Principal Data Scientist

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

Visa’s Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce. We operate the world’s most sophisticated processing networks capable of handling more than 65k secure transactions a second across 80M merchants, 15k Financial Institutions, and billions of everyday people. While working with us you’ll get to work on complex distributed systems and tackle massive scale problems centered on new payment flows, business and data solutions, cyber security, and B2C platforms.

The Opportunity:

We are seeking a versatile, curious, and energetic Senior Director to join our team of passionate and dedicated engineers and data scientists. We collaborate on Data Engineering and Machine Learning developments at Visa, tackling complex challenges on a global scale! As a Senior Director at Visa, you will play an integral role in a multi-functional development team, inventing, designing, building, and testing products that serve a truly global customer base. Join us and see how your efforts will shape the digital future of payments.

You will have an opportunity to changing the way data products are developed at Visa!

Essential Functions:

• Be a technology thought leader in the domain of ML and applied science in fintech space.

• Use Generative AI to improve business workflows around core mission critical logic related to dispute management and merchant representment.

• Build metrics and evaluations as we migrate business logic to LLMs.

• Build high fidelity models for risk assessment in fintech space

• Build engg systems to run the models at scale in production workflows.

• Ensures alignment to data management principles, governance, process, and tools to maintain quality across all projects.

• Supervises testing code in a common testing environment to assess compatibility.

• Leads regular calls with production support teams to address issues with code.

• Shapes the direction for the development of tools and automation processes that assist in transforming, optimizing, managing, accessing, deploying, and monitoring data processes in batches and in real time.

• Monitors and supervises efforts to automate advanced data protocols, reduction techniques, and aggregation approaches to validate the quality of extracted data across the data pipeline.

• Leads efforts to drive efficiencies across data extraction and ensures data quality and completeness using data wrangling, complex data modeling, and artificial intelligence.

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:
• 12+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 9
years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD,
MD) or 6 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 15+ years of relevant work
experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
• 15 or more years of experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or 12 years of
experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, or MD), PhD with
9+ years of experience
• 11+ years of relevant work experience with a bachelor’s degree in computer
science, Computer Engineering, or related field.
• Five (5) years of experience solving data problems using data technologies
(e.g., Hadoop, Hive, Kafka, Redis, NoSQL, RDBMS).
• Two (2) years of experience designing, implementing, and maintaining ETL
pipelines.
• Two (2) years of experience implementing and supporting real-time systems.

Additional Information

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

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.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 0.00 to per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.