Director Data Engineering
Director Data Engineering
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Overview
Visa Inc. is at the forefront of the GenAI revolution aiming to establish itself as the worlds leading datadriven payments company. We are seeking a handson Director of Data Engineering Data Science and GenAI/ML. This role is crucial to the development and management of our Loyalty and Marketing platforms while leveraging advanced AI/ML technologies. You will be part of the Value Added Services Digital Marketing & Engagement organization and will provide technical leadership and oversight to software architects and engineers while partnering with your product partners on large and complex projects for Customer Engagement Loyalty and Marketing domains.
Responsibilities
Leadership & Management
- Hire retain and develop highperforming diverse engineering and data science teams.
- Invest in the career development of employees with a strong focus on mentorship and training.
- Lead with a clientfocused mindset across organizations.
- Mentor and motivate highperforming teams of engineers data scientists and architects to achieve critical business goals and KPIs.
Technical Leadership
- Provide technical leadership and oversight to software architects engineers and data scientists.
- Drive the architecture for key crossteam/crossproduct development projects.
- Establish software development and data science best practices via examples and shipping code.
- Ensure engineering and data science excellence (quality security performance scalability availability resilience).
Collaboration & Strategy
- Collaborate with Product Office Operations & Infrastructure Cybersecurity Client Support and other Product Development teams to develop complete solutions.
- Drive the coordination organization and of qualitative and quantitative decisions.
- Guide the delivery of strategic projects aligned with business strategy on innovative payment acceptance and integrated commerce management.
- Collaborate closely with the global product teams in marketing and loyalty to define strategy and communicate a clear vision for the team.
Development & Innovation
- Deliver products with complex technical interdependencies by collaborating with geographically dispersed teams.
- Develop architectures that are inherently secure robust scalable modular APIcentric and global.
- Optimize the use of Visas Platforms & Solutions.
- Make a positive impact on Visas Loyalty and Marketing team fostering innovation and exploring new technologies such as Gen AI/ML.
Engineering & Data Science Excellence
- Drive down technical debt and manage costs within product and organization budgets.
- Establish best practices in client application development and data science using engineering excellence.
- Apply architecture and data science best practices that help increase velocity.
- Handle routine activities such as coordination coaching mentoring recruiting budgeting planning delivery quality partner relationships performance metrics operations efficiency and service level management.
Additional Skills
- Strong experience in continuous delivery and DevOps including infrastructure automation monitoring logging and security implementation.
- Proven knowledge of successful design architecture and development of complex systems.
- Advanced understanding of AI/ML model development and deployment.
- Ability to solve complex software development/design issues.
- Demonstrated ability to deliver on multiple projects and manage priorities based on changing directions.
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 23 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 and a Bachelors degree OR 13 years of relevant work experience
Preferred Qualifications
12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 810 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters MBA JD MD) or 6 years of work experience with a PhD
Proven experience managing software development and data science teams for enterpriselevel distributed applications using technologies such as Java Microservices Hadoop Spark and AI/ML frameworks.
Deep technical experience in Java/J2EE Microservices Big Data Hadoop ecosystems AI/ML frameworks and open systems.
Technical experience with Big Data Technologies focusing on Spark with Java or Scala.
Expertise with AI/ML frameworks (TensorFlow PyTorch etc. Java/J2EE Spring Spring Boot caching streaming pipelines.
Experience in deploying and managing software and AI/ML models in public Cloud technologies.
Familiarity with Agile methodologies and software development lifecycle principles.
Experience in API Development using SOAP or REST JSON and XML.
Experience with GIT/Stash Maven and Jenkins.
Strong interpersonal facilitation and effective communication skills.
Proven ability to lead and navigate through ambiguity.
Payment industry experience is a plus.
Handson experience writing clean coherent code and developing AI/ML models following established guidelines.
Additional Information :
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.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
