Staff SW Engineer

At Visa, the Finance Technology organization enables Visa revenue growth through automated billing solutions. This includes managing system requirements, evaluating cutting-edge technologies, design, development, integration, quality assurance, implementation, and maintenance of corporate revenue applications. The team works closely with business owners of these services to deliver custom developed solutions, as well as implement industry leading packaged software.

The candidate will work in the Revenue & Pricing team, providing technical and functional expertise for building the Revenue Automation flows. As a designer and developer, you will focus on the development of the batch processes/tools built on Spark and Python, as well as other technology platforms. The position will also help resolve production-related issues as needed.

The successful candidate is expected to be a design, coding and configuration expert, and will be responsible for assisting in advancing the engineering craft of the team related to architecture, design, code quality, scalability, and CI/CD. The selected candidate will be responsible for development and support of applications built on Python and Hadoop technologies and various other frameworks mentioned below.

The candidate should enjoy working on diverse technologies and functionally complex data centric applications, should be excited to take initiatives to solve complex business problems, and get the job done while taking on new challenges. You should thrive in team-oriented and fast-paced environments where each team-member is vital to the overall success of the projects.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead the design and development of solutions for revenue Automation. Responsibilities include requirement analysis, solution design, technical feasibility and data analysis, code development, code reviews, testing and support activities.
• As a Lead Developer take the responsibility to own and support the productionized Application.
• Deeply understand existing automation projects that are in Production to support future enhancements (from code and end to end solution perspective).
• Drive the development of new Revenue automation projects by building quick POCs and converting ideas into real products.
• Collaborate closely and independently with business and technical stakeholders to develop high quality products and services that meet business requirements and expectations while applying the latest available tools and technology.
• Ensure quality and completeness of all deliverables with hands-on testing and leadership in quality assurance practices.
• Ensure the developed applications meet security compliance criteria and maintain SOX compliant.
• Have a passion for delivering zero defect code and be responsible for ensuring the teams deliverables meet or exceed the prescribed defect SLA.
• Troubleshoot and resolve time sensitive production issues (technical and data related), perform root cause analysis, and identify near term workarounds and permanent solutions.
• Present technical solutions, capabilities, considerations, and features in business terms. Effectively communicate status, issues, and risks in a precise and timely manner
• Mentor junior team members for best practices, code quality and optimized testing, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
• Productively work with teams in multiple geographical locations and time zones.
• Develop and maintain trusted and valued relationships with the team, customers, and business partners through active engagement, collaboration, effective communication, quality, integrity, and reliable delivery
• This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's 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, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Extensive Hands-on experience and expertise in Hadoop technologies, majorly Spark and Hive.
• Proficient in Python and Unix Scripting with a deep understanding of best practices and advanced techniques.
• Proven Experience with building complex SQL for extracting, aggregating, and processing big data Pipelines using Hadoop & NoSQL Databases.
• Extensive Experience in independent Data modeling and design with a history of implementing robust and scalable solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to ensure quality for data driven applications with comprehensive test planning and execution.
• Expertise in configuring CI/CD pipeline using industry standard tools such as GIT, Jenkins, Maven etc. is needed.
• Hands on experience in Version control using SVN, Git, Bitbucket.
• Experience in designing and building advanced automation solutions to automate, streamline and optimize manual business processes involving complex data.
• Experience in Tableau report development and configurations will be a big plus.
• Experience in Java, Spring Boot and Angular technologies will be a plus.
• Exceptional analytical skills, problem solving abilities and the capability to respond resourcefully to complex business requirements, time sensitive issues and system functionality related queries.
• Strong interpersonal, facilitation, and leadership skills along with effective communication (both written and verbal) skills and the ability to present complex ideas clearly and concisely.
• Business domain knowledge in the areas of financial management including Pricing, billing and revenue reporting is a significant advantage.
• Ability to work effectively with teams in multiple geographical locations and time zones is a must have.