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Senior Consultant - Data Engineering & Architecture (Data Platforms Team)

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9 days ago
Foster City, CA, USASenior
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$181k - $289k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Partner with product managers, architects, and stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable data platform solutions.
  • Design, develop, and enhance distributed data processing systems for payment, settlement, authorization, and analytics workloads.
  • Build and maintain reliable, high-performance data pipelines moving large volumes of data across platforms and business domains.
  • Contribute to data platform architecture, data delivery capabilities, and Master Data Management solutions.
  • Lead technical design discussions, architecture reviews, engineering decisions, code reviews, and mentoring.
  • Improve system reliability, observability, automation, performance, and operational excellence.
  • Troubleshoot complex production issues and automate manual processes to reduce operational risk.
  • Develop testing strategies and quality assurance practices for reliable data solutions.
  • Address data quality, performance, scalability, governance, compliance, and security challenges.
  • Contribute to project planning, estimation, delivery, and long-term platform health.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of relevant experience with a bachelor’s degree, 5+ years with an advanced degree, 2+ years with a PhD, or 11 years of relevant experience.
  • Strong knowledge of SQL, NoSQL, graph databases, and RESTful APIs.
  • Expert-level experience with Spark, Hive-based technologies, and Big Data development tools and platforms.
  • Extensive hands-on programming experience with Java, Scala, or Python.
  • Experience leading large-scale, end-to-end projects from concept through production delivery.
  • Strong understanding of algorithms, data structures, and computer science fundamentals.
  • Experience with relational and non-relational data modeling.
  • Preferred experience applying Generative AI and Large Language Models in data engineering.
  • Preferred experience collaborating with data scientists and machine learning teams.
  • Preferred experience designing and managing data pipelines with tools such as Apache Airflow.
  • Preferred proficiency with Git and CI/CD pipeline implementation.
  • Experience mentoring engineers and providing technical leadership.
  • Experience supporting data quality, lineage, governance, compliance, and security requirements.

Benefits

  • Estimated US salary range of $180,600.00 to $289,300.00 per year, with potential bonus and equity eligibility.
  • Benefits may include Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and a Wellness Program.
  • Employees must work in the office at least three days per week.
  • The role requires 5–10% travel.
  • Work hours vary according to department needs.

Tech Stack

Apache AirflowApache HiveApache SparkGitJavaPythonScalaSQL

Categories

Data Engineering
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About Visa

10,000+ employees

Visa builds and operates a global digital payments network that connects consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and governments. It earns fees for processing card transactions and offering risk, data, and value‑added services through VisaNet and products like tokenization and tap‑to‑pay. Founded in 1958 and headquartered in Foster City, California, Visa is a public company (NYSE: V) serving clients in more than 200 countries and territories.

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