Data Scientist Manager

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

Visa Consulting and Analytics (VCA), the consulting arm of Visa, is a global team of industry experts in strategy, marketing, operations, risk and economics consulting, with decades of experience in the payments industry.

Our VCA teams offers,

• Consulting services customized to the needs of Visa client’s business objectives and strategy

• Business and economic insights and perspectives that impact business and investment decisions

• Self-service digital solutions Visa clients can leverage to improve performance in product, marketing and operations

• Proven data-driven marketing strategies to increase clients’ ROI

VCA team is looking for an individual to join our consulting practice and play a role developing high impact projects for Visa’s clients. This potential candidate will be responsible for developing and implementing Statistical modeling to address key strategic needs for Visa’s clients including issuers, acquirers, and merchants.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deploy analytical models and techniques within the organization and clients including issuers, acquirers and merchants

• Utilize Visa's data and analytic capabilities, technology, and industry expertise to develop, standardized and implement the consulting solutions.

• Identify relevant market trends by country, based on a deep analysis of payment industry Information. Interacting with several internal and external stakeholders for the strategic definition of analysis and initiatives.

• Continuously develop and present innovative ideas to improve current business practices within Visa.

• Perform client-specific analysis on portfolio data including proprietary information, such as customer demographics, activity, spend levels and financial information.

• Work with large volumes of data, extract and manipulate large datasets using standard tools such as Spark, Python,  and SQL.

• Hands-on skills in cleaning, manipulating, analyzing, visualizing large data sets.

• Enhance and optimize codes that scale critical business processes.

• Develop and validate advance data mining tools, algorithms, and other capabilities to solve business problem. Experience doing ML using R, Python (Scikit-learn, etc.) or other similar software.

• Design and develop dashboards using Tableau or Power BI

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

•BA/BS required, MBA or other relevant master’s degree preferred (eg, Statistics, Computer Science, and Engineering).
•8+ years of overall experience with a preferred minimum of 5 in a Bankcard and/or Retailer
•Strong interest in the future of payments a must.
•Experience in big data analytics (Hadoop) and statistical modeling in Python, Spark or R.
•Experience designing and developing dashboards using Tableau
•Excellent project management and organizational and presentational skills.
•Strong Relationship management and interpersonal skills.
•Proficient oral/written communication skills in Spanish and English.
•Team player.
•Initiative, creativity, and self-motivation.
•Ability to multi-task various projects.

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.