Visa

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Job Description

Visa Consulting and Analytics (VCA) is the consulting arm of Visa, and drives tangible, impactful results for clients. We help our clients, and their businesses improve performance and profitability by providing data-driven solutions, actionable insights and the latest economic trends. With deep payment expertise and proprietary analytics models, our consultants, data scientists and economists are committed to delivering insights that driver better business outcomes across customer journeys.

We’re looking for a talented Analyst, Big Data Engineer to join the Intelligence and Data Solutions team in VCA for Latin America region, where you’ll collaborate with data experts to build and automate scalable data pipelines, operationalize analytics, and drive impactful business solutions. You’ll leverage cutting-edge tools to unify data and machine learning workflows, implement robust data quality frameworks, and develop powerful insights engines that fuel smarter decisions. If you’re passionate about data and unlocking its business value, energized by solving real-world payment challenges, and excited to help shape the future of payments, we want to hear from you!

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with data teams to operationalize analytics solutions and unlock business value.
• Automate and standardize workflows developed by data scientists.
• Leverage DevOps to create end-to-end streamline data apps and pipelines.
• Review and manage data pipelines, branching, and deployment process.
• Work with partners on requirements and implementation designs of data solutions.
• Implement data quality framework at scale using open-source technologies.
• Create data monitoring dashboards with real-time notifications.
• Understand VisaNet data and platform ecosystem to deploy fully automatic data applications.
• Unify data engineering and machine learning engineering pipelines.
• Apply spark optimization techniques to production jobs to accelerate data prep.
• Document process, designs, test results, and analysis in collaborative platforms.
• Ability to articulate complex architectures to non-technical audiences, management, and leadership.
• Continuously research industry best practices and technologies.
• Evangelize end to end automation and standardization across the organization.
• Partner with functional areas, and regional and global teams to leverage the breadth and depth of Visa’s resources.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• 2+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 5+ years of relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications

• 3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)
• Minimum of bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
• Qualification in Data Analytics, Data Engineering, or Computer Science.
• Total 3+ years of experience being data scientist/engineer or analytics consultant.
• Experience with complex, high volume, multi-dimensional data.
• Experience in financial services, or technology industries. Strong interest in the future of payments is a must.
• Outstanding problem-solving skills, with demonstrated ability to think creatively and tactically.
• Demonstrate curiosity, self-motivated, and result oriented, with the ability to managed multiple projects.
• Ability to learn new technology and paradigms as our industry continues to evolve at Visa and everywhere.
• Strong technical competency and experience with shell-scripting and Linux systems.
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline using Azure DevOps, GitHub actions, Jenkins, or Airflow.
• Strong coding skills in Spark, Python and SQL to manipulate big data in distributed platforms.
• Leverage Generative and Agentic AI and utilize REST APIs to connect data applications across the Visa ecosystem.
• Demonstrate experience leveraging open-source tools, libraries, and platforms.
• Experience with visualization tools, such as advanced user of PowerBI, Tableau, or similar.
• Problem solving ability and process creator with strategic focus on replicability, scalability, innovation, and governance.
• Proficient with git for version control and code collaboration following software development best practices.
• Must be passionate about automation and data and able to deliver high quality work.
• Good understanding of Agile way of working, tools such as JIRA and practical experience of working in Agile teams.
• Fluency in English (spoken/written). Portuguese or Spanish is a plus.
• Experience of cloud-based data platforms will be an added advantage.
• Experience creating data story and proficiency in using power point.

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.