Job Description

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging - where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world - helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.



Ready to make a global impact by industrializing AI?

Visa AI as a Service (AIaS) operationalizes the delivery of AI and decision intelligence to ensure their ongoing business values. Built with composable AI capabilities, privacy-enhancing computation, and cloud native platforms, AIaS powers and automates industrialization of data, models, and applications. Combined with strong governance, AIaS optimizes the performance, scalability, interpretability and reliability of AI models and services. If you want to be in the exciting payment and AI space, learn fast, and make big impacts, Visa AI as a Service is an ideal place for you!

This position is for a Lead Data Engineer with solid development experience who will focus on creating new capabilities for AI as a Service while maturing our code base and development processes. In this position, you are first a passionate and talented developer who can work in a dynamic environment. Your strong technical skills, leadership, problem-solving abilities, coding, testing and debugging skills is just a start. You must be willing to go beyond the routine, challenge yourself and be prepared to do a bit of everything.

You will be an integral part of the development team, often investigating new requirements, designing, debating, refactoring, implementing, and documenting continuously, in a continuous effort to provide better solutions to your consumers. You must be a self-organized individual should be flexible and willing to switch tasks based on business needs.

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.

This position will be based in Bangalore, India.

Essential Functions

Collaborate with project teams, data science teams, engineering teams and operations teams to drive the development and implementation of new Data and AI driven solutions.

Drive technical standards and best practices, and continuously improve AI Platform\'s engineered capabilities.

Architect and design of AI Platform services using open source and vendor based Distributed Computing Engines, In Memory Computing Systems, Stream Processing Systems, Data Systems and so on.

Help to coordinate the technical implementation among different teams and ensure system performance, security, scalability, and availability.

Act as the technical owner of multiple core modules of the platform, be accountable for technical quality and delivery timeliness.

Coaching and mentoring junior team members.

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

• 10+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor\'s Degree or at least 7 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 4 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 13+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor\'s Degree or 8-10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6+ years of work experience with a PhD
• 10 years or more of experience in leading and mentoring development teams, acting as a lead developer or architect with deep hands on abilities.
• Proven knowledge of successful design, architecture and development of large scale data driven, low latency, high performance real time systems.
• Deep understanding of benefits and drawbacks of different design, architectural and integration patterns.
• Strong development experience in one or more of Golang, Java, Scala, Python, Rust and C/C++
• Experience in big data and other database systems such as MySQL, Redis, Elastic etc.
• Sound knowledge of Real Time Event Driven systems based on technologies like Flink, Kafka, Spark Streaming or similar.
• Well versed with common software development tools such as Git, Maven, SBT, Jenkins, Sonarqube, Checkmarx etc.
• Ability to solve complex software development and design issues and propose, prototype and deliver effective solution.
• Passionate about delivering zero defect code, meet or exceed SLAs and have high sense of accountability for quality and timeliness of deliverables.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and navigate through ambiguity, educate and influence stakeholders.
• Strong interpersonal and effective communication skills both written and verbal.
• Knowledge of Agile methodologies, common scrum practices and tools
• Experience in payments domain and prior experience in large scale ML/AI Model Engineering is a definite plus.

Additional Information

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.

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