Data Scientist-2

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

Essential Functions

• Be an out-of-the-box thinker who is passionate about brainstorming innovative ways to use our unique data to answer business problems

• Communicate with clients to understand the challenges they face and convince them with data

• Extract and understand data to form an opinion on how to best help our clients and derive relevant insights

• Develop visualizations to make your complex analyses accessible to a broad audience

• Find opportunities to craft products out of analyses that are suitable for multiple clients

• Work with stakeholders throughout the organization to identify opportunities for leveraging Visa data to drive business solutions.

• Mine and analyze data from company databases to drive optimization and improvement of product, marketing techniques and business strategies for Visa and its clients

• Assess the effectiveness and accuracy of new data sources and data gathering techniques.

• Develop custom data models and algorithms to apply to data sets.

• Use predictive modeling to increase and optimize customer experiences, revenue generation, data insights, advertising targeting and other business outcomes.

• Develop processes and tools to monitor and analyze model performance and data accuracy

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 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

2-4 years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field or an advanced degree in Computer Science or related field

Preferred Qualifications:

MS in Computer Science or related field
2+ years of experience with distributed software development
Hands-on experience with all aspects of software development: data, server-side, UI, and open-source software.
Experience with Linux, Open source, C++ or Java, client-server apps
Expertise in at least two of the following: Java / Go / Scala / Python,
Knowledge of developing Data Pipeline, including Ingestion, Transformation, Extraction etc. is expected
Experience in large Data Pipeline handing is a big plus
Familiar with container strategies and ecosystems such as Docker, Kubernetes
Knowledge of cloud architecture and scalable solutions including orchestration
BlockChain technical expertise is a plus

Additional Information

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.