Visa's Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce. We operate the world's most sophisticated processing networks capable of handling more than 65k secure transactions a second across 80M merchants, 15k Financial Institutions, and billions of everyday people. While working with us you'll get to work on complex distributed systems and solve massive scale problems centered on new payment flows, business and data solutions, cyber security, and B2C platforms.
The Opportunity:
We are looking for a talented, curious, and energetic Database Engineer who embraces solving complex challenges on a global scale. As a Database Engineer at Visa, you will be an integral part of a cross-functional development team inventing, designing, building, and testing software products that reach a truly global customer base. While building components of cutting-edge payment technology, you will get to see your efforts shaping the digital future of monetary transactions.
The successful candidate will be designing and developing complex SQL and NoSQL queries, stored procedures, and reports and performing unit and integration testing on newly developed components. The candidate will assist with troubleshooting and resolving defects during the software development life cycle and will interface directly with staff members of Development, Product Management, Project Management and Quality Assurance.
The Work itself:
- Analyze and develop applications using SQL Server 2016 and above, and Mongo 6 and above. This includes but is not limited to stored procedures, views, table maintenance, and SSIS.
- Design, develop, document and implement new functionality, as well as enhancements, modifications, and corrections to existing software.
- Create documentation and procedures for installation and maintenance.
- Work as part of a development team and establish close working relationships with stakeholders, quality assurance, architects, as well as management.
- Prepare design documents, evaluate and recommend solutions to meet user requirements, define and implement solutions.
The Skills You Bring:
- Energy and Experience: A growth mindset that is curious and passionate about technologies and enjoys challenging projects on a global scale
- Challenge the Status Quo: Comfort in pushing the boundaries beyond traditional solutions
- Language Expertise: Expertise in SQL and NoSQL
- Builder: Experience building and deploying modern services with quality, scalability and testability
- Learner: Constant drive to learn new technologies
- Partnership: Experience collaborating with Product, Test, Dev-ops, and Agile/Scrum teams
**We do not expect that any single candidate would fulfill all of these characteristics. For instance, we have awesome team members who are really focused on building scalable systems but didn’t work with payments technology or web applications before joining Visa.
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 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.
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Math, Science, Engineering, or Computer Science, Information Systems or related field.
OR
Minimum three (3) years of directly related experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Nice to have: experience with database design.
- Nice to have: hands-on experience in developing and supporting Microsoft SQL Server databases (2012 and above), hands-on experience in developing and supporting MongoDB or similar.
- Nice to have: experience with .Net CLR.
- Nice to have: familiarity with Windows operating system administration.
- Nice to have: development experience in a cross-platform, multi-tier environment.
- Ability to develop code that follows established coding guidelines.
- Strong communication skills with proven ability to present complex ideas and document in a clear and concise way.
- Quick learner, self-starter, detailed and thorough.
- Experience in all phases of software development life cycle including project management, functional requirements definition, technical design, development, testing, quality assurance, system certification, systems implementation and system validation.
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.
