Data Engineer Sr. Consultant level

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.

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.