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.

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Visa Merchant and Acquirer Processing Product Development (MAPPD) team is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead a world-class team of software and systems engineers to deliver client-ready solutions by building the next generation of systems, automation and tools to support overall productivity and developer efficiencies. You will provide strategy, vision and technical leadership to the product development teams across Visa to ensure engineering teams are building products that use a foundational approach that prioritizes high availability and security.

As part of MAP PD Centralized Data Platform team, you will work on building payment transactions reporting platform that leverages Big Data tech stack including Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Scala etc., You will be responsible for mentoring top data engineering talent, keeping the team highly engaged and motivated while delivering exceptional results. Your ability to work across functions and teams will allow you to drive results and foster the right culture and environment to achieve Engineering Excellence and Innovation. You will be responsible for working with product development, quality engineering, security engineering, enterprise operations and other internal and external technology partners to deliver products for business integration & enablement.

Essential Functions

• Thorough understanding of building multi-dimensional reports with ETL jobs is very much needed. Strong understanding of Java concepts with expertise in Data structures and Algorithms is very much essential for this lead engineer role.
• You will provide technical guidance within Visa Technology Compliance Policies on tools development, automation, system stability, availability and overall integration strategies and plans.
• Own system technical design discussions with global teams to ensure business and technical requirements are understood and properly documented and implemented, including understanding customer scenarios.
• Keep leaders informed of progress and any obstacles of development, releases, and risks to Visa and to its customers.
• Apply creative thinking/approaches to determine the best solutions that further support developer efficiency.
• Partner with development and architecture teams to drive the evolution of availability, across VMs and containers.
• Establish clear, aligned goals and direction, provide candid feedback and coaching to maximize team competency, support career management and development of direct reports.
• Achieve Operational/Engineering Excellence, availability, stability, efficiency, with an availability first mindset directed towards all product development efforts.