Data Scientist

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in 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 while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

About Global Commercial Payments Platform

We are working on multiple technology stacks and want to add a highly motivated Engineer to our Commercial Payments organization in Foster City, CA. Visa's Commercial Payments organization is responsible for managing Visa's B2B Payment Global adoption on Cross-Border funds movement, innovation agenda and the management of strategic partnerships with critical financial institutions. This group is responsible for defining and building the Non-Card based payment innovation and product for Visa Inc. Globally. This includes:

• Distributed-Ledger based Cross border payment platform
• Near time Settlement 
• Enterprise ID stamping to create a digital identity for corporate entities
• Hyperledger chain-code development
• End-to-End Payment eco-system 
• Analytics and Data visualization

Essential Functions:

• Work on emerging technologies, building distributed applications
• Collaborate with project team members (Product Managers, Architects, Analysts, Software Engineers, Project Managers, etc.) to ensure development and implementation of new data driven business solutions.
• Drive development effort End-to-End for on-time delivery of high quality solutions that conform to requirements, conform to the architectural vision, and comply with all applicable standards. 
• Collaborate with senior technical staff and PM to identify, document, plan contingency, track and manage risks and issues until all are resolved
• Present technical solutions, capabilities, considerations, and features in business terms. Effectively communicate status, issues, and risks in a precise and timely manner.
• Partner with Product on implementation strategy.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in the office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager. 

Basic Qualifications:

2+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 5+ years of relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications:

3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)

MS in Computer Science or related field

2+ years of experience with distributed software development

Hands-on experience with all aspects of software development: data, server-side, UI, and open-source software.

Experience with Linux, Open source, C++ or Java, client-server apps

Expertise in at least two of the following: Java / Go / Scala / Python,

Knowledge of developing Data Pipeline, including Ingestion, Transformation, Extraction etc. is expected

Experience in large Data Pipeline handing is a big plus

Familiar with container strategies and ecosystems such as Docker, Kubernetes

Knowledge of cloud architecture and scalable solutions including orchestration

BlockChain technical expertise is a plus

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.