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Job DescriptionThe Data Solutions – Implementation and Scaling (DSIS) team sits within the Europe Data Solutions Organization and is responsible for the technical design, implementation and scaled delivery of standardized Visa Consulting & Analytics (VCA) solutions across all European markets. As a Data Science Manager within the DSIS team, you will work with stakeholders to create and deliver data-driven solutions that can be efficiently delivered to clients on a continuous basis.
Principal Responsibilities
- Drive automation of data solutions to enable efficient and repeatability revenue for VCA including:
- Building and documenting data pipelines to prepare shared data assets for the team
- Designing and developing visualizations and dashboards to communicate insights and client recommendations
- Automating reproducible data extracts for client delivery
- Develop scaled methodologies that derive meaningful recommendations from data involving:
- Advanced analytics
- Customer segmentations
- Predictive models
- Client portfolio performance measurements
- Data policy compliance requirements
- Work with VCA data scientists and consultants across Europe to support data science business development across key accounts to meet VCA revenue targets
- Promote the creative use of data science to solve business problems
- Create and deliver powerful business-centric insights from data through insightful visualization and storyboarding
- Collaborate with stakeholders to fully understand business requirements and desired business outcomes
- Handle multiple medium and long-term projects along with the rest of the team and stakeholders
- Define detailed analytic scope, methodology, and project plans
- Execute on project plans using appropriate methodologies/techniques
- Ensure project delivery within timelines and budget requirements
- Enhance existing data science solutions to incorporate new requirements or best practices
- Apply best practices to develop reproducible analytic pipelines
- Provide subject matter expertise to stakeholders
- Experience working in the data science, data engineering or analytics profession
- Graduate or post graduate degree (or equivalent experience) in a quantitative field such as statistics, computer science, mathematics, engineering, operational research, economics, etc
- Experience working in the payments industry (e.g. financial institutions, credit reference agencies, payment processors)
- Hands on experience working with extremely large data sets
- Team oriented, collaborative, diplomatic, and flexible style, with the ability to tailor data driven results to various audience levels
- Results oriented with strong analytical, consultative and problem-solving skills, with demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor
- Experience planning, organizing, and managing end to end projects with diverse cross-functional teams
- Proven skills in translating analytics output to actionable recommendations
- Hands-on experience with modern distributed systems, including both Hadoop, Hive/SQL and Apache Spark
- Proficiency in creating reproducible analytic pipelines
- One or more data analytics/programming tools such as Python and R
- Proficiency with version control systems like (e.g. git, GitHub, etc)
- Data visualization using Tableau, Power BI or R/Python
Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.
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