Lead Software Engineer- Senior Consultant

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.

Job Description

This position is ideal for an experienced Software engineer who is passionate about solving challenging business problems and building applications that provide an excellent user experience. You will be an integral part of Developer Tools team focusing on design and build of software solutions that leverage data to solve business problems.

Responsibilities:

• Work independently, drive projects end to end and provide guidance to junior engineers

• Write software code that complies with design specifications and meets security and Java/J2EE best practices that will meet development and support requirements

• Evaluate cutting edge technologies, drive towards adoption, create proof-of-concept and frameworks

• Participate in all stages of development from design through implementation

• Understand current posture of product ecosystem and specifics for VAS PD's solutions

• Serve as subject matter expert for the major components and application domains.

• Work on building automated build pipeline, continuous integration and continuous deployment and test automation frameworks with tools such as Git/Stash and Jenkins

• Design and develop the utilities and automation tools using java, j2ee, spring, rest, python, groovy, maven, sql, git.

• Manage configurations, builds, branching and deployment issues related to delivered code.

• Ensure, through automation, that code quality tools are run on all software prior to release.

• Demonstrated proficiency in troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, application design, and implementing large components for enterprise projects

• Collaborate with team members in design reviews, development and code reviews

• Identify opportunities for future enhancements and refinements to standards, best practices and development methodologies

• Implement and enforce best practices for code promotion across the various environments.

• Strong SDLC background in Agile/Iterative practices

• Create documentation and procedures for development, deployment and maintenance

• Provide technical guidance, knowledge transfer and mentorship to engineering peers as required and lead technical staff responsibilities.

• Triage and provide technical solutions to environment and build/deploy related issues

• Review implementation plans and participate and even be able to manage product installations.

• Validate successful introduction of newly deployed products and feature sets to the market.

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.

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.

Preferred Qualifications:
9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor 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

Additional Information

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

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 an