What’s it all about?
This is a high-visibility opportunity for a technical leader who wants to work on large-scale problems with tangible business impact.
In this role, you will lead a small team of talented Data Scientists who support Visa’s Functions and Product (F&P) departments by answering key business questions with data-driven answers and actionable recommendations.
As a leader in the F&P Data Science team, you will:
- Bring structure to ambiguous business problems, using computational and statistical techniques to translate them into highly scalable solutions
- Set the standard for engineering excellence and shape the way we design, deploy, and maintain these solutions
- Foster a data-driven culture across the entire company, enabling F&P departments to consume your insights and take measurable actions
- Provide thought leadership and guidance within your team and across the broader Visa Europe Data Science community
What We Expect From You, Day To Day
Strategic Leadership
- Set the team’s strategic direction and plan of execution to drive meaningful business results
- Be a strong leader who can apply Data Science methods towards answering key business questions with data-driven answers
- Influence F&P teams by translating data and insights into actionable recommendations and ensuring they are adopted to successfully deliver business outcomes
- Stakeholder Leadership
- Plan and communicate with partners to scope projects, agree timelines, and define responsibilities
- Establish and foster a data-driven culture and strong relationships across F&P
- Collaborate effectively with other Data Science teams across Visa
- Team Leadership
- Facilitate project execution and knowledge sharing, allowing the team to operate at a high level
- Support the professional growth of a team of highly skilled Data Scientists
- Model Visa’s Leadership Principles and create an inclusive and supportive environment where every employee can thrive
Technical Leadership
- Be an experienced mentor to more junior Data Scientists on computational/statistical methods and their applications to loosely defined business problems
- Demonstrate a product mindset by identifying, developing, and maintaining reusable components that can be deployed into productised solutions
- Advance the team’s engineering craftsmanship by devising and sharing best practices
- Develop a deep understanding of Visa’s data assets and how they can be used to support F&P teams across the company
- Identify and prototype novel methods, algorithms, and tools from the open-source community and the scientific literature
Required Qualifications
What they’re after…
- Strong statistical knowledge and proven expertise in applying statistical solutions to business problems
- Solid relational modelling (SQL) and programming skills (preferably in Python)
- Good working knowledge of data visualisation / BI platforms such as Power BI or Tableau
- Experience leading the delivery of large-scale data solutions using Big Data and distributed processing platforms such as Hadoop, Hive and Spark
- Familiarity with modern DevOps practices (including Git and CI/CD)
- Long-term strategic thinking and strong problem-solving skills
- Stakeholder management ability including effective prioritisation, clear and concise communication, and delivery of actionable data-driven insights
Preferred Qualifications
- A higher degree (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or other quantitative discipline
- Functional knowledge of cloud computing platforms such as AWS, Azure or GCP
- Background in payments or banking
- Experience creating and protecting Intellectual Property through patents
More Information
- Salary Offer 0 ~ $3000
- Experience Level Junior
- Total Years Experience 0-5
- Dropdown field Option 1