Staff Data Engineer- Data Ingestion

  • Full-time
  • Job Family Group: Technology and Operations

Company Description

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

Job Description

You may have noticed that payment has become a very active/hot area in the last several years. Given the strong demands and innovation, this will be a very exciting area in the next 5 to 10 years. VISA is clearly a very strong leader in the payment industry, and is in a fast pace of technology transformation. For a payment system to work well, advance technologies such as data platform, big data, data mining, machine learning, cloud, etc. are critical. In VISA, we have all of these. The Data Platform Department is in the center for many of these technologies and development.

The Data Platform team is a key component of Visa's Technology organization that provides an enriched and valuable ecosystem of data platform and data services that drive innovation for our partners and clients, within Visa and globally. Data is the most valuable asset in Visa.

The Data Platform Department is dedicated to develop advanced technology (e.g. Cloud, Machine Learning and Big Data), systems and services to make data secure, high quality, rich, fast, and easy to use, therefore enabling Visa 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. The department maintains over 100 petabytes of data supporting over 100 services for various internal lines of business and external clients.

The Data as a Service (DaaS) Data Assets Group in the Data Platform Department develops techniques, platforms, systems, and services to ensure the data pipeline development and services are efficient, high quality, rich, and easy to use.

Qualifications

Responsibilities :
•Translate business requirements and source system understanding into technical solutions using Big Data & Java etc.
•Work with business partners directly to seek clarity on requirements
•Define solutions in terms of components, modules and algorithms
•Design, develop, document and implement new programs  and subprograms, as well as enhancements, modifications, and corrections  to existing software.
•Create technical documentation and procedures for installation and maintenance. 
•Write Unit Tests covering known use cases using appropriate tools
•Integrate test frameworks in development process
•Refactor existing solutions to make it reusable and scalable
•Work with operations to get the solutions deployed
•Take ownership of production deployment of code
•Collaborating with and/or lead cross functional  teams, build and launch applications and data platforms at scale, either for revenue generating or operational purposes
•Lead a small team
•Come up with Coding and Design best practices
•Thrive in self-motivated internal-innovation driven environment
•Adapting fast to new application knowledge and changes

Qualifications

•Bachelors in Computer Science, or Information Systems or related field 
•9+ years of experience in data technologies and applications development
•5+ years of experience in Hadoop using Core Java Programming, Spark, Kafka , Hive, Pig scripts, Sqoop on Linux/Unix environment
•Agile & waterfall development experience
•Expertise in Object Oriented Programming Language - Java
•Strong algorithms and data structures
•Ability to generate creative and innovative solutions for QA challenges and constraints
•Strong knowledge of database concepts and UNIX/LINUX
•Expert level SQL skills for data manipulation (DML) and validation (DB2)
•Experience using version control and bug tracking tools
•Result oriented with strong analytical and problem solving skills
•Work independently with minimal supervision
•Comfortable learning new technologies quickly
•Experience leading a small team good to have
•Excellent team player
•Strong interpersonal and communication skills

Additional Information

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