To ensure that Visa payment technology is truly available to everyone, everywhere requires the success of our key bank or merchant partners and internal business units. The Global Data Science group supports these partners by using our extraordinarily rich data set that spans more than 3 billion cards globally and captures more than 100 billion transactions in a single year. Our focus lies on building creative solutions that have an immediate impact on the business of our highly analytical partners.
Requirements
- Hands-on expertise with modern distributed systems, including both Hadoop and SQL and Apache Spark
- Hands-on expertise with one or more data analytics and programming tools such as Python
- Hands-on expertise in the application of predictive modeling and machine learning techniques
- Demonstrated knowledge of software development, MLOps or data product development
- Broad knowledge across the entire data science lifecycle, including data engineering, statistics and governance
Responsibilities
- Develop propensity, segmentation and other predictive models to drive business impact
- Develop frameworks, approaches, solutions and recommendations that effectively and efficiently address the most impactful opportunities and challenges.
- Produce insights and analyses to improve client performance, drive understanding of client issues and provide strategic guidance for client priorities across the payment
- Provide guidance in modern analytic techniques and business applications to unlock the value of Visa unique data set, in keeping with market trends, client needs and emerging techniques
- Organize and manage multiple data science projects with diverse cross-functional stakeholders
Other
- Lead a team of analysts within North American Data Science, including project oversight, coaching and professional development
- Work with internal and external clients to understand their strategic business questions and lead project scoping and design to answer those questions by leveraging Visa data
- Proactively engage with clients and Visa client leadership in regular strategic and planning discussions, cultivate and manage a pipeline of work with clients
- Ideal candidate will have payments and management consulting experience.
- Ability to influence and negotiate with senior executives
- Excellent communication, story-telling and presentation skills.
- Competence in Excel, PowerPoint and Tableau
