Common Purpose, Uncommon Opportunity

. Everyone at Visa works with one goal in mind – making sure that Visa is the best way to pay and be paid, for everyone everywhere. This is our global vision and the common purpose that unites the entire Visa team. As a global payments technology company, tech is at the heart of what we do. CyberSource, a Visa company, has been and continues to be a pioneer within the e-Commerce Payment Management world. Our VisaNet network is capable of handling over 65,000 transaction messages per second for people and businesses around the world, enabling them to use digital currency instead of cash and checks.

We are also global advocates for financial inclusion, working with partners around the world to help those who lack access to financial services join the global economy. Visa’s sponsorships, including the Olympics and FIFA™ World Cup, celebrate teamwork, diversity, and excellence throughout the world. If you have a passion to make a difference in the lives of people around the world, Visa offers an uncommon opportunity to build a strong, thriving career. Visa is fueled by our team of talented employees who continuously raise the bar on delivering the convenience and security of digital currency to people all over the world. Join our team and find out how Visa is everywhere you want to be.

As the Ideal candidate you have experience with systems design for various environments and application designs. The architecture position will be an exciting opportunity focused around information technology, concerned with design, creation, deployment, and managing Visa's geospatial data architecture.

As an Architect, you should be proficient in data design with good knowledge/exposure to Big Data technologies (Hadoop ecosystem), Unix and web technologies (MVC frameworks web services etc.), and have excellent communication skills and ability to design and develop well-written, maintainable software.

This work involves development of Java software to do data processing with both RDBMS databases (Oracle), as well as Hadoop (Hive tables). Further work may involve the evolution of existing ETL processes into new Hadoop based data-pipelines. Experience with Apache Kafka, Apache Spark would be a plus and candidates with prior experience with medium to large scale Hadoop based data pipelines would be given a preference.

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering or relevant field required
  
• 7+ years’ Architect experience required
• 3+ years’ Java & Python experience required
• Proficiency with Database design and development required
• 3+ years’ Big Data (Hadoop/Solr) required
  

Responsibility level:

• Exercises independent judgment with minimal direction from supervisor
  
• Design, develop, document and implement new programs and subprograms, as well as enhancements, modifications, and corrections to existing software
  
• Develop testing and debugging routines and oversee execution
  
• Create documentation and procedures for installation and maintenance
  
• Build and maintain relationships with global and virtual teams and third parties on software development or support issues
  
• Lead development and oversee programming and testing functions to ensure that projects are securely delivered and fulfill expectations
  
• Understand the positioning of a solution within the company and to build a plan to effectively gain buy-in from all participants
  
• Identify opportunities for further enhancements and refinements to standards and processes.
  
• Lead architecture/technologist of data collection and how it is used, stored, managed and integrated within Visa’s enterprise geospatial systems

Skills required:

• Expert understanding of data
• structures, data flow, security, storage, sorting and searching, exception handling, and enterprise architecture
  
• Verbal and written communication skills, problem solving skills, customer service and interpersonal skills
  
• Experience with requirements gathering, software estimation, design, development,
  project planning using tools like Microsoft Project Plan, and Visio
  
• Expert ability to work independently and manage one’s time, and mentoring skills necessary to provide support and constructive performance feedback
  
• Experienced with Python and Shell Scripting
• Experienced database skills (oracle, DB2, mysql, etc.), working knowledge of UNIX or Linux, and understanding of ETL tools (like Ab Initio or Talend). (Preferred)
• Experience with geospatial application design and development (Preferred)
• Experience in managing, development and designing enterprise quality client server applications in Java/JEE technologies. (Preferred)
• Expert experience Hadoop development and maintenance, and know the key areas like design concepts, design patterns, performance issues, memory issues, concurrency issues, etc., for supporting JAR files for API Programming. (Preferred)
• Expert knowledge of the full software development life-cycle: from business/systems analysis, through requirements gathering and functional specification authoring, to development, testing and delivery data flow diagrams and entity relationship diagrams. (Preferred)

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