What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Data Engineer, Visa Research position at Visa?
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
As a Research Engineer at Visa Research, you will discover, lead and manage a variety of research projects. In this role, you will drive innovations by introducing technologies and solutions to deliver innovative products.
You will drive innovation from ideation to implementation. Your work will build on the foundational research in blockchain, cloud, secure multi-party computation, cryptography, and digital identity, to develop seamless, fast, reliable and secure payment solutions.
You will, in many cases, interact with different stake holders, senior executives, research scientists, software engineers and architects, as well as external parties like technology vendors, wallet providers, merchants, issuers and senior product regional managers. You will discover and propose research and development opportunities, create development plan, execute and implement the ideas.
You will be integral part of Visa Research team. You will have the opportunity and the responsibility to build the long-term vision for the payment industry and influence the direction of the research and development across Visa.
Key responsibilities include:
- Design and implement the solution in the form of prototypes and early products by collaborating with business partners, scientists and engineers
- Conduct business and technical analysis, code reviews and unit testing, and implement and produce technical documentation of research solutions for new development, system enhancements, and production support
- Contribute to delivery of high-quality solutions that conform to requirements and the architectural vision and comply with all applicable standards.
- Engage in requirements definition and clarification in collaboration with Business to ensure completeness and common understanding. Deep understanding of the business needs is important
- Create a concrete project plan including problem statement, benefit of the research and plan of work for fast iterations
- Work closely with research scientists to develop secure, optimized protocols and algorithms which advance the state-of-the-art
- Work with IP team to identify patent-able ideas in the research, as well as publication opportunities
- Champion the innovation across the organizations and industries as an expert in the subject, either by providing consulting or by contributing to technology talks and presentations
- Facilitate design reviews to provide input on functional requirements, product designs, schedules, or potential problems
- Present technical solutions, capabilities, considerations, and features in business terms. Effectively communicate status, issues, and risks in a precise and timely manner
- Make decision on complex tradeoffs/priority during the design and execution, such as tradeoff between performance and flexibility, scope and timelines, availability and scalability, etc.
- Continue to learn about the payments and technologies in Visa and across industries
Qualifications
• 2 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD, or PhD)
• Expertise in at least one or more programming languages in Linux: e.g., Java, C/C , Python, Scala, Go
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)
• Experience and/or academic background in one or more security or cryptographic research areas: e.g., design and analysis of cryptographic algorithms, secure multi-party computation, homomorphic encryption, post-quantum cryptography, system security, and/or their application to data protection and privacy, authentication, payments, blockchain and cryptocurrencies
• Excellent design and development experiences and capable of organizing a complex research project from inception to implementation
• Fast learner of new technologies
• Strong understanding of algorithms and data structures in general
• Experience working in the areas of Systems Security, Cryptography, Blockchain is a plus.
• Knowledge and experience working on Single Page Applications development, RESTful services, SQL and NoSQL databases in agile environment is a plus
• Experience and/or academic background in mobile applications development (Android or IOS)
• Experience designing and developing solutions in the cloud computing environments is a plus
• Experience of multidisciplinary research and development is a plus
• Payments industry experience is a plus
Flex Work Arrangement: This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both home and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office three days a week, Monday (Sunday in some countries where Sunday is the start of the week) and Wednesdays. Wednesdays are designated as in-office collaboration days. The third day in the office will be decided based on team needs and determined in partnership with senior leadership.
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.
