Systems Architect

**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.

Systems Architect will be part of Visa's Digital and Mobile Payments architecture team and will be reporting to VP of architecture.

You deeply understand the challenges of a persistent layer in a distributed environment and balance the demand of agility and data quality to build a long-term maintainable end to end data ecosystem with consistency, availability, and scalability.

You possess strong interpersonal skills along with effective communication (both written and verbal) and the ability to present complex ideas in a clear, concise way. You also can influence and develop relationships with key partners. e.g. DBA, infrastructure team.

**Primary Responsibilities**:

- Perform logical & physical data modeling using Erwin for RDBMS databases (Oracle and PostgreSQL) in a distributed and active-active environment.
- Work with operation and engineering teams to help with persistent layer design and database, replication related issues.
- Work with other Architects and product team or help with end-to-end data flow design using various ETL or near real time solutions.
- Enhance and promote data architecture standards and best practices.
- Research and POC new technology to provide more capabilities on the persistent layer.

**Technical Abilities**:

- You understand scalability challenges. You can design and develop horizontally scalable, resilient and high-throughput systems.
- Deep expertise and knowledge of database partitioning and performance tuning.
- Familiar and experienced with Postgres or/and MySQL architecture, features and management.
- Experience with Golden Gate or other replication software (commercial or homegrown).
- Hands-on Experience with Hadoop is a big plus
- Hand-on experience with NoSQL platforms and messaging system is a big plus.

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 2-3 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.
**Qualifications**
Basic Qualifications
5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications
Bachelor's / Master's degree in Computer Science or other technology field. Typically requires 8+ years of experience in delivering enterprise-class, mission-critical, commercial, and scalable products, at least 3 of which were in the role of an architect or a lead developer.
**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.