Data Scientist- Sr. Consultant level

About Us

Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions globally. We are dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere through innovative payment solutions. Join us today and be part of shaping the digital future of payments.

Job Description

We are seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join our team of passionate data scientists and engineers. You will play a crucial role in developing innovative data science and artificial intelligence solutions that reach a global customer base. Your work will contribute to the advancement of Visa's AI transformation journey.

Essential Functions

• Provides technical expertise and mentors others to implement extensible, maintainable, and reusable data models and strategies, adhering to all security and privacy requirements for AI and data science applications.
• Develops strategies for and leads team's efforts to drive efficiencies across data extraction and ensure data quality and completeness using data wrangling, complex data modeling, and AI.
• Ensures adherence to data management principles, governance, process, and tools to maintain data quality across products.
• Advises on technical specifications during discussions with collaborators, identifying and clarifying sophisticated technical or business requirements and business needs and system/application dependencies.
• Defines technical standards for the design and documents the architecture for a complex product, using existing architecture design patterns.
• Oversees and establishes unit testing requirements of unit testing to confirm functional capability of code, acts as subject matter expert in testing for coding standards and security scans, and collaborates with customers for user acceptance testing.
• Identifies complex trends across relevant data sources and uses insights to plan platform-wide future solution updates. Identifies opportunities and defines roadmap for software upgrades and server patches for security remediation where applicable.

Qualifications

• Basic Qualifications: 8+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 11+ years of relevant work experience.
• Preferred Qualifications: 9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 or more years of experience with a PhD.
• Four (4) years of experience solving data problems using data technologies (e.g., Hadoop, Hive, Kafka, Redis, NoSQL, RDBMS).
• Two (2) years of experience designing, building/fine tuning ML/AI models around data insights, anomaly detection, etc.
• Three (3) years of experience building and pushing code into production.
• Expert in at least one of the following: Python, R, Java.
• Experience with Big Data and Analytics in general leveraging technologies like Hadoop, Spark, Flink and MapReduce.

Salary Range

The estimated salary range for this position is $162,500.00 to $260,400.00 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.

Benefits

Visa offers a comprehensive benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.

Work Hours

Variates based on department needs. 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.