Staff SW Engineer – Risk Applications

You may have noticed that payment has become a very hot area
in the last couple of years. Given the strong demands and rapid innovation,
this will be a very exciting area in the next 5 to 10 years. VISA is a strong leader
in the payment industry, and is in a fast pace to transition to a technology
company. For a payment system to work well, the risk management and fraud
detection techniques are very critical. These techniques and systems can
benefit from big data, data mining, statistics, cloud, and many other advance
technologies. In VISA, we have all of these.

If you want to be in the exciting payment space, learn fast
and make big impacts, VISA Risk and Authentication group is an ideal place for
you!

The Risk and Authentication development group is responsible
for building critical risk and authentication products, applications, and
services in VISA. This includes idea generation, the design, development, and
testing of products, applications, and services that provide Visa clients with
solutions to detect, prevent, and mitigate fraud for Visa and Visa client
payment systems.

This position is ideal for an experienced SW engineer who is
passionate about solving challenging business problems and building applications
that provide an excellent user experience. You will be an integral part of the Risk
and Authentication development team focusing on design and build of software
solutions that leverage data to solve business problems. Sometimes you will be working on brand-new
software solutions, and at other times, you may be refactoring existing
functionality for high performance/availability and maintainability but always
working on ways to provide better solutions to our customers.

The role is for a self-motivated individual with expert
software engineering skills, extensive knowledge of Database systems (RDBMS) and
experience with Big Data systems integration and technologies. The candidate
will be extensively involved in hands-on activities including POCs, design,
documentation, development and test of new functionality. Candidate must be
flexible and willing to switch tasks based on team’s needs.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with project team members (Product
  Managers, Architects, Analysts, Developers, Project Managers, etc.) to ensure
  development and implementation of new data driven business solutions.

• Drive development effort End-to-End for on-time
  delivery of high quality solutions that conform to requirements, conform to the
  architectural vision, and comply with all applicable standards. Responsibilities span all phases of solution development
  including:

  • Engagement in requirements definition and clarification in collaboration with Business to ensure completeness and common understanding; deep understanding of the business needs is important.

  • Collaboration and alignment with architects and senior technologists on architecture and design

  • Providing solid cost estimates for effort and time

  • Creating design documentation

  • Facilitating design reviews to provide input on functional requirements, product designs, schedules, or potential problems.

  • Facilitating code reviews with team members and third party vendors.

  • The review and assessment of impact of proposed scope changes on assigned deliverables

  • Work with other engineering teams to facilitate a common approach to continuous integration that includes build automation, test automation, and deployment automation.

• Collaborate with senior technical staff and PM to identify, document, plan contingency, track and manage risks and issues until all are resolved

• Present technical solutions, capabilities, considerations, and features in business terms. Effectively communicate status, issues, and risks in a precise and timely manner.

• Supervision of 1 or 2 less experienced team members may occur from time to time.

• BS/MS (preferred) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field with 4 or more years of experience.

• Experience with Object Oriented software development and building scalable, robust, and high-performing applications and services.

• Expert Java developer. Other languages like c/c++ desirable.

• Strongly motivated and/or experienced in test driven development and test automation.

• Experience with Continuous Integration and Automated Test technologies such as Jenkins, Subversion, Maven, Hudson, Git, Selenium, Chef desirable.

• Knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL and ORM
  technologies (JPA2, Hibernate),Mongo DB

• Experience in the Spring Framework and SOA /REST applications.

• Strong analytical skills coupled with excellent problem solving ability.

• Ability to present complex ideas in a clear, concise way.

• Experience creating or integrating with web services in a failure tolerant system design

• Experience in a devops organization with Scrum methodology

• Candidate must be able to proficiently multi-task and be able to work independently or in a team environment

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.