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: Our VisaNet network processes over 13,000 transactions 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.

The Global Merchant Data Platform  team is responsible for the architecture, strategy, design and development of Visa's merchant data repository to enable insights for various different business products including Risk, Commecial and Loyalty and Offers.

Responsibilities

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• Design and build solutions for our business partners using Big Data technologies. Responsibilities include the creation of conceptual approach, technical analysis, causal analysis, design, development and support activities.
• Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture.
• Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements.
• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, data quality, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc.
• Build logical data models using the technology relevant for the business use case.
• Work closely with the Project Management Office and various business stakeholders to drive and/or facilitate development of requirements, specifications and use cases for assigned projects.
• Collaborate with business partners on user acceptance testing.
• Work with limited direction, usually within a complex environment, to drive delivery of solutions and meet service levels

Required skills

• Bachelor or Master Degree in Computer Science, or other related technology discipline
• 8+ years of experience in design and development of large-scale data platforms and services
• Strong experience on Hadoop stack (MapReduce, Spark, HDFS, Hive, HBase , Sqoop etc.)
• Strong knowledge of data structures and algorithms
• Expertise in SQL
• Experience with Java or Scala-Spark
• Experience with atleast one scripting language (Python etc.)
• Process oriented with strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Experience with visualization tools such as Tableau is a plus
• Experience with statistical tools such as R is a plus
• Previous Agile/Scrum experience - a plus
• Prior experience in analytics in merchant domain is a plus

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