Staff Data Engineer

Visa Technology & Operations LLC, a Visa Inc. company, needs a Staff Data Engineer (multiple openings) in Foster City, CA to

• Design and implement large-scale data and analytical platform services leveraging database, open source, and cloud technologies.
• Understand business requirements and data assets andleverage appropriate MPP query processing technologies to solve the business use case.
• Establish metrics and analytics for monitoring and understanding of the user experiences andoperational status of the data store and analytical platform.
• Identify platform challenges and design for resilience improvements and implement measures for resilience, self-healing, and recoverability of the platform.
• Perform troubleshooting, analysis, and performance tuning for customers using the data warehouse, SQL engine, and data analytical platforms.
• Perform root cause analysis, including implementation of hardened measures that avoid and/or mitigate impact to users in case of similar or related issues.
• Build self-service capabilities in the platform to help users provision, use and analyse data in a self-served manner.
• Build analytical platform services like Data Mart Builder as a Service, Graph and Spatial Analytics as a Service, Cloud SQL Warehouse and others which provide analytical capabilities over large data sets to users in Visa.
• Actively participate in all phases of software development lifecycle: analysis, technical design, planning, development, testing/CICD, release, post production/escalation support.
• Apply the appropriate software engineering patterns to build highly scalable, available and resilient multi-tenant Platforms that can host large scale and highly critical applications.
• Take ownership of Platform and drive it to the next level of effectiveness to support current and long-term requirements.
• Builds strong commitment within the team to support the appropriate team priorities.
• Position reports to the Foster City, California office and may allow for partial telecommuting.

Requirements

Basic Qualifications:

• Employer will accept a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field and 10 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or in a related occupation.
• Position requires experience in the following:
• Query Performance Tuning and Optimization
• Linux and Windows Operating Systems
• Linux Shell Scripting
• DB2 LUW Database Implementation
• DB2 Database Partitioning Feature on Linux
• IBM Data Server Manager and IBM Database Management Console