Data Visualization Engineer

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.

Job Description

Do you love crafting insightful, beautiful, and engaging data experiences?

Do you like working with front end technologies like React and Angular?

Do you want to create reusable, accessible data visualization components?

Put those skills to work answering strategic questions for one of the world's most respected and innovative payments companies.

Join our fast-paced Data Experience team, within our Design Engineering & Analytics organization.

You will work on Data Experience tools like our data visualization component library, Visa Chart Components (VCC) .

The beautiful, accessible, and robust data visualization components you design and build will be used to explore and visually manipulate Visa’s unique global data assets.

Your work will empower users to discover and communicate insights with clarity, nuance, and ease.

Incredible volumes of data will be at your fingertips to mold and refine into elegant visualizations utilizing traditional proven graphics (e.g., bar charts) as well as inventing novel graphics concepts, yet to be seen.

Essential functions

• Develop and maintain data visualization components, patterns, and tooling for our VCC library, collaborating closely with designers on the Data Experience team to identify opportunities for improving the designer and developer experience for VCC’s community of users.
  
  
• Partner with the accessibility team to ensure our chart components and patterns meet WCAG and Visa’s Global Accessibility Requirements (VGAR).
  
  
• Support VCC’s user community of designers, business analysts, and engineers to help them leverage VCC to the fullest within their products.
  
  
• Collaborate with engineering from Global Design and our partner Product teams, providing subject matter expertise on developing complex data intensive interfaces and experiences.
  
  
• Assist with developing and delivering training on Data Visualization and Data Experience engineering.
  
  

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 3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site).

This position can be based in Foster City, California, Austin, Texas, or Bellevue, Washington.

Relocation assistance is not provided for this role.

Qualifications

Basic qualifications:
• 5 or more 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

Preferred Qualifications:
• 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or other technical/design relevant field.
• Expertise in data visualization principles and techniques.
• Deep expertise in D3.js, with proven ability to build performant, accessible, and responsive data-intensive web applications.
• Experience in developing and maintaining design systems or component libraries focused on Data Visualization.
• Strong knowledge of accessibility standards and inclusive design principles for data visualization and data experience design.
• Familiarity with design tools and understanding of design principles.
• Detail oriented with a keen eye to spot single pixel deformities, and a passion for creating elegant, efficient solutions.
• Comfortable working at different levels of fidelity in your designs and switching between them.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability to learn and adapt techniques and processes to an ever-changing eco-system of design, engineering and GenAI technologies.
• A strong interest in Generative AI and its applications in data experience design.
• Technology we enjoy using and hope you do too: Figma, React, Angular, Stencil, Jest, Node, D3, Generative AI, and of course Visa Chart Components.

Bonus points for ...
• Demonstrated experimentation with of Generative AI and its application to this space.
• Can demonstrate abilities through shareable (public facing) data visualization experiences.

Additional Information

Work Authorization: Permanent Authorization to work in the U.S. is a precondition of employment for this position.

Visa will not sponsor applicants for work visas in connection with this position.

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting.

The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

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.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is to USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable).

Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location.

In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity.

Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.