About Us Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.
At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world.
Join Visa and do work that matters – to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you.
Job Description
Team Summary
Data Science team is a key part of decision management engine at Visa.This is a high-performing team of data scientists, data analysts, statisticians, and business analysts from a variety of countries - serving major FIs and merchants in Asia Pacific. Analytics & Data Products is looking for a hands-on person that earns trust and respect of the team. The person must be results oriented, highly organized, and must, must be focused on delivering innovative analytics work.
What a Data Scientist does at Visa:
The Data Scientist will be working together with other members in the team to design and deliver projects with the appropriate analytic methodologies and techniques to solve client’s business objectives. The team closely collaborates with business stakeholders to understand the business problem in order to determine the most appropriate analytic approach that provides meaningful results to clients. Responsibilities include delivering projects on time and within scope with an in-depth knowledge of data analytics and cutting-edge data mining techniques as well as the use of predictive, classification and alternate analytic algorithms for modeling and segmentation. These analyses are foundational to corroborate or refute stated hypotheses and are incorporated in the final client-facing solutions. The team is responsible for continuously creating and protecting analytic IP resulting from project learning.
As a Data Scientist you will be responsible for developing Data Analytics solutions to solve business problems. Here, you will be required to work with large data sets using quantitative techniques and build complex statistical models that learn from big data. We have a highly collaborative process and you are required to work across multiple teams and functions for developing cutting edge, creative and advanced analytic solutions and processes.
Why this is important to Visa?
The Data Scientist is a key member of the Consulting and Analytics team. DS is key driver to Visa business.
This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.
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
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.