About the job
Sr. Data Engineer (Spark, BigData Hadoop, 4+ yrs)
Bangalore, India
Full-time
Job Family Group: Technology and Operations
Company Description
Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over
259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between
consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government
entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year.
Our mission is to connect the world through the most
innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network,
enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive
while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone,
everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.
Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us
today and experience Life at Visa.
Job Description
Payments has become a very active/hot area in the last
couple of years, creating a strong demand for innovation. This
will be a very exciting area in the next 5 to 10 years. Not only
is VISA a leader in the payment industry and has been for a
long time, but it is also quickly transitioning into a technology
company that is fostering an environment for applying the
latest technology to solve exciting problems in this area. For a
payment system to work well, the risk techniques,
performance, and scalability are critical. These techniques
and systems can benefit from big data, data mining, artificial
intelligence, machine learning, cloud computing, & many other
advance technologies and in VISA, we have all of these. If you
want to be in the exciting payment space, learn fast, and make
big impacts, VISA is an ideal place for you!
This position is for a Senior Data Engineer with development
experience who will focus on creating new capabilities in the
Risk space while maturing our code base and development
processes. In this position, you are first a passionate and
talented developer that can work in a dynamic environment as
a member of Agile Scrum teams. Your strong technical
leadership, problem-solving abilities, coding, testing, and
debugging skills is just a start. You must be dedicated to
filling product backlog and delivering production-ready code.
You must be willing to go beyond the routine and prepared to
do a little bit of everything.
You will be an integral part of the development team,
sometimes working on new requirements and design to build
new product or service from ground up and at times making
changes to an existing system to add new features or
refactoring existing functionality for performance and
maintainability, but always working on ways to make us more
efficient and provide better solutions to our end customers.
You will perform hands-on activities including design,
documentation, development, and test of new functionality.
You must be flexible and willing to switch tasks based on
team’s needs.
This position will be based in Bangalore, India and reporting to
Director of Software Engineering. If this sounds exciting, we
want to chat and tell you more about our work culture and
environment and see if this will be a good fit for both of us.
Essential Functions
• Collaborate with project team members (Product Managers,
Architects, Analysts, Software Engineers, Project Managers,
etc.) to ensure development and implementation of new data
driven business solutions
• Engagement in requirements definition and clarification in
collaboration with Business to ensure completeness and
common understanding, deep understanding of the business
needs is important.
• Understand business requirement and create design
documentation
• Facilitating design reviews to provide input on functional
requirements, product designs, schedules, or potential
problems
• 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
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.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications
• 4 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree
or Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)
• Experience in creating data driven business solutions and
solving data problems using a wide variety of technologies
such as Hadoop, Hive, Spark, MongoDB, NoSQL, as well as
traditional data technologies like RDBMS, MySQL a plus
• Ability to program in one or more scripting languages such
as Perl or Python and one or more programming languages
such as Java or Scala
• Experience with data visualization and business intelligence
tools like Tableau is a plus
• Experience with or knowledge of Continuous Integration &
Development and automation tools such as Jenkins,
Artifactory, Git etc.
• Experience with or knowledge of Agile and Test-Driven
Development methodology
• Strong analytical skills with excellent problem-solving ability
