Sr. Manager - Data Engineering

As a Senior Manager, you will be part of Risk and Identity Solutions team and will provide hands-on technical leadership to the team to build our applications in an agile development environment by hiring and building a world-class team of engineers, defining, executing and delivering functional and non-functional features at scale quickly and promoting a culture of cross-functional collaboration and engineering excellence. This position is based in Bangalore and will report to the Director of Software Engineering.

The Work itself:
Provide hands on technical leadership and oversight to a team of software engineers (Full time employees and contractors)
Be part of the development team with hands on coding skills and excellent collaboration skills.
Deliver the product with moderately complex technical interdependencies with cross geographical teams.
Actively participate in Solution design, architecture and development of key initiatives. Ensure developed solutions adhere to established architectural best patterns and target state.
Foster the culture of Engineering Excellence (quality, security, performance, scalability, availability, resilience etc.), CI/CD, Automation and Shift-Left.
Hire, retain and grow a high-performing team of software engineers.
Invest in the career development of direct reports.
Create an engineering culture of creativity and innovation.
Provide technical leadership to development team by participating in design, performing design reviews and code reviews.
Provide technical leadership for quality assurance and test engineering activities - manual and automation
Lead scrum ceremonies and program management activities. Play a crucial role in interfacing with business stakeholders to define solutions and requirements, prioritize, and drive execution using agile methodologies.

Essential Functions:
Works with product owners to gather and refine requirements for one product, adding and taking into account existing tools and solutions across departments.
Develops and designs moderately advanced architect solutions that are robust and scalable, considering integrations with other solutions across the internal technical ecosystem.
Provides domain expertise on the development of user documentation of solutions and implements standard processes in user documentation.
Plays a significant role in the development and delivery of new features within a product from end-to-end.

The Skills You Bring:
Energy and Experience: A growth mindset that is curious and passionate about technologies and enjoys challenging projects on a global scale
Challenge the Status Quo: Comfort in pushing the boundaries, hacking beyond traditional solutions
Language Expertise: Expertise in one or more general development languages (e.g., Java)
Builder: Experience building / developing Data pipeline solutions and data applications with quality and scalability.
Learner: Constant drive to learn new technologies in data space and expertise in Hadoop, Spark Kafka, Java and Spark.
Partnership: Experience collaborating with Product, Test, Dev-ops, and Agile/Scrum teams

**We do not expect that any single candidate would fulfill all of these characteristics. For instance, we have exciting team members who are really focused on building scalable systems but didn t work with payments technology or web applications before joining Visa.