Company Description
Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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.
When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.
Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.
Job Description
Lead System data architect will be part of Visa Payment Platform architecture team and will be reporting to Sr. Director of Data Architecture.
As a system data architect, you will help develop and enhance data strategy, data governance guideline and best practice across the organization. You will work with various payment product engineering teams, application architects, product teams to build and enhance long lasting, maintainable, end to end data ecosystems with consistency, availability, and scalability.
Essential Functions:
Lead logical and physical data model design for RDBMS databases in a distributed and active-active environment.
Partner with application architects and product teams to translate requirements to data needs with security, regulation compliance and audit in mind.
Enhance and promote data architecture standards, best practices and data patterns to benefit long term maintainability, performance, reliability, and scalability.
Drive continuous data technology transformation to minimize technical debt.
Work with product teams and engineering teams to design end to end data flow using various ETL tools available to Hadoop.
Serve as a subject matter expert resource to engineering and devOps teams to help with solutions to complex issues and be able to articulate the benefits and compromises of different approaches.
Research and POC new data technology.
Explore new AI tools to improve productivity.
Serve as a subject matter expert resource to engineering and devOps teams to help with solutions to complex issues and be able to articulate the benefits and compromises of different approaches.
Research and POC new data technology.
Explore new AI tools to improve productivity.
This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications
10+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 7 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 4 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 13+ years of relevant work experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working as Database Architect or Data Architect
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or other technology field. Typically requires 10+ years of experience in delivering enterprise-class, mission-critical, commercial, and scalable products, at least 3 of which were in the role of an architect or a lead developer
- Understand scalability challenges and capable of designing and developing horizontally scalable, resilient, and performing-under-load systems.
- Understand the data challenges of a real time, large volume distributed system.
- Experienced with at least one of the RDBMS: PostgreSQL or MySQL or Oracle and savvy with database partitioning and performance tuning.
- Strong interpersonal, facilitation along with effective communication (both written and verbal) skills and the ability to present complex ideas in a clear, concise way. Strong ability to influence and develop relationships with key partners.
Additional Information
Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.
Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.
Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.
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.
Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.
U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 163,800.00 to 213,000.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.
