Data Scientist @ Visa

Essential Functions

• Provide technical leadership in a team that generates business insights based on big data, identify impactful recommendations, and communicate the findings to clients
• Brainstorm innovative ways to use our unique data to answer business problems
• Extract and understand data to form an opinion on how to best help our clients and derive relevant insights
• Develop visualizations to make your sophisticated analyses accessible to a broad audience
• Assess the efficiency and accuracy of new data sources and data gathering techniques
• Develop custom data models and algorithms to apply to data sets
• Use predictive modeling to increase and optimize customer experiences, revenue generation, data insights, and other business outcomes
• Partner with a variety of Visa teams to provide comprehensive solutions
• Synthesize ideas/proposals in writing and engage in productive discussions with external or internal partners
• Provide mentorship in modern analytic techniques and business applications to unlock the value of Visa’s unique data set, in keeping with market trends, client needs and emerging techniques

Basic Qualifications

• 2 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD, or PhD)

Preferred Qualifications

• 3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)
• 2+ years’ experience in data-based decision-making or quantitative analysis
• Bachelor’s degree in an analytical field such as statistics, operations research, economics, computer science or many others (graduate degree is a plus)
• Experience with extracting and aggregating data from large data sets using SQL or other tools
• Competence in Excel, PowerPoint and Tableau
• Experience in understanding and analyzing data using statistical software (e.g., Python, SAS, R, Stata or others)
• Previous exposure to financial services, credit cards or merchant analytics is a plus, but not required