Machine Learning Engineer - Sr. Consultant

The Data and Artificial Intelligence Platform group is a key component of Visa's Technology organization that provides the enabling technology and processes to handle Visa's data assets and deliver valuable information, products, and services to customers. Our team delivers secure, high-quality, and easy-to-use Visa core data assets as a service, together with reliable and scalable data platform as a service, to enable Visa and our partners to rapidly and efficiently innovate data-driven business products and services to lead the digital payment industry. Our application development is on the cutting edge of technology. We are innovative leaders within our industry!

Our platform operationalizes the delivery of AI and decision intelligence to ensure ongoing business values. Built with composable AI capabilities, privacy-enhancing computation, and cloud native platforms, the platform automates the updates to data, models, and applications.

What We Offer:

Exciting Challenges: We work at scale solving hard problems across the entire stack. We offer limitless opportunity to learn, leverage and lead in this ever-growing field.

Teamwork and Fun: Each of us brings diverse and rich experiences to the team, enabling us to deliver much more and have fun at the same time.

Fantastic people: With strong leadership, you will have the opportunity to learn, collaborate and deliver together with some of the best and most creative minds in the industry.

This team is growing fast! Join us and be an integral part of the group that is at the leading edge of pioneering AI.

Essential Functions:

As a Senior Consultant Engineer, you will assist in conducting aggregations with consideration to metadata management, GenAI use cases, Building taxonomy dependencies, and availability across products. You’ll have the opportunity to contribute to both strategic and tactic planning and execution to continuously advance the platform's vision and mission. You will build tools and complex automation processes that assist in transforming, managing, accessing, deploying, and monitoring data in real time.

• Providing junior engineers with technical expertise and informal guidance when interpreting pipeline designs and defining stories for a product.
• Translating functional and non-functional requirements into architecture designs and communicating to more junior Data Engineers how the components will interact across systems.
• Architecting solutions with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery in mind
• Participating in negotiations with product and business owners to determine feasibility of technical design and confirm what is needed for the roadmap to be successful.
• Helping with setting up technical roadmaps, working with development managers and teams to identify and resolve technical challenges, and working with different products and data science teams to streamline the feature request and model onboarding.
• Collaborating with other teams (e.g., Product owners, business partners) to identify and clarify business requirements and determine business needs.

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

Basic Qualifications:
• 10+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 8 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 5 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 11+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:
• 10 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 9 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 in Computer Science or similar field.
• Expert in at least one of the following: Golang, Java, or C/C++
• Mentoring and project leadership experience
• Active development experience with Java, Python, Spark, Kafka, Kstreams, NoSql Databases, while having core fundamentals experience of RedisDB.
• Expertise in standard methodologies for GenAI, Metadata repository, Taxonomy and building Knowledge graphs, knowledge management and key understanding of structured and unstructured data.
• Strong Debugging skills in Java, Scala and Python, Redis, K8S.
• Expertise in developing Webservices / API with standards including Security guidelines and related patterns (REST, gRPC)
• Expert in developing large scale, enterprise class distributed system or subsystems that require high availability, low latency, & strong data consistency computing
• Expert in understanding Data Governance flows on who and how the data can be accessed and consumed.
• Expert with distributed caching technologies like Redis
• Experience developing proper metrics instrumentation in software components, to help facilitate real-time and remote troubleshooting/performance monitoring.

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.