Sr. Manager - Data Engineering

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

Essential Functions:

• Responsible for building a strong data engineering team for diverse corporate use cases including pricing and billing
• Grow and expand the team with an eye toward diverse and forward-pushing skills that span data engineering, experimentation, and building of resilient solutions
• Provide technical leadership responsibilities and improve engagement in leading and inspiring teams in their performance and responsibilities
• Engage in technical and functional discussions with all engineering teams with strong interpersonal and organizational skills to effectively manage multiple work streams.
• Lead strong partnerships with key stakeholders including product management, engineering, finance, and operations.
• Lead feedback and influence high end technical designs into core platform strategy, roadmap and adoption.
• Establish best practices in application development using engineering excellence and operational excellence
• True adherence to Visa Leadership Principles (VLPs) with excellent communication, storytelling, and presentation skills.
• Build an inclusive team culture that is innovative and collaborative.

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 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor 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

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
• Proven high-impact player with an impressive track record of execution and driving changes through innovation and in a collaborative and thoughtful manner
• Strong experience in building large scale data processing pipelines, and managing technical application development using SOA and distributed technologies, preferably in the pricing and billing domain of financial and payment industry.
• Extensive technical background with hands-on skills on Hadoop, Spark, SQL and Java
• Proven delivery leadership in a complex organization including systems rationalization and architectural options triaging experience to optimize performance and drive down costs
• Experience in design thinking process to understand users, challenge assumptions, redefine problems and create innovative solutions to prototype and solve business problems
• In depth knowledge in agile software development practices using JIRA and CI/CD tools
• Significant experience building and leading dynamic and geographically distributed technology organizations in a highly matrixed environment
• Proven ability in delivering large scale global projects, on time and within budget.
• General business skills including budget administration, planning, negotiation skills, and project management
• Bachelor Degree in CS or related engineering fields with minimal 12 years of proven IT/development experience

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 and computers.