Senior Data Scientist, Account Dedicated Team, Visa Consulting & Analytics at Visa

Team Summary The Visa Consulting and Analytics team provides analytics and consulting services to address client business problems leveraging market and internal data. In VCA, Managed Services team focuses on developing and improving clients’ business by collaborating with them closely including their data utilization. In addition to building and automating interpretable and actionable predictive models, we assist clients in execution of models and evaluation of results. The team interacts with stakeholders and team members across multiple functions, and thus strong intuition for developing analytic models that can solve specific business concerns is essential. The role further entails innovating new analytics services as we scale out our activities.   What a Senior Data Scientist does at Visa: • Executing multiple medium to large analytic projects along with rest of the stakeholders in analytics & consulting teams • Establishing best practices for change management, model automation and production rollout • Familiarity with batch processing and process monitoring for model refresh • Meeting with clients to explain model results, answer questions and propose further analysis • Collaborating closely with clients to analyze clients’ data, extract insights, and create dashboards • Actively seek out opportunities to improve processes and technologies • Collaborating with the internal teams to fully understand business requirements and desired business outcomes • Defining detailed analytic scope and methodology, and creating an analytic plan • Executing with appropriate statistical and machine learning techniques • Providing thought leadership in both using data to solve business problems and arriving at innovative technology and statistical solutions • Ensuring project delivery within timelines and budget requirements • Work as independent contributor mostly and as a team lead if needed by providing guidance to other team members when required  Why this is important to Visa VCA’s services allow our clients to boost their business performance through leveraging Visa’s expansive market insights and data. In addition, Managed Services team collaborates with clients closely in leveraging clients’ data and improving their business with data science capabilities. Our role in Japan in particular is pivotal in advancing the transition towards a more cashless payments landscape.   This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.