Principal Data Scientist at Visa

About the Role

We are looking for a Data Engineer to join the VAS PD (Value Added Services, Product Development) team under Digital Marketing and Engagement (DME) at Visa. This strategic role focuses on building new value-added digital engagement products and enhancing marketing capabilities for Visa's clients globally.

Key Responsibilities

• →Architect, design, and deliver high-performing, extensible, and reusable data engineering systems that enable real-time and batch marketing analytics and engagement solutions at scale.
• →Define technical standards, frameworks, and best practices for resilient and secure data pipeline development, ensuring adherence to all compliance, privacy, and security requirements for marketing and customer engagement datasets.
• →Build and maintain robust ETL and ELT processes and data marts, leveraging big data and cloud technologies such as Spark, Hive, Hadoop, Kafka, AWS, and Azure.
• →Deliver and monitor quality, completeness, and performance of marketing data platforms through instrumentation, benchmarking, and automated testing.
• →Transform Visa’s digital offerings by integrating AI, ML, and GenAI capabilities for next-level campaign optimization, personalization, and customer loyalty measurement.
• →Lead and influence multiple teams with a culture of innovation and drive for engineering excellence, mentoring and developing talent to sustain high-functioning, purpose-driven teams.
• →Collaborate cross-functionally with product owners, business partners, and cybersecurity experts to clarify business requirements and translate them into scalable technical solutions for global digital engagement.
• →Explore, map, and negotiate access to new data sources. Champion a data-driven culture through training, knowledge sharing, and internal documentation.
• →Continuously stay ahead of emerging trends, industry best practices, and innovative data technologies to strengthen the competitiveness of Visa’s DME value-added products.
• →This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in the office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.