Staff Data Engineer

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in 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 while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

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Visa Technology & Operations LLC, a Visa Inc. company, needs a Staff Data Engineer (multiple openings) in Austin, TX to:

• Design, enhance, and build next generation fraud detection solutions in an agile development environment.
• Formulate business problems as technical data problems while ensuring key business drivers are captured in collaboration with product stakeholders.
• Drive development effort end-to-end for on-time delivery of high-quality solutions that conform to requirements, conform to the architectural vision, and comply with all applicable standards. Responsibilities span all phases of solution development.
• Collaborate with project team members (Product Managers, Architects, Analysts, Developers, Project Managers, etc.) to ensure development and implementation of new data driven business solutions.
• Deliver all code commitments and ensure a complete end-to-end solution that meets and exceeds business expectations.
• Assist in scoping and designing analytic data assets, implementing modelled attributes, and contributing to brainstorming sessions.
• Build and maintain a robust data engineering process to develop and implement self-serve data and tools for Visa’s data scientists.
• Perform other tasks on data governance, system infrastructure, analytics tool evaluation, and other cross-team functions, as needed.
• Execute data engineering projects ranging from small to large either individually or as part of a project team.
• Ensure project delivery within timelines and budget requirements.
• Effectively communicate status, issues, and risks in a precise and timely manner.
• Position reports to the Austin, Texas office and may allow for partial telecommuting.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Analytics or related field, followed by 5 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or in a data engineer-related occupation.
• Alternatively, a Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Analytics or related field and 2 years of experience in the job offered or in a data engineer-related occupation.
• Experience must include:
  • Creating data driven business solutions and solving data problems using the following technologies: Hadoop, Spark, NoSQL and SQL.
  • Building ETL/ELT data pipelines, data quality checks and data anomaly detection systems.
  • Building large scale data processing systems of high availability, low latency, & strong data consistency.
  • Programming using SQL or Python.
  • Agile development incorporating continuous integration and continuous delivery.

Worksite: Austin, TX

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 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Travel Requirements: This position does not require travel.

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.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is $163,550.00 USD to $210,300.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.