Data Engineer at Visa in Foster City, CA

Job description

About Us Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid. At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world. Join Visa and do work that matters – to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you. Job Description Overview: With data being the fuel that drives our future - our strategies, policies, and business successes around data will define our future growth prospects. Unlocking the value available through the innovative use of data on behalf of consumers, businesses, and communities is key to our future. With our ongoing commitment to Visa’s Data Values and the responsible use of data, we at Visa have a bold vision to continue to grow and accelerate our data-related businesses and capabilities. Led by Visa’s first Chief Data Officer, the Global Data Office coordinates high-impact, complex, company-wide projects related to data business strategy, critical investments, policy development, and marketplace execution. Working closely with Visa’s Chief Privacy Officer, the Technology organization, the wider data community, and the full set of Visa’s global lines of business, the Global Data Office is evolving Visa’s data-related work with momentum and enthusiasm. Driven by its commitment to trusted use of data, Visa is seeking enthusiastic leaders who are change-agents and passionate about the future of data around the world. About the Team: We are a Data Engineering team within GDO, responsible for designing, building, and optimizing data pipelines and platforms that power Visa’s analytics, and decisioning capabilities. Our focus is on data quality, scalability, and reliability, enabling seamless integration of complex datasets across regions. By partnering with product and business teams, we ensure that data-driven solutions deliver measurable impact and support Visa’s global innovation strategy. About the role: As a Data Engineer, you will play a critical role in designing and delivering scalable, high-quality data solutions that enable intelligent decision-making across Global Data Engineering capabilities. You will leverage your expertise to design and implement large-scale data pipelines and integrated data solutions using the latest technologies, ensuring efficient data storage, processing, and presentation. You will also build and utilize advanced data modeling frameworks and adopt modern architectural patterns such as Medallion Architecture to deliver well-structured, efficient, and future-ready data solutions. Key Responsibilities: Build and manage large scale ETL processes to generate card level aggregated attributes. Ability to build modular and reusable codes considering the configurability and scalability while adhering to low-level design Perform thorough unit testing of each development task and document the test results using standard defined templates Build, schedule, and manage DAGs in Apache Airflow efficiently Monitor data processing tasks in the Data pipelines in Airflow Ensure quality control of data assets, reconciling data loaded across different stages in the data pipeline Utilize strong data analytics skills to identify, discuss, and promptly fix data issues Apply debugging skills to quickly rectify execution errors, ensuring minimal delays and impact on business operations Collaborate and communicate with stakeholders for requirement understanding and clarifications Maintain the highest level of quality and detail-oriented approach in daily tasks Adhere to agile principle and actively participate in all the scrum ceremonies. Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Ma