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CTC Undisclosed Job Location Canada Experience 8 - 11 yrs

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Staff Data Engineer - Payment Systems Risk

Software Development/Engineering

Job Description and Responsibilities

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. For a payment system to work well, the risk techniques, performance, and scalability are critical. These techniques and systems can benefit from big data, data mining, artificial intelligence, machine learning, cloud computing, & many other advance technologies and in VISA, we have all of these. If you want to be in the exciting payment space, learn fast, and make big impacts, Payment Systems Risk team @ VISA is an ideal place for you!

This position is for a Staff Data Engineer with solid development experience who will focus on creating new capabilities in the Risk space while maturing our code base and development processes. In this position, you are first a passionate and talented developer that can work in a dynamic environment as a member of Agile Scrum teams. Your strong technical leadership, problem-solving abilities, coding, testing and debugging skills is just a start. You must be dedicated to filling product backlog and delivering production-ready code. You must be willing to go beyond the routine and prepared to do a little bit of everything.

You will be an integral part of the development team, sometimes working on new requirements and design to build new product or service from ground up and at times making changes to an existing system to add new features or 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-motivated individual who can lead a small team of engineers. 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 Foster City, CA and reporting to Director of Software Engineering. If this sounds exciting, we want to chat and tell you more about our work culture and environment and see if this will be a good fit for both of us.

Essential Functions

Collaborate with project team members (Product Managers, Architects, Analysts, Software Engineers, Project Managers, etc.) to ensure development and implementation of new data driven business solutions

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

Engagement in requirements definition and clarification in collaboration with Business to ensure completeness and common understanding; deep understanding of the business needs is important.

Create architecture and design documentation

Facilitating design reviews to provide input on functional requirements, product designs, schedules, or potential problems

Work with other engineering teams to facilitate a common approach to continuous integration that includes build automation, test automation, and deployment automation

Collaborate with senior technical staff and PM to identify, document, plan contingency, track and manage risks and issues until all are resolved

Present technical solutions, capabilities, considerations, and features in business terms. Effectively communicate status, issues, and risks in a precise and timely manner

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

8 years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or at least 5 years of relevant work experience with a Masters Degree, or a PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in creating data driven business solutions and solving data problems using a wide variety of technologies such as Hadoop, Hive, Spark, MongoDB, NoSQL, as well as traditional data technologies like RDBMS, MySQL a plus

Experience developing large scale, enterprise class distributed system or subsystems that require high availability, low-latency, & strong data consistency computing

Ability to program in one or more scripting languages such as Perl or Python and one or more programming languages such as Java or Scala

Experience in Graph processing technologies and graph databases such as GraphX and Neo4j is a plus

Experience with data visualization and business intelligence tools like Tableau is a plus

Experience with Continuous Integration & Development and automation tools such as Jenkins, Artifactory, Git etc.

Experience with Agile and Test-Driven Development methodology

Experience with creating highly scalable, highly available systems

Strong analytical skills with excellent problem-solving ability

Ability to present complex ideas in a clear, concise way