Senior Consultant Data Engineer

Visa

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Work type: Hybrid
Location: Bellevue, WA
Salary: $152,200–$243,700 / yr
Posted: 17 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Closes: Oct 31, 2026
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $173k

This role $198k

$121k most similar roles pay here $257k

This role pays more than 68% of similar roles. Most pay $134,053–$211,200 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $198k versus about $173k for comparable roles.

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About Visa

Visa Inc. is the world''s largest payment network, enabling digital payments for consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and governments through its global processing network and branded card products. Industry: Payments Technology & Financial Services

Visa currently has 93 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $149,200–$238,700 across 92 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Consultant Data Engineer

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As a Data Engineer - Sr. Consultant level, you will join the team to design and evolve the data platform while ensuring reliability, cost efficiency, and scalability. You will build and optimize high-performance batch and streaming data services for large-scale workloads, manage production operations for file- and event-based systems, and participate in code reviews to promote security and observability. The role involves reducing technical debt through clean interfaces and consistent patterns. You will utilize a technical stack including Golang, Python, SQL, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Airflow, Git, and Codefresh, while leveraging Azure or AWS cloud environments. Your work focuses on the core processing platform for banking, card issuing, and financial market infrastructure, specifically addressing the challenges of migrating from legacy systems to advanced technology in the payment and financial services space.

What does a Data Engineer earn?

Median $177600 from 228 postings across 58 companies.

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Skills

Golang Python SQL AWS Azure Kubernetes Terraform Docker Airflow Grafana CloudWatch Git GitHub CI/CD Distributed Systems Streaming Processing

What you'll do

Design and evolve the data platform to ensure reliability, cost efficiency, and scalability.
Implement and optimize high-performance batch and streaming data pipelines for large-scale workloads.
Manage production operations including monitoring, incident response, and meeting service level agreements.
Participate in code and design reviews to promote best practices in testing, security, and observability.
Deliver end-to-end data products by collaborating with partner teams and internal customers.
Reduce technical debt by simplifying systems through clean interfaces and consistent patterns.

What we're looking for

8+ years of experience with a Bachelor's Degree, or 5+ years with an Advanced Degree, or 2+ years with a PhD, or 11+ years of total experience.
Experience with a Bachelor's Degree, or with an Advanced Degree, or with a PhD (preferred).
Proficiency in Golang or Python.
Cloud computing skills and hybrid designs, preferably using Azure or AWS.
Strong software engineering background building distributed systems at scale.
Experience with modern streaming processing and strong SQL skills.
Experience with Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, and Airflow or similar orchestration tools.
Proficiency in version control and CI/CD pipelines such as Git, GitHub, or Codefresh.

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