Interprets technical requirements provided by senior engineers.
• Executes component designs provided by senior engineers and works with others to document module design.
• Creates and implements code across assigned components; learns to apply coding patterns, guidelines, styles, and best practices; and adheres to all security requirements.
• Follows detailed instructions to apply basic modification techniques and operations to transform raw data into a form that is compatible with downstream data sources, databases, and servers.
• Learns about data management principles, governance, process, and tools to maintain data quality in assigned workstream.

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.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• 6 months of relevant work experience; OR a Bachelor's Degree

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2 or more years of work experience
• Hands-on experience with all aspects of software development: data, server-side, and open-source software.
• Willingness to adapt quickly and learn newer technologies
• Software development knowledge using Java or Python
• Basic knowledge and training in Bigdata technologies like Hive and Spark
• Ability to understand and write complex SQL queries for development & data analysis
• Basic experience on Unix and shell scripting
• Knowledge on standard Ci/CD processes, specifically Jenkins CI/CD
• Knowledge in AI/ML, especially solution building using ChatGPT and GenAI, Github Copilot
• Databricks, Kafka, Presto, Solr, Nifi, Airflow, Sqoop

Additional Information

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% 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 95,200.00 to 134,600.00 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.