Senior Data Scientist

Auckland, New Zealand

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Visa

Das digitale und mobile Zahlungsnetzwerk von Visa steht an der Spitze der neuen Zahlungstechnologien für die neue Zahlung, elektronische und kontaktlose Zahlung, die die Welt des Geldes bilden

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Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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. When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement. Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.

Job Description

Senior Data Scientist, Managed Services Auckland (New Zealand) 12 Months Fixed term Contract Team Summary Managed Services is part of Visa’s consultancy division, serving Visa's clients (including card issuers, acquirers, and merchants) and solving their strategic problems focused on improving performance and profitability. In Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific, Managed Services lead the efforts to help our clients deliver, execute and implement strategic projects. Our team champions a solution-first mindset and Human Centric Design methodologies to design and deploy leading class customer engagement and portfolio optimisation solutions for our clients. We deliver on objectives from a shared value agenda, effectively becoming the trusted delivery team for our clients and partners. Managed Services is a fast-growing area of the Visa business where our people are the product – and the priority. What a Senior Data Scientist does at Visa: Please note that whilst there maybe scope for a long-term appointment, this role is a 12-month fixed term contract initially. Ideally based in Auckland but with hybrid work options, the Senior Data Scientist will lead Delivery of Data Science projects transforming business requirements into analytics problems to be answered. You will work closely with the Data Delivery Lead and Client Portfolio/Data lead to develop, implement and maintain models in areas such as predictive modelling, churn modelling, customer segmentation, time series and natural language. In this role you will also: Lead Delivery of Data Science projects transforming business requirements into analytics problems to be answered Develop, implement, and maintain models in areas such as predictive modelling, churn modelling, customer segmentation, time series and natural language Mentor members of the Data Science team and in the wide Analytics community on Data Science techniques Influence and contribute to Data Science assessment and planning, maintaining, and ensuring alignment with the strategic direction for our analytics services, tools and platforms Champion Data Science and the use of new tools and techniques to solve business problems Work collaboratively with the wider analytics team and platform to provide collective insight and value for stakeholders Work to technical standards, tooling, policies, and guardrails for Data Chapter. Why this is important to Visa: This role will support a strategic and multi-dimensional client in New Zealand and also as a member of a new and growing team at Visa. This role will help to build the Visa Managed Services business in market, a scaling space that is in high demand from our clients. If you are a trailblazer willing to challenge the status quo, this is the role for you. We need an analyst willing to expand their skillset and develop muscle for designing and visualising insights for our client. Projects you will be a part of: This role will play a critical role in helping to deliver Visa Managed Services, a new business line which is in high demand from our clients. Once established in our initial clients, this role will support the scaling of these services across Australia and New Zealand, and through other markets in AP. As the world's leader in digital payments technology, Visa's mission is to connect the world through the most creative, reliable and secure payment network - enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive. Our advanced global processing network, VisaNet, provides secure and reliable payments around the world, and is capable of handling more than 65,000 transaction messages a second. The company's dedication to innovation drives the rapid growth of connected commerce on any device and fuels the dream of a cashless future for everyone, everywhere. As the world moves from analog to digital, Visa is applying our brand, products, people, network, and scale to reshape the future of commerce. At Visa, your individuality fits right in. Working here gives you an opportunity to impact the world, invest in your career growth, and be part of an inclusive and diverse workplace. We are a global team of disruptors, trailblazers, innovators, and risk-takers who are helping drive economic growth in even the most remote parts of the world, creatively moving the industry forward, and doing meaningful work that brings financial literacy and digital commerce to millions of unbanked and underserved consumers. You're an Individual. We're the team for you. Together, let's transform the way the world pays. 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

Key competencies • Solution-mind set – Applying creative problem-solving techniques and championing a client-first approach to customer insights when opportunities and challenges arise to meet specific business objectives • Active Contributor to Team Success - Actively participating as a member of a team to move the team toward the completion of goals. Makes suggestions for achieving team goals or performing team functions, provides necessary assistance to remove obstacles to help the team accomplish its goals • Building Strategic Work Relationships - Developing and using collaborative relationships to achieve work goals. Uses good interpersonal relationships by helping people feel valued, appreciated, and included in discussions (enhances self-esteem, empathizes, involves, discloses, supports). What you will need to be successful: • Strong communication skills to make complex concepts accessible for business stakeholders • Ability to influence and collaborate at all levels without relying on hierarchy • Good problem-solving skills, comfortable working in complex, challenging environments. • Passion for your domain of expertise and highly inquisitive • An ability to master new tools and skills as required. • Outcome orientated, persistence to challenge the status quo and deliver customer results • A Growth mindset, constantly striving to learn and develop • Proficiency in at least one common data science language such as Python and R following good coding standards • Exposure to notebook environments such as Jupyter Notebook, Apache Zeplin, RStudio or Databricks Collaborative Workbench • Understanding of key concepts of Statistics and Statistical and Machine Learning techniques. What will also help: • High performance delivery focus with a high attention to detail • Excellent client engagement and relationship management skills with a collaborative approach to stakeholder management • Strong team orientation with a collaborative, diplomatic, and flexible style, able to work effectively across multiple teams • Innovation minded with high problem-solving skills, with demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor • Self-motivated, results-oriented individual with the ability to progress multiple priorities concurrently • Adept at data crunching, and passionate about unearthing significant patterns and meaningful insights • Proactive self-starter, always on learner, team player and able to work in a virtual environment • An eye for accuracy, the ability to self-manage multiple data sets and data requests, and flexibility to respond quickly

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.

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Tags: Databricks Jupyter Machine Learning Python R Statistics

Perks/benefits: Career development Flex hours Startup environment

Region: Asia/Pacific
Country: New Zealand
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Category: Data Science Jobs

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