Senior Data Engineer

  • Full-time
  • Job Family Group: Product Development

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.

Job Description

To ensure that Visa’s payment technology is truly available to everyone, everywhere requires the success of our key bank or merchant partners and internal business units. The Global Data Science group supports these partners by using our extraordinarily rich data set that spans more than 3 billion cards globally and captures more than 100 billion transactions in a single year. Our focus lies on building creative solutions that have an immediate impact on the business of our highly analytical partners. We work in complementary teams comprising members from Data Science and various groups at Visa. To support our rapidly growing group we are looking for data engineers who are equally passionate about the opportunity to use Visa’s rich data to tackle meaningful business problems.

This position will be part of VCA (Visa  Consulting & Analytics) function in building and maintaining global data assets and engineering solutions. We are looking for expertise in data visualization for internal and external reporting that will be delivered to hundreds of clients. The Data Visualization Manager takes responsibility for collecting client requirements, understanding business context, developing and maintaining data visualizations. They are also responsible for designing our internal process and frameworks and catering for variations across various products, while maintaining a consistent feel and standards. The position is based at Visa's offices in Bangalore, India.

Essential Functions

  • Exposure working with Global teams & Fortune 500 companies and possess strong experience working directly in client facing roles.
  • Execute and manage data visualization processes in tools like Tableau and Power BI, including associated processes like data provisioning, access controls and usage tracking.
  • Build and maintain several internal BI reports using Visa’s design principles. Contribute to creation of standards and techniques that can be leveraged in other parts of Visa.
  • Basic understanding of ETL processes, including data quality testing, data provisioning. Some exposure to ML/AI is desirable.
  • Define and build technical/data documentation and experience with code version control systems (e.g. git). Ensure data accuracy, integrity and consistency
  • Should have strong problem-solving capabilities and ability to quickly propose feasible solutions and effectively communicate strategy and risk mitigation approaches to leadership.
  • Find opportunities to advance Visualization capabilities to include web technologies
  • Find opportunities to create, automate and scale repeatable visualization products for Visa Consulting and Analytics.
  • Collaborate with Data Engineering teams in North America and other Global regions to production
  • Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal skills needed to effectively communicate technical insights and recommendations with business customers and leadership team.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

6-8+ yrs. work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 5+ years of work experience with a Master's or Advanced Degree in an analytical field such as computer science, statistics, finance, economics or relevant area.
Working knowledge of Hadoop ecosystem and associated technologies, (For e.g. Apache Spark, MLlib, GraphX, iPython, sci-kit,Pandas etc.)

Preferred Qualifications

9+ yrs. work experience with a Master's or Advanced Degree in an analytical field such as Computer Science, Statistics, Finance, Economics or relevant area.
Technical skills:
• Exceptional ability to conceptually understand business problem and propose/design appropriate visualization approaches. Ability to leverage Visa’s standards and guidelines in design.
• Strong eye and skill for functional dashboard design and visual storytelling.
• Strong experience in reviewing and refining visualizations collaboratively with internal and external clients.
• Strong hand-on experience in building dynamic dashboards using visualization Tools like Tableau, Power BI, D3 and exposure to code version control systems (git).
• Experience with SQL for extracting, aggregating, and processing big data Pipelines using Hadoop, EMR & NoSQL Databases.
• Understanding of complex, high volume, multi-dimensional data, as well as machine learning models based on unstructured, structured, and streaming datasets.
• Experience in writing and optimizing efficient SQL queries with Python, Hive, Scala handling Large Data Sets in Big-Data Environments.
• Experience with Unix/Shell or Python scripting and exposure to Scheduling tools like Oozie and Airflow.

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.
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