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Principal Data Scientist

Visa

$230,500 - $334,700
Nov 9, 2025
Foster City, CA, United States of America
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Visa is looking to build new value-added digital engagement products and enhance marketing capabilities for its clients globally by architecting, designing, and delivering large-scale marketing data platforms and advanced data products.

Requirements

  • Strong hands-on experience with big data platforms, distributed computing, real-time systems, and open-source technologies relevant to analytics and engagement (for example, Hadoop, Spark, Flink, Kafka, Hive).
  • Hands-on coding and production deployment expertise in Python, Java, SQL, Scala, Go, or C.
  • Track record integrating AI, ML, and GenAI into analytics and marketing platforms at scale.
  • Deep understanding of data architecture, pipeline optimization, testing, monitoring, and data governance for marketing and consumer engagement applications.
  • Previous experience building and scaling enterprise-class, high-volume transaction systems is highly valued.
  • Competence with cloud-native data tools, CI/CD automation, and modern DevOps practices.

Responsibilities

  • Architect, design, and deliver high-performing, extensible, and reusable data engineering systems that enable real-time and batch marketing analytics and engagement solutions at scale.
  • Define technical standards, frameworks, and best practices for resilient and secure data pipeline development, ensuring adherence to all compliance, privacy, and security requirements for marketing and customer engagement datasets.
  • Build and maintain robust ETL and ELT processes and data marts, leveraging big data and cloud technologies such as Spark, Hive, Hadoop, Kafka, AWS, and Azure.
  • Deliver and monitor quality, completeness, and performance of marketing data platforms through instrumentation, benchmarking, and automated testing.
  • Transform Visa’s digital offerings by integrating AI, ML, and GenAI capabilities for next-level campaign optimization, personalization, and customer loyalty measurement.
  • Lead and influence multiple teams with a culture of innovation and drive for engineering excellence, mentoring and developing talent to sustain high-functioning, purpose-driven teams.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with product owners, business partners, and cybersecurity experts to clarify business requirements and translate them into scalable technical solutions for global digital engagement.

Other

  • This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in the office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.
  • 12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 10 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters/MBA /JD/MD), or a minimum of 5 years of work experience with a PhD
  • Demonstrated leadership and ability to influence, develop, and collaborate across global teams.
  • Prefer prior exposure to payments, fintech, marketing, or customer engagement platforms.
  • Excellence in stakeholder management, agile project delivery, and innovation.