Lead Data Engineer
Visa · Bellevue, WA, United States
Full-time Posted 4 days ago
About this role
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. 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 The Lead Data Engineer is a senior technical leader responsible for guiding the design, development, and optimization of Visa’s large‑scale data platforms and cloud-based analytics environments. This role provides architectural direction, leads complex engineering initiatives, and mentors teams while remaining deeply hands-on with modern data technologies
The Lead Data Engineer drives technical best practices, ensures platform scalability, and influences data engineering strategy for key products and business domains. Responsibilities: Lead the architecture and delivery of large-scale, high-performance data pipelines and processing frameworks across Hadoop and multi-cloud environments. Design scalable data models, lakehouse structures, and distributed data processing solutions that support analytics, machine learning, and real-time data needs
Provide technical leadership to Senior and Staff Data Engineers, conducting design reviews, guiding implementation decisions, and ensuring engineering excellence. Partner with cross-functional teams to translate business and product requirements into robust technical designs and data solutions. Develop and improve engineering best practices for data governance, quality, observability, testing, and cloud resource optimization
Drive adoption of cloud-native data technologies, automation frameworks, and reusable components that improve developm
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