Lead Data Scientist

Visa
Washington
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 180,000 - 288,000 annuallyFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningSkills: ["Mentorship","Collaboration","Technical leadership","Problem-solving","Technical communication"]

Lead data science efforts for the Visa Acceptance Platform, helping design, build, and test AI-driven product capabilities at scale. Define and execute data strategies to improve extraction efficiency and data quality using advanced modeling, data wrangling, and ETL pipelines. Ensure governance and data management across products, guide technical requirements with partners, and translate complex trends into platform roadmaps for secure, resilient payment experiences.

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Lead Data Scientist

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Job Summary

Lead data science efforts for the Visa Acceptance Platform, helping design, build, and test AI-driven product capabilities at scale. Define and execute data strategies to improve extraction efficiency and data quality using advanced modeling, data wrangling, and ETL pipelines. Ensure governance and data management across products, guide technical requirements with partners, and translate complex trends into platform roadmaps for secure, resilient payment experiences.
Location: Washington
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Provide technical expertise and mentor others on extensible, maintainable, reusable code, including defining framework, coding patterns, and security requirements.
  • •Develop and lead strategies to drive efficiencies across data extraction and ensure data quality and completeness using data wrangling and complex modeling.
  • •Ensure adherence to data management principles, governance, process, and tools to maintain data quality across products.
  • •Advise on technical specifications with collaborators to clarify requirements and identify upstream/downstream dependencies.
  • •Identify trends across data sources and use insights to plan platform-wide updates and roadmaps for software upgrades and security remediation.
Travel: Low travel

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 180,000 - 288,000 annually
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVision401kFsaLife InsurancePaid LeaveWellness Stipend

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree, or at least 8 years with an Advanced Degree, or at least 3 years with a PhD.
  • •3+ years building AI/ML powered predictive analytics/insights models.
  • •4+ years solving data problems using data technologies (e.g., Hadoop, Hive, Kafka, Redis, NoSQL, RDBMS).
  • •2+ years designing, implementing, and maintaining ETL pipelines.
  • •3+ years building and evaluating data analysis/metrics.
Experience:PaymentsFintechBig data
Skills:MentorshipCollaborationTechnical leadershipProblem-solvingTechnical communication
Tech Stack:AIMLPredictive analyticsData wranglingData modelingData governanceETLHadoopHiveKafkaRedisNoSQLRDBMSBig DataSparkFlinkMapReduce

Company Brief

Visa
Global payments technology company that operates the VisaNet electronic payments network, facilitating credit, debit and digital transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and governments worldwide.
Industry: Payments
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 1958
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