Data Engineer Sr. Consultant level

About Us Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid. At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world. Join Visa and do work that matters – to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you. Job Description Job Summary A Senior Data Engineer at Visa plays a pivotal role within a cross-disciplined agile team, contributing to the product backlog and delivering critical features to enhance data presentation for customers and engineering teams. This position involves driving improvements to processes and practices, providing technical leadership, and mentoring others. The role requires dedication to technical excellence in code writing, team collaboration, testing, and documentation. Senior Data Engineers work alongside intermediate and senior engineers, agile team members, and consultants, demonstrating strong communication skills and a willingness to collaborate across disciplines as needed. All roles require digital fluency, including the ability to work with emerging technologies such as Generative AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot) to support everyday work. Key Responsibilities • Collaborate with stakeholders to determine requirements for product components and incorporate feedback into future designs or solution fixes. • Translate functional requirements into system designs and communicate component interactions. • Design and develop product components, refine code plans for architecture, and lead design reviews. • Participate in project estimation and review product estimations, considering delivery costs and escalating issues as needed. • Lead by example and mentor others in creating extensible, maintainable, and reusable code. • Apply debugging tools to address moderately complex issues and identify opportunities for automation. • Lead code reviews to ensure coding standards and best practices are followed. • Create complex test plans, identify tools, prioritize tests, and interpret test results to inform planning. • Proactively identify and contain defects in software code to minimize customer impact and share findings with stakeholders across product features. This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in the office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager. Qualifications Basic Qualifications • 8+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 11+ years of relevant work experience. • Experience in collaborating with stakeholders to gather and clarify requirements for product components. • Experience in translating business requirements into system designs and identifying solution spaces. • Experience in designing and developing product components, including leading design reviews. • Experience in project estimation and reviewing product estimations for delivery feasibility. • Experience in creating and implementing maintainable and reusable code. • Experience in debugging and automating solutions across products. • Experience in leading code reviews and applying coding standards. • Experience in creating and executing complex test plans and interpreting test results. • Experience in identifying and containing software defects to reduce customer impact. Preferred Qualifications • 9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 or more years of experience with a PhD. • Experience in mentoring junior engineers and providing technical leadership. • Experience in refining code plans for architecture and sharing learnings with the team. • Experience in driving security assessment processes to ensure code quality. • Experience in collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver solutions. 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.