Associate Data Engineer

Visa; Foster City (CA); On-site; USD 102,000 - 158,000; Full time

Job summary

Visa is seeking a Data Engineer in Foster City, CA to support design, implementation, and maintenance of data pipelines enabling secure, scalable technology solutions. You'll work hands-on with code, data, and cross-functional teams to translate requirements into robust data architecture.

Role emphasizes adherence to security standards, regulatory requirements, and best practices, with opportunities to contribute to tooling and automation and to learn about market trends shaping payments

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or 3+ years relevant work experience.
• Experience with data pipelines and processing systems.
• Ability to work with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Attend meetings with stakeholders to understand data ecosystem needs.
• Interpret technical requirements and implement component designs.
• Create and implement code across components with best practices.
• Participate in code review processes and apply feedback.
• Develop tools and automation for transforming and managing data.

Skills

Data pipelines

Stakeholder collaboration

Code development

Unit testing

Data extraction

Education

Bachelor's degree or 3+ years relevant work experience

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.

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

Data Engineers in this role support the design, implementation, and maintenance of data pipelines and processing jobs to enable secure, scalable, and high-quality technology solutions. They work hands-on with code, data, and modern tools, collaborating with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions. Responsibilities include adhering to best practices, security standards, and regulatory requirements, and contributing to the innovation process by applying knowledge of market trends and industry dynamics.

All roles require digital fluency, including the ability to work with emerging technologies such as Generative AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot) to support everyday work.

Key Responsibilities

• Attend meetings with stakeholders to learn about requirements and understand data ecosystem, security, privacy, and retention needs.
• Interpret technical requirements and execute component designs provided by senior engineers.
• Create and implement code across assigned components, applying coding patterns, guidelines, and best practices.
• Participate in code review processes, gather feedback, and apply changes to owned aspects of code or design.
• Conduct unit testing and support testing code for one component in a common testing environment.
• Contribute to the development of tools and automation processes for transforming, managing, accessing, deploying, and monitoring data processes.
• Collaborate with team members to create queries, extract and compile raw data, and apply basic modification techniques to transform data.
• Review and elevate alerts to maintain a data pipeline, assist with investigations, and implement basic solutions to minimize failures.
• Follow troubleshooting guidance for reviewing, addressing, and fixing basic problems flagged by testing, and elevate complex issues as needed.

Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree, OR 3+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• 2 or more years of work experience.
• Experience in attending stakeholder meetings to gather requirements.
• Experience in interpreting technical requirements and executing component designs.
• Experience in creating and implementing code across assigned components.
• Experience in participating in code review processes and applying feedback.
• Experience in conducting unit testing and supporting code testing in a common environment.
• Experience in developing tools and automation processes for data management.
• Experience in collaborating with team members to extract, compile, and transform data.
• Experience in reviewing and escalating alerts to maintain data pipelines.
• Experience in troubleshooting and resolving basic issues in data pipelines.
• Experience in contributing to the innovation process by applying knowledge of market trends and industry dynamics.
• Experience in applying coding patterns, guidelines, and best practices.
• Experience in using tools to investigate vulnerabilities in software code.
• Experience in collaborating with team members to merge data into distributed systems, products, or tools.

Information for US Applicants

For roles located in the US, the estimated salary range for this position is $101.800,00 to $ 158.100,00 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.

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 protect veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.