Staff Data Engineer

Visa•Foster City, CA

6h•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Staff Data Engineer, you'll join our Value Added Services – Digital Marketing & Engagement organization. You will help design, enhance, and build our Visa data token platform within an agile development environment, collaborating with colleagues who will support and challenge you daily.

Requirements

5 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelors 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

Nice To Haves

6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors 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
Demonstrated leadership in delivering high-quality, large-scale, enterprise-class applications.
Solid experience in big data engineering, with knowledge of Hadoop, Apache Spark, Python, and SQL.
Expertise in Java, REST APIs, and container-based technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
Proficiency in creating and managing large-scale data pipelines and machine learning models.
Experience developing ETL processes, maintaining Spark pipelines, and productizing AI/ML models.
Proficient in technologies like Kafka, Redis, Flink, TensorFlow, Triton, and AWS services.
Skilled in Unix/Shell or Python scripting and scheduling tools like Airflow and Control-M.
Strong experience with UI technologies (Redux, React.js, HTML5, CSS4, jQuery/JavaScript).
Familiarity with Agile development, TDD, CI/CD, and various databases.
Proven track record of building reliable, scalable, and operable applications.
Ability to manage component security analysis and collaborate with security teams.
Strong work ethic, focus on immediate goals, and proven experience as a technical leader.
Passion for mentoring and helping juniors grow professionally.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and a strong team player.

Responsibilities

Lead projects involving the full-stack development of real-time scoring services, RESTful APIs, and container-based distributed services.
Spearhead the development of next-generation software incorporating machine learning and deep learning technologies.
Ensure services are highly available, secure, scalable, and resilient.
Drive innovation to differentiate our products and accelerate time-to-market delivery.
Utilize containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, and expertise in Java, Spring Boot, React, and both relational and non-relational databases.
Apply your data engineering skills with Hadoop, Spark, and Scala.
Represent the team in various technical forums and build deep partnerships with product management.
Analyze business requirements to architect highly secure, robust, and scalable solutions.
Lead internal proof of concept initiatives and quickly design and implement prototypes.
Champion efforts to design and implement components of our global transaction processing systems.
Follow and create software best practices and processes.
Mentor team members and create an atmosphere of mutual accountability.
Play a key role in meetings and discussions with cross-functional and non-technical teams.
Collaborate with customers to understand their requirements and build solutions that deliver real value.
Architect, design, and implement secure, robust, and scalable solutions.
Drive proof of concept initiatives and lead implementation.
Mentor team members and foster a culture of mutual accountability.
Engage in meetings and discussions with cross-functional teams.