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 Global Data & AI Team
With data and AI being the fuel that drives our future - our strategies, policies, and business successes around data will define our future growth prospects. Unlocking the value available through the innovative use of data and AI/Machine Learning on behalf of consumers, businesses, and communities is key to our future. We at Visa have a bold vision to continue to grow and accelerate our data and AI/ML-related businesses and capabilities.
Led by Visa’s Chief Data Officer, the Global Data & AI team coordinates high-impact, complex, company-wide projects related to the enterprise’s data and AI business strategy, platforms and products, solutions, as well as our policy and governance. Working closely with Visa’s Chief Privacy Officer, the Technology organization, the wider data community, and the full set of Visa’s global lines of business, the Global Data & AI Team is evolving Visa’s data-related work with momentum and enthusiasm. Driven by its commitment to trusted use of data, Visa is seeking enthusiastic leaders who are change-agents and passionate about the future of data around the world.
Data Insights Studio
Data Insights Studio is a Global BI Engineering team that drives scalable, and reusable business intelligence capabilities across regions and functions by establishing standards & frameworks. The team partners with business, product, data engineering, and technology teams to deliver high-quality scalable BI Solution, semantic models, automation/productivity, and analytics products that improve decision-making and operational efficiency.
About the role
- You will be a hands-on technical architect and senior individual contributor in BI Engineering within Visa’s Global Data & AI organization, reporting to the Leader, Data Insights Studio.
- You will operate from our Global Shared Services hub in Bengaluru, responsible to design scalable, reusable data solutions, drive engineering standards and best practices, and driving framework‑led development to improve efficiency, quality, and speed of delivery across the data ecosystem.
Primary responsibilities
- Establish BI Engineering architecture standards and reusable frameworks for dashboards, reports, semantic models, datasets, pipelines, KPIs/metrics, documentation, and performance.
- Establish BI Lifecycle management and certification by identifying duplicate reports, defining trusted-report criteria, and improving report discoverability.
- Drive utilization of governed semantic layers, certified datasets, and reusable reporting models to ensure consistent KPIs, business rules, lineage, and metric documentation.
- Enable low-code, configuration-driven, automation and AI-assisted BI capabilities through reusable templates, metadata-driven patterns, and analytical reporting.
- Manage BI COE intake, prioritization, roadmap planning, and delivery governance across initiatives, resources, risks, and dependencies.
- Partner with business, product, and technology teams to convert business needs into scalable BI products and reporting solutions.
- Support cloud migration and BI platform modernization by defining migration guidance, architecture, improving performance, and aligning solutions to cloud standards.
- Embed data quality, security, privacy, lineage, access control, and auditability into BI delivery and governance processes.
- Support the global BI Engineering Community of Practice by sharing best practices, enabling training, and promoting consistent engineering discipline.
Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
- 8+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 11+ years of relevant work experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 or more years of experience with a PhD
- 10-12 years of work experience in BI/DE field
- 6+ years of experience leading technical architecture, tooling and design systems for BI development
- Familiarity with shared services, consulting, financial services is a strong plus.
- Expert knowledge of data visualization tool ecosystem, genAI utilization in BI and common open-source technologies
- Solid engineering foundations with CI/CD for BI, code/data reviews, testing, and observability, proven UI/UX experience
- Technical skills:
- BI Tool: Expert in enterprise dashboarding, advanced analytics, and embedded delivery.
- Architecture & Integration: Design end-to-end BI architecture (data ingestion → modeling → visualization) with REST APIs, embedded analytics, and automated reporting.
- Programming & Data Processing: Strong SQL, PySpark, HiveQL; experience with Hadoop, AWS EMR, NoSQL databases.
- Data Pipelines & Orchestration: Proficient with Apache Airflow for workflow orchestration, data quality, and performance optimization.
- DevOps for BI: Skilled in Git/GitHub, CI/CD pipelines, and automated BI asset testing.
- Front-End & Advanced Visualization: Familiar with React, micro‑frontends, and MicroStrategy
- Strategic and Functional Excellence
- Simplify complexity—framing problems clearly and choosing the right data and design patterns.
- Balance speed and rigor—shipping iterative value while hardening for scale, reliability, and security.
- Influence without authority—aligning stakeholders and earning trust through transparent execution.
- Measure what matters—defining clear success metrics and closing the loop with adoption and performance
- A professional capacity for strong enthusiasm and accountability
- High attention to detail and quality
- Highly adaptive, comfortable working within a complex, and often ambiguous, environment.
- Creative thinker who thrives despite changing circumstances
- Ability to make and keep strategic priorities on-track without distraction
- Outstanding written, verbal, and presentation communications skills appropriate for a wide, global audience. Capable of summarizing complex issues into succinct messaging
- Proactive and effective communicator. Experienced at presenting information at senior levels, facilitating group discussions and debate with the ability to influence across geographic and functional lines (whether virtual or in-person)
- Strong business acumen and understanding of Visa and business models
- Leadership and Stakeholder Management
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills to influence and build credibility with senior leaders across a federated organization
- Team-oriented, collaborative, diplomatic, and flexible, with proven ability to build strong working relationships with internal and external clients at all levels of management and work on complex issues within cross-functional teams
- Self-starter who can responsibly advance work and is comfortable making sound, well-informed judgement calls for progress, without needless delays
- An individual who is known for building deep and trusted relationships despite sometimes competing priorities
- Open-minded and willing to listen to ideas and opinions from others. Able to look for new solutions when current processes don't work
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.