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.



Visa processes 100s of millions of payment transactions per day and has one of the world's most valuable data assets. The Value Added Services organization has the mission of unleashing the power of data to drive global commerce.

We are developing and executing a shared strategic vision for Loyalty and Marketing services and products that enable Visa to be the world-leading data-driven payments company. As a Principal Data Engineer, you will be part of a world-class team of Engineers to define, drive and execute on this vision.

Are you skilled at turning hard numbers into compelling stories and useful strategic insights? Do you solve complex data challenges with creative flair? Put those skills to work answering strategic questions for one of the world's most respected and innovative payments companies.

• Mentor, coach, lead and motivate a high performing team of senior engineers, lead engineers, testers, managers to set clear priorities to achieve product/technology goals and KPIs.
• Drive the coordination, organization and execution of qualitative and quantitative decisions and advise senior management on insights and recommended actions.
• Strong and well-honed ability to influence, motivate and collaborate with a wide variety of partners and stakeholders.
• Work cross functionally to proactively ensure Visa technologies are capable of handling emerging or future business requirements
• Extensive cross-organizational collaboration playing a crucial role in interfacing with various technology teams and business stakeholders to identify requirements, converting them to functional specs, prioritizing and driving execution using agile methodologies
• Lead feedback/influence high end technical designs into core product strategy, roadmap and go to market.
• Drive internal proof of concept initiatives. When needed, quickly design and implement a prototype of a system or component with a proper architecture, and then hand over or lead a small group of developers to finish.
• Establish best practices in client application development using engineering excellence, for incidents/change/problem management in a global 24X7 high volume, critical Tier 1 production environment for 190K+ Suppliers/Buyers/Issuers with Visa.
• True adherence to Visa Leadership Principles (VLPs) with excellent communication, storytelling and presentation skills.

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both home and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office three days a week, Monday (Sunday in some countries where Sunday is the start of the week) and Wednesdays. Wednesdays are designated as in-office collaboration days. The third day in the office will be decided based on team needs and determined in partnership with senior leadership.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• 15 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or 12 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 8 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications

• Mentor, coach, manage and motivate a high performing team of senior engineers, to achieve goals and KPIs.
• Proven knowledge of successful design, architecture and development using Big Data Hadoop, J2EE and Spark with large data volumes and transaction systems
• Possesses a deep understanding of benefits/drawbacks of different integration patterns
• Continuous delivery and Dev Ops experience - infrastructure automation, monitoring, logging, auditing and security implementation and practices
• Knowledge of NoSQL databases (e.g. HBASE and Cassandra) technologies is a plus
• Experience in Java language, Spring, Hibernate, Angular, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, and HTML5/ CSS3
• Experience in code development using Eclipse/MyEclipse, JetBrains IntelliJ or any major Java ID
• Experience in API Development using SOAP or REST, JSON and XML
• Experience with GIT/Stash, Maven and Jenkins
• Experience in SQL and/or PL/SQL
• Experience in MySQL, Oracle or IBM DB2 on AIX, Unix or Linux platforms
• Experience in Tomcat is preferred
• Experience with SOAPUI or Postman preferred
• Ability to solve complex software development/design issues
• Ability to write clean, coherent code following established coding guidelines
• Strong interpersonal, facilitation, and effective communication skills (both written and verbal) and the ability to present complex ideas in a clear, concise way
• Experience developing as part of Agile/Scrum team is preferred
• Passionate about delivering zero defect code that meet or exceed the proposed defect SLA and have high sense of accountability for quality and timeliness of deliverables
• Ability to deliver on multiple projects and manage priorities based on changing directions
• Highly driven, resourceful and results oriented
• Demonstrated ability to lead and navigate through ambiguity
• Past experience in Payments products is preferred

Additional Information

Visa has adopted a COVID-19 vaccination policy. As a condition of employment, all employees based in the country where this job is located are required to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19, unless a reasonable accommodation is approved or as otherwise required by law.