Lead Data Engineer- Data Serving

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

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 Lead Data Engineer in Data and Artificial Intelligence Platform (DAP), you will lead a team of data engineers based in Foster City, California, USA. You are a technology leader, with experience in building solutions for business users, leading versatile teams 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 take a data-driven approach towards reducing the Risk and Fraud in Visa ecosystem by building a comprehensive understanding of our consumers. You will guide and mentor the team to develop platforms, services and solutions on time and within budget. You will work with other development teams globally to collaborate on the solutions.  You will collaborate with Project Managers, Product Managers, architects, SMEs, and businesspeople across the company on high-impact data-related initiatives. This position will report to a Sr. Director of Data-as-a-Services org 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 of engineers to deliver high-quality, robust, and scalable solutions on time and within the budget.
• Lead the design and development of a scalable, secure, reliable and performant systems that meet the business requirements.
• Instill best practices for software development. Drive engineering excellence including automation, quality, efficiency, and productivity.
• 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.
• Ensure resource availability to support deployment activities in various environments.
• Work collaboratively with senior management, architects and senior development staff to develop broadly acceptable solutions.
• This role requires you to code at least 60% of the time in your preferred coding language

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 3 days a week.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• 10 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 8 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters/ MBA/JD/MD) or at least 3 years of work experience with a PhD.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 8-10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6+ years of work experience with a PhD.
• 15 or more years of hands-on software development experience, including architecture design, coding, data processing, data packaging and serving.
• Proficient using languages like Java, Scala, and Python. Strong on elegant coding, can write very solid prototypes or core components quickly.
• Technical background and a rich experience in dealing with large scale data and related issues in the areas of data processing, data quality, data management, data analysis, distributed processing, high availability, statistical, data mining, machine learning, handling batch and streaming data and operational excellence of production systems.
•  Proven 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.
•  Experience working with Graph databases and RESTFul APIs.

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 194,600.00 to 282,150.00 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.