Lead SW Engineer - Iaas, Data Platform

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• You may have noticed that payment has become a very active/hot area in the last several years. Given the strong demands and innovation this will be a very exciting area in the next 5 to 10 years. VISA is clearly a very strong leader in the payment industry and is in a fast pace of technology transformation. For a payment system to work well advance technologies such as data platform big data data mining machine learning cloud etc. are critical. In VISA we have all of these. The Data Platform (DP) Department is in the center for many of these technologies and development. The Data Platform Department is a key component of Visas Technology organization that provides an enriched and valuable ecosystem of data platform and data services to drive innovation for our partners and clients within Visa and globally. Data is the most valuable asset in Visa. The Data Platform Department is dedicated to systems and services to make data secure high quality rich fast and easy to use therefore enabling Visa with the ability to leverage its data asset in an effective and timely manner to maximize technology/business development and differentiate Visa from others in the payment industry. The department maintains tens of petabytes of data supporting over 100 services for various internal lines of business and external clients. Our technical stack has two layers: Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Data as a service (DaaS). The Infrastructure as Services team is part of Visas Data Platform division. Our mission is to provide the enabling technology and processes to manage Visa data assets and deliver Value Added Information Products and Services to our customers. We are working very closely with PaaS team. 30% of the time team spend on development 30% - on support 30% - on administration and 10% - on improving business processes. Data Platform organization is building the Next Generation Data processing engines with cost-effective and distributed applications on commodity hardware using best-in-class technology components. Building next generation applications require collaboration with exceptional group of highly skilled Data architects software engineers DevOps engineers payment experts and infrastructure architects. This is an exciting time for a data professional to join our team to drive technology transformation. A successful candidate needs to be highly technical with architect experience and have demonstrated ability to lead. Success in this role will requires working effectively with a matrix organization within Data Platform and across other departments within Visa. Prior experience must include leadership in engineering for mission-critical large scale data systems for analytic and operational use. Examples include real-time data collection systems large scale data pipelines warehousing cloud technology like Hadoop and Spark business intelligence predictive analytics and near real-time data systems. We desire a candidate who have ability to act as SRE (Site Reliability Engineer); demonstrated success in building partnerships with the key stakeholders of the other technology functions such as operations support system administration security development and engineering is required. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background in cloud technologies big data web technologies large scale distributed platforms etc. and is a thought leader is very familiar with the up to date development of the industry in these areas written and verbal communication skills and software solution delivery. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines

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