Sr. Data Scientist US A2A Payments & Open Banking

Visa

Visa, a global leader in payments technology, processes transactions across 200+ countries, aiming to connect the world through secure and innovative payment solutions. The Sr. Data Scientist role focuses on leveraging data science to optimize A2A payment risks and improve decision-making processes, working closely with teams in risk, engineering, and product.

In this role you can expect to have the responsibilities:

• Develop innovative solutions to manage risk in open banking.
• Apply predictive modeling to reduce payment losses while enhancing user experience.
• Evaluate new data sources for effectiveness and accuracy.
• Create visualizations for complex data analyses.
• Identify fraud patterns and develop detection methods.
• Monitor and improve model performance and data accuracy.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams on risk strategies.
• Assist sales and account management in risk strategy optimization.

This role comes with the following benefits:

This role requires you to have:

• Experience in payment risk management and open banking.
• Data mining and statistical modeling expertise.
• Proficiency in SQL, Python, Spark/Scala, and Unix/Linux scripts.
• Experience with Hadoop and big data processing.

You would benefit from having:

• Expertise in creating model features using diverse data sources.
• Experience with real-time transaction decisioning.
• Familiarity with agile tools like JIRA.
• Strong business acumen and ability to derive insights from data.

Visa commits to equal employment opportunities for all applicants, ensuring nondiscrimination regardless of race, gender, or other protected statuses.