As the world's leader in digital payments technology, Visa's mission is to connect the world through the most creative, reliable and secure payment network - enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive. Our advanced global processing network, VisaNet, provides secure and reliable payments around the world, and is capable of handling more than 65,000 transaction messages a second. The company's dedication to innovation drives the rapid growth of connected commerce on any device and fuels the dream of a cashless future for everyone, everywhere. As the world moves from analog to digital, Visa is applying our brand, products, people, network and scale to reshape the future of commerce. 

At Visa, your individuality fits right in. Working here gives you an opportunity to impact the world, invest in your career growth, and be part of an inclusive and diverse workplace. We are a global team of disruptors, trailblazers, innovators and risk-takers who are helping drive economic growth in even the most remote parts of the world, creatively moving the industry forward, and doing meaningful work that brings financial literacy and digital commerce to millions of unbanked and underserved consumers.

You're an Individual. We're the team for you. Together, let's transform the way the world pays.

The Data division is part of the Visa's technology organization. The division is responsible for maintaining Visa's data assets and provides value added products and services to drive innovation for our partners and clients, within Visa and globally. The Data Platform Department is dedicated to provide systems and services to make data secure, high quality, rich, fast, and easy to use, therefore enabling Visa with the ability to leverage its data asset in an effective and timely manner to maximize technology/business development and differentiate Visa from others in the payment industry.

A successful candidate is who thrives in a fast-paced environment, has a customer obsession, thinks big, and knows to simplify.  The candidate will leverage sound architectural principles to implement effective and efficient solutions for our users.

The ideal candidate has strong technical background in big data processing and have a good written and verbal communication skills. The ideal candidate has production experience building data applications, is passionate about performance, testability, and maintainability, cares about quality of code, and loves to learn new technologies.

Responsibilities:

• Define and Deliver high quality code for features and bug fixes.
• Enhance and support production systems
• Follows established software development guidelines and Visa security standards
• Build and maintain relationships with the agile team, the user community, architects and support teams to implement effective solutions
• Identify opportunities for further enhancements and refinements to standards and processes
• Keep up with industry in terms of technology and best practices and help drive innovation internally.
• Support and coach junior engineers.

Basic Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in the complete product life cycle – research, design, development, delivery and maintenance with a Bachelor's Degree in Comp.Science or related field or at least 3 years of experience with a Master's degree in Computer science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent field
• Minimum 3 years’ experience with hands-on development with the following; Java, Python, Scala, Shell scripting.
• At least 2 years’ experience with the following Big Data Stack: Hadoop, Kafka, Spark

Preferred Qualifications

• 7+ years of industry experience, 5+ years working with Big Data technologies such as Hive, YARN, Spark, Map-Reduce, NoSQL databases and HBase
• Excellent Java and Python programming skills. 
• Experience working in an Agile environment with good software development practices such as CI/CD, code reviews and test automation
• Strong problem-solving skills and willingness to learn
• Strong attitude toward getting things done while maintaining regard for code quality
• Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills
• Experience working with systems dealing with petabytes of data is a plus
• Experience working with Graph Databases is a plus
• Experience as a team lead is a plus

Travel Requirements This position requires the incumbent to travel for work 5% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements This position will be performed in an office setting.  The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers, and reach with hands and arms.

EEO Statement 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.