Visa · 2 days ago
Senior Data Scientist IV
Bellevue, WA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$162K/yr - $260K/yr
8+ years expVisa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions globally. They are seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join their team, focusing on innovative data science and AI developments to enhance payment solutions and drive exceptional customer experiences.
BankingFinanceFinancial ServicesInformation TechnologyMobile PaymentsPayments
Responsibilities
Provides technical expertise and mentors others to implement extensible, maintainable, and reusable data models and strategies and adheres to all security and privacy requirements for the application of artificial intelligence and data science
Develops strategies for and leads team's efforts to drive efficiencies across data extraction and ensure data quality and completeness using data wrangling, complex data modeling, and artificial intelligence
Ensures adherence to data management principles, governance, process, and tools to maintain data quality across products
Advises on technical specifications during discussions with collaborators (e.g., Product owners, business partners, Cybersecurity) to identify and clarify sophisticated technical or business requirements and identify business needs and upstream and/or downstream system/application dependencies
Defines technical standards for the design and documents the architecture for a complex product, using existing architecture design patterns
Oversees and establishes unit testing requirements of unit testing to confirm functional capability of code, acts as subject matter expert in testing for coding standards and security scans, strategically leads user acceptance testing in collaboration with customer across multiple domains
Identifies complex trends across relevant data sources and uses insights to plan platform-wide future solution updates. Identifies opportunities and defines roadmap for software upgrades and server patches for security remediation where applicable
Qualification
Required
8+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 11+ years of relevant work experience
Preferred
9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 or more years of experience with a PhD
Four (4) years of experience solving data problems using data technologies (e.g., Hadoop, Hive, Kafka, Redis, NoSQL, RDBMS)
Two (2) years of experience designing, building/fine tuning ML/AI models around data insights, anomaly detection e.t.c
Two (2) years of experience in designing, building, evaluating metrics for model performance and business outcome
Three (3) years of experience building and pushing code into production
Expert in at least one of the following: Python, R, Java
Experience with Big Data and Analytics in general leveraging technologies like Hadoop, Spark, Flink and MapReduce
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
401 (k)
FSA/HSA
Life Insurance
Paid Time Off
Wellness Program
Company
Visa
Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
unknownKey Investors
TNB Financial Services
2016-09-10Post Ipo Equity
2008-03-19IPO
Leadership Team
Ryan McInerney
Chief Executive Officer
Chris Suh
EVP & Chief Financial Officer
Recent News
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