Director - Data Engineering (15+ years' experience, Skills: - Python, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, GenAI)
Director - Data Engineering (15+ years' experience, Skills: - Python, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, GenAI)
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Job Description
Payments Industry is a very exciting and fast-developing area with a lot of new and innovative solutions coming to the market. With strong demand for new solutions in this space it promises to be an exciting area of innovation. VISA is a strong leader in the payment industry and is rapidly transitioning into a technology company with significant investments in this area.
If you want to be in the exciting payment space learn fast and make big impacts Ecosystem & Operational Risk technology which is part of Visas Value-Added Services business unit is an ideal place for you!
In Ecosystem & Operational Risk (EOR) technology group the Payment Fraud Disruption team is responsible for building critical risk and fraud detection and prevention applications and services at Visa. This includes idea generation architecture design development and testing of products applications and services that provide Visa clients with solutions to detect prevent and mitigate fraud for Visa and Visa client payment systems.
We are in search of inquisitive creative and skillful technologists to join our ranks. We are currently looking for a Director of Software Engineering who will take the lead and manage several strategic initiatives within our organization.
The right candidate will possess a strong software engineering background with demonstrated leadership experience in driving technical architecture design and delivery of products and services that have created business value and delivered impact.
Essential Functions
Responsible for building enterprise scale applications leveraging Data Engineering AI/ML and GenAI technologies.
Oversee the end-to-end product lifecycle from ideation research design development testing launch to post-launch evaluation.
Foster an environment of innovation encouraging the team to bring forward new ideas and solutions
Act as a key liaison between the product team executive leadership and other stakeholders ensuring transparency and alignment.
Responsible for the overall development life cycle of the solution and manage complex products with significant bottom-line impact
Work with geographically distributed global teams
Work with product managers in developing a strategy and road map to provide compelling capabilities that helps them succeed in their business goals
Work closely with senior engineers to develop the best technical design and approach for new product development
Instill best practices for software development and documentation assure designs meet requirements and deliver high quality work on tight schedules
Project management: prioritization planning of projects and features stakeholder management and tracking of external commitments
Identify opportunities for further enhancements and refinements to standards and processes
Hire retain and grow world class engineering talent
Mentor junior team members develop departmental procedures and best practices standards
Strong Negotiation Skills: You will be a distinguished ambassador for product development: collaborating negotiating managing tradeoffs and evaluating opportunistic new ideas with business partners
This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.
Qualifications :
Basic Qualifications:
15 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or with an Advanced Degree
Requires 15 or more years of experience at least 3 years in leading engineering teams
Experience leading design and development of data pipelines and analytics platforms
Experience leading product development & delivery of AI/ML solutions applied to real-world problems
Experience leading design and development of mission-critical secure reliable systems
Experience leading or knowledge of GenAI product development with deep expertise in LLM integration and prompt engineering
Experience leading delivery across multiple technologies: Python Java/J2EE Apache Kafka Apache Flink Hive MySQL Hadoop Spark Scala design patterns test automation frameworks
Excellent understanding of algorithms and data structures
Excellent problem solving and analytics skills. Capable of forming and advocating an independent viewpoint
Strong experience with agile methodologies
Excel in partnering with Product leaders and technical product managers helping define joint product/technology roadmaps & driving prioritization
Experience driving continuous improvements to processes / tools for better developer efficiency and productivity
Demonstrated ability to drive measurable improvements across engineering delivery and performance metrics
Demonstrated success in leading high performing multi-disciplinary and geographically distributed engineering teams. Demonstrated ability to hire develop and retain high-caliber talent
Must demonstrate longer-term strategic thinking and staying abreast with latest technologies to assess whats possible technically
Strong collaboration and effective communication with focus on win-win outcomes
Additional Information :
Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin sexual orientation gender identity disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Employment Type
Full-time
