Job Description
Company Description
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
Team Summary
The Business and Strategy Analytics team is part of the Intelligence and Data Solutions organisation, partnering with the Asia Pacific Regional President’s Office to enable Visa’s internal business units to optimise performance and profitability through data-driven decisions. We provide management intelligence to democratise insights across the organisation and deliver strategic analytics to identify opportunities, uncover key payment trends, and shape the future of payments.
What a Manager, Data Engineer - Digital Sales does at Visa:
We are seeking a highly skilled Data Engineer to design and implement robust data integration solutions that enable advanced analytics and decision-making. This role focuses on creating secure, scalable frameworks for ingesting and processing external data, with an emphasis on unstructured, text-based information.
- Design and implement APIs to integrate external data sources into Visa’s internal systems.
- Architect scalable data pipelines for unstructured text data, ensuring security and compliance.
- Lead data initiatives end-to-end, including requirement clarification, solution design, and phased delivery from build and testing through production rollout, with accountability for timelines, quality, and stakeholder outcomes.
- Lead hypothesis-driven data exploration and metrics design, partnering with business and analytics stakeholders to define decision frameworks, success measures, and analytical questions that inform data models and platform capabilities.
- Act as a primary technical owner for key data assets and pipelines, ensuring operational stability, observability, documentation, automation, and continuous optimisation.
- Partner closely with business stakeholders to shape solution roadmaps, prioritise enhancements, and translate evolving market intelligence needs into sustainable, reusable data platform capabilities.
Why this is important to Visa
Visa is launching a Digital Sales Hub in Asia Pacific, accelerating a digital-first, data-driven sales model that delivers scale, precision, and speed. As a Data Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in building future-ready data architecture that powers segmentation, predictive insights, and campaign orchestration—helping shape Visa’s growth strategy across APAC.
This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in the office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.
Qualifications
- 8 years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or related roles.
- Strong hands-on experience in Python and SQL for data processing and automation.
- Practical experience designing and consuming REST APIs, including JSON/XML data handling.
- Working knowledge of modern data platforms (cloud-based data lakes/warehouses, Spark).
- Experience supporting analytics use cases such as dashboards, segmentation, and performance reporting.
- Understanding of data governance, quality, and security best practices.
- Strong client relationship and presentation skills
- Ability to manage cross-functional relationships and resources
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Strong analytical and detail-oriented mindset
- Keen interest in innovation and emerging technologies
- Bachelors degree or equivalent required
What will also help:
- Exposure to unstructured or semi-structured data and basic NLP techniques.
- Familiarity with BI tools such as Tableau or Power BI.
- Experience working with sales, marketing, or commercial data domains.
- Cloud experience (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
As the world’s leader in digital payments technology, Visa’s mission is to connect the world through the most creative, reliable and secure payment network - enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive. Our advanced global processing network, VisaNet, provides secure and reliable payments around the world, and is capable of handling more than 65,000 transaction messages a second. The company’s dedication to innovation drives the rapid growth of connected commerce on any device, and fuels the dream of a cashless future for everyone, everywhere. As the world moves from analog to digital, Visa is applying our brand, products, people, network and scale to reshape the future of commerce.
At Visa, your individuality fits right in. Working here gives you an opportunity to impact the world, invest in your career growth, and be part of an inclusive and diverse workplace. We are a global team of disruptors, trailblazers, innovators and risk-takers who are helping drive economic growth in even the most remote parts of the world, creatively moving the industry forward, and doing meaningful work that brings financial literacy and digital commerce to millions of unbanked and underserved consumers.
You’re an Individual. We’re the team for you. Together, let’s transform the way the world pays.
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.
