Staff Data Engineer- Solution Engineering

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

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

Cybersecurity is at the beating heart of our culture. Our diligence and expertise is what makes us the undisputed leader in electronic payments.  We’ve made it our priority to create a top-tier Security Architecture team, poised to defend us against any potential cyber threats.  Cybersecurity Architecture team is looking for a Data Engineer with Hadoop admin experience. Candidate will be a part of the Visa Security Analytics Engineering team and involved with administering Hadoop-ecosystem and Data Engineering activities.

The successful candidate will be working on cutting-edge technologies to perform statistical profiling, inference, classification, clustering, and predictive analysis. As a key member of the Data Engineering team, you will be working on large datasets of Security Data and implement Data mining, Data parsing contributing to data availability building machine learning models to help derive new insights to defend against cyber-attacks.

You will be working with world-class operation teams including Cyber Defense team and Data Science team to create awesome analytics for security and other business units. You'll need to have excellent communication and cross-group collaboration skills, be able to make forward progress despite ambiguous circumstances, be a self-starter, a quick learner of new technologies and have experience in Data engineering to maintain Data Quality and Integrity. 

As a Staff Data Engineer - Solution Engineering, you will act as Service SME with Value Ownership

  • Includes the Solution, and includes In-Depth Understanding of Technical Feasibility, Work Scope, Cost, Risks, and Benefits.
  • Lead Large scale technology migrations like Open-source and Hybrid Cloud

You will help application teams design, enhance, and build solution dealing with batch and real-time data in a fast-paced environment.


Responsibilities

  • Lead Large scale technology migrations like Open-source and Hybrid Cloud
  • Deep technical knowledge in big data technical stacks and Broad technical knowledge across multiple technical stacks
  • Propose and Present Solutions/Options and align with central Visa Data Platform team.
  • Build and expand on Visa Security Analytics Hadoop to Open-Source big data Clusters within an agile collaboration environment
  • Security-first mindset to ensure that any software built will satisfy Visa’s stringent security standards
  • Ability to own complete project or a subject area delivery while leading team members in a scrum setting
  • Mentor team members, develop procedures and best practices standards.

Position Location - The position will be based at Visa's headquarters in Foster City, California.

Flex Work Arrangement - Hybrid Position - This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office two days a week, Tuesdays and Wednesdays with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% of the time based on business needs.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• 5 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 years of work
experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience
with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications

• 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 4 or more years of relevant
experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or up to 3 years of relevant
experience with a PhD
• Active development experience with Java, Python, Spark, Hive, Kafka, Kstreams, NoSql Databases,
while having core fundamentals experience of Apache Hadoop components
• Understanding best practices for Big Data (in Hadoop), data warehousing, consumer analytics,
knowledge management and key understanding of streaming and other databases
• Strong Debugging skills in Java, Scala and Hive or Spark Sql programming languages
• Advanced experience in Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark, Apache Hive, and Presto
• Deployment experience with Hadoop distributions open source
• Advanced experience with System Administration with Linux (RHEL/CentOS) including Microsoft
Active Directory, and LDAP integration
• Experience with troubleshooting Kerberos Authentication problems
• Experience with Network troubleshooting.
• Experience with RDBMS and NoSQL databases like MySQL, Hbase is a plus
• Experience in container technology like Kubernetes is a huge plus
• Experience on Hortonworks distribution or Open Source preferred
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills
• Quick learner - self-starter, detailed and thorough
• Proactive sense of urgency and can do attitude

Additional Information

Visa has adopted a COVID-19 vaccination policy to safeguard the health and well-being of our employees and visitors. As a condition of employment, all employees based in the U.S. are required to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19, unless a reasonable accommodation is approved or as otherwise required by law.

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting.  The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

Visa is an EEO Employer.  Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.  Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

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