Senior Consultant Software Engineer

The Digital and Mobile Enablement Technology Organization in Issuing Solutions at Visa is looking for a talented software developer to implement the platform for our digital and mobile products as we advance Visa’s Payment Digitization. This Individual will be a part of a talented Engineering team, applying expertise to create and deliver outstanding features to scale our Issuers and partners.

The role is a self-organized Software Engineer Lead with solid Java and web service development experience.

In this position, you are first and foremost a passionate and talented developer that can work in a dynamic environment as a member of Agile Scrum teams.

You will contribute to the success of our Digital and Mobile Enablement Platform that delights the customer with innovative consumer facing mobile and digital products.

Must be able to coordinate and manage input from business and technology stakeholders across the enterprise and be responsible for the design and execution of large-scale technology initiatives.

Your strong technical leadership, problem solving abilities, software programming/coding, testing and debugging skills are just a start.

You must be dedicated to filling product backlog and delivering production-ready code in three to five week sprints.

You must be willing to go beyond the routine and prepared to do a little bit of everything.

You will be assigned tasks to contribute and deliver strategic breakthrough technologies and complex systems.

You will work closely with product teams, back end, front and development teams and partner with cross functional teams from testing to security.

You will mentor team members, perform peer code reviews and challenge the status quo.

You will engage with architects to create best in class solutions.

The successful candidate will be working on cutting edge payment solutions, responsible for delivering high quality code with precision and accountability.

Key Responsibilities

• Engage in technical design of solutions that are based on use cases and business requirements
• Interpret business requirements into technology solutions
• Develop high quality and robust software components that delight the customers
• Complete proof of concepts and other technical evaluations of technologies, designs and solutions
• Engage development leads and architects (both enterprise and domain) to ensure that overall Enterprise Architecture is inclusive of all stakeholder viewpoints and are vetted to ensure that artifacts supports, reflects, advances and integrates as intended.
• Ensure inclusion of Visa's business vision, current business environment (internally and externally) and technology and industry trends to enable results that drive Visa's business.
• Lead Development projects
• Mentor team members
• Perform Peer code reviews

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

• 8+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 11+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• BS degree in Computer Science/Computer Engineering or other related fields with a minimum of 8 years of experience Java and web service development -OR-
• MS degree in Computer Science/Computer Engineering or other related fields with a minimum of 5 years of experience Java and web service development.
Skills
• Experience with web services standards and related technologies (HTTP, Spring, XML, JSON, REST, WS*, AXIS, JERSEY)
• Strong foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms and software design optimized for mobile platform
• Experience programming in Java, J2EE
• Solid understanding of database technologies and SQL and JPA.
• Preferred Experience in payments integration and / or online ecommerce shopping and / or Payment gateways.
• Proven problem solving skills and an ability to respond resourcefully to new demands, priorities and challenges
• Strong dedication to test automation and Test Driven Development
• Strong interpersonal and facilitation skills along with effective communication (both written and verbal) skills.
• Ability to convey development concepts related to network, application, and systems - to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience as a Development project lead
• Ability to mentor others
• Ability and desire to learn new skills and take on new initiatives.
• Proven ability to work and have fun in a team environment
• Experience working in an agile development life cycle
• Familiarity with tools like Jira or similar
• Working knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes or CI/CD (Jenkins)