Data Engineer - Sr. Consultant Level

Visa Visa · Fintech · Austin, TX

Visa is seeking a Senior Consultant Data Engineer to contribute to the design, implementation, and optimization of their data platform, ensuring reliability, cost efficiency, and scalability. The role involves building high-performance data services and pipelines, supporting production operations, and collaborating with teams to deliver end-to-end data products.

What you'd actually do

  1. Contribute to the design and evolution of the data platform, ensuring reliability, cost efficiency, and scalability
  2. Implement and optimize high-performance data services and pipelines (batch and streaming) for large-scale workloads
  3. Support production operations for file- and event-based systems: monitoring, incident response (on-call), and continuous improvement to meet SLAs
  4. Participate in code and design reviews, promoting best practices in testing, security, and observability
  5. Collaborate with partner teams and internal customers to deliver end-to-end data products

Skills

Required

  • Golang or Python
  • Cloud computing skills (Azure/AWS)
  • Modern streaming processing
  • Data platform tooling: Terraform (IaC), Docker and Kubernetes (production) and Airflow (or similar orchestration)
  • Observability and reliability mindset: Grafana, CloudWatch (logs, metrics, traces), on-call participation, SLA awareness
  • Strong SQL skills
  • Version control and CI/CD: Git/GitHub, pipelines (e.g. Codefresh) or similar
  • Clear communication
  • Adaptability
  • Self-management
  • Critical thinking
  • Collaboration