Senior Data Engineer

We are seeking a Senior Data Engineer with a strong background in data engineering. This role involves managing system requirements, design, development, integration, quality assurance, implementation, and maintenance of corporate applications.

Ø Work with product owners, business stakeholders and internal teams to understand business requirements and desired business outcomes.

Ø Assist in scoping and designing analytic data assets, implementing modelled attributes and contributing to brainstorming sessions.

Ø Build and maintain a robust data engineering process to develop and implement self-serve data and tools for Visa’s product management teams and data scientists.

Ø Find opportunities to create, automate and scale repeatable analyses or build self-service tools for business users.

Ø Execute data engineering projects ranging from small to large either individually or as part of a project team.

Ø Set the benchmark in the team for good data engineering practices and assist leads and architects in solution design.

Ø Exhibit a passion for optimizing existing solutions and making incremental improvements.

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.

Requirements

4 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 6 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, MD).
Minimum of 3 years’ experience in building data engineering pipelines.
Design and coding skills with Big Data technologies like Hadoop, Spark, Hive and Map reduce.
Mastery in Pyspark or Scala.
Expertise in any programming like Java or Python. Knowing OOP concepts like inheritance, polymorphism and implementing Design Patterns in programming is needed.
Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure is good to have.
Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to think critically.
Experience with any one ETL tool like Informatica, SSIS, Pentaho or Azure Data Factory.
Knowledge of successful design, and development of data driven real time and batch systems.
Experience in data warehousing and an expert in any one of the RDBMS like SQL Server, Oracle, etc.
Nice to have reporting skills on PowerBI/Tableau/QlikView.
Strong understanding of cloud architecture and service offerings including compute, storage, databases, networking, AI, and ML.
Passionate about delivering zero defect code that meets or exceeds the proposed defect SLA and have high sense of accountability for quality and timelines on deliverables.
Experience developing as part of Agile/Scrum team is preferred and hands on with Jira.
Understanding basic CI/ CD functionality and Git concepts is must.

Additional information

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.