Software Engineer- Sr. 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

We are looking for talented, curious, proactive, energetic, and passionate individuals who embraces challenges and is a proven problem solver.  As a Visa Sr. Staff Software Engineer as part of our Merchant & Acquirer Product Development Business Tools team, you will be an integral part of a cross-functional development team inventing, designing, building, and testing software assets. You will collaborate with product owners, architects, test engineers, dev-ops, operations, and other team members from the product ideation stage to production deployment and support of highly functional, secure, scalable, and robust software solutions. 

The role involves extensive hands-on activities. Here are the essential functions –

• Manage and mentor a team of talented engineers.
• Collaborate with business units and technical staff globally to define requirements.
• Evaluate technical options and provide recommendation on scope and scale of effort required to develop an end-to-end solution.
• Take ownership and lead the Software development responsibility for multiple components of the platform.
• Develop and certify features for release.
• Manage configurations, builds, branching, and deployment issues related to delivered code.
• Develop development frameworks and tools and apply innovative ideas to develop scalable and secure software solution.
• Write utilities and automation tools using Java, REST.
• Communicate status frequently in daily Scrum.
• Participate in cross-group and internal customer feature demos.
• Document process, designs and solutioning approach

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:
• 10+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 7 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 4 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 13+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:
• 12-15 years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 8-10 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 6+ years of work experience with a PhD
• 10+ years of experience in Software Development.
• Extensive hands on experience in API development using Java using the REST standards.
• Experience with Core Java, Advanced Java or equivalent programming language.
• Experience in using IDE tools such as Eclipse, IntelliJIdea, Spring Tool Suite or equivalent tools.
• Experience in creating high-level development strategy and unit test plan including defining test data needs, identifying performance testing needs, coming up with functional, integration/E2E testing strategies.
• Experience with GIT/Stash, Maven and Jenkins
• Experience in SQL and/or PL/SQL
• Experience in MySQL, Oracle or IBM DB2 on AIX, Unix or Linux platforms
• Experience in Tomcat is preferred
• Experience with SOAPUI or Postman preferred
• Ability to solve complex software development/design issues
• Ability to write clean, coherent code following established coding guidelines
• Extensive experience with Build, maintenance and enhancement of Test Automation Framework for API testing.
• Leadership: Ability to lead solutions and work with teams to achieve excellence
• Curiosity: A desire to seek clarity of requirements and why things are done a certain way
• Creativity: The ability to take a list of needs and insights and come up with other innovative ideas
• Enthusiasm: A passion to understand customers and deliver better products and services to them
• Strategic focus: Skill to understand big picture and stay focused on task to achieve goals
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