Sr. Data Engineer

Payments has become a very active/hot area in the last couple of years, creating a strong demand for innovation. This will be a very exciting area in the next 5 to 10 years. Not only is VISA a leader in the payment industry and has been for a long time, but it is also quickly transitioning into a technology company that is fostering an environment for applying the latest technology to solve exciting problems in this area.

Visa AI as a Service (AIaS)

This position is for a Staff Data Engineer

You will be an integral part of the development team, sometimes investigating new requirements and design and at times refactoring existing functionality for performance and maintainability, but always working on ways to make us more efficient and provide better solutions to our end customers. The role is for a self-organized individual with knowledge of web application and web service development. The candidate will perform hands-on activities including design, documentation, development and test of new functionality. Candidate must be flexible and willing to switch tasks based on team's needs.

This position will be based in Bangalore, India.

Essential Functions

• Collaborate with project teams, data science teams and development teams to drive the technical roadmap and guide development and implementation of new data driven business solutions.
• Drive technical standard and best practices, and continuously improve AI Platform engineering scalability.
• Architecture and design of AI Platform services including Machine Learning Engines, In Memory Computing Systems, Streaming Computing Systems, Distributed Data Systems and etc., in Golang, Java, and Python.
• Coordinate the implementation among development teams to ensure system performance, security, scalability and availability.
• Coaching and mentoring junior team members and evolving team talent pipeline.

This is a hybrid position.

Qualifications

• 3 plus or more years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 5 years of relevant work experience
• Experience working on distributed microservices systems.
• Development experience with Golang/Rustlang (alternatively a strong background in C/C++ or Java)
• Experience in real-time streaming systems (Spark/Flink/Kafka)
• Skilled with Docker & Kubernetes and hands on Ansible/CI CD pipelines
• Experience using and configuring operational tools such as Splunk, Humio, Prometheus & Grafana.
• Proven knowledge of successful design, architecture and development using Big Data Hadoop, J2EE and Spark with large data volumes and transaction systems
• Possesses a deep understanding of benefits/drawbacks of different integration patterns
• Ability to solve complex software development/design issues
• Ability to write clean, coherent code following established coding guidelines
• Strong interpersonal, facilitation, and effective communication skills (both written and verbal) and the ability to present complex ideas in a clear, concise way
• Experience developing as part of Agile/Scrum team is preferred
• Passionate about delivering zero defect code that meet or exceed the proposed defect SLA and have high sense of accountability for quality and timeliness of deliverables
• Ability to deliver on multiple projects and manage priorities based on changing directions
• Highly driven, resourceful and results oriented
• Demonstrated ability to lead and navigate through ambiguity
• Past experience in Payments knowledge is preferred