Data Scientist

Visa • Washington, DC

7d • Hybrid

About The Position

Visa USA Inc., a Visa Inc. company, needs a Data Scientist (multiple openings) in Washington, DC to Use and build new predictive models to innovate and optimize customer experiences, revenue generation, data insights, advertising targeting and other business outcomes. Be an out-of-the-box problem solver who is passionate about applying data science techniques and innovate thinking to our unique data to help our clients both innovate and solve the problems they face. Work with your data science colleagues as well as other teams across the company to guide the critical thinking for our clients by using the data and tools available. Connect with clients as well as client teams regarding the results and strategic recommendations advised by your analyses. Develop visualizations to make your sophisticated analyses accessible to a broad audience. Find opportunities to craft products out of analyses that are suitable for multiple clients. Work with partners throughout the organization to explore opportunities for using company data to drive business solutions. Position requires 5% domestic travel. Position reports to the Washington, DC office and may allow for partial telecommuting.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Statistics, Operations Research, Data Science, Business Analytics, Economics, Computer Science, or a related field and 2 years of experience in a data-based decision-making or quantitative analysis or data scientist-related occupation.
• Analyzing financial data using programming languages like Python.
• Strong background in mathematical modeling, probability, and statistics.
• Extracting and aggregating data from large data sets using SQL, Hive, Spark and Presto using advanced querying techniques.
• Experience building custom open-source python packages for automating and model evaluation.
• Experience in developing and optimizing machine learning models and algorithms using scikit-learn, xgboost, TensorFlow, Keras, Optuna, using machine learning platforms.
• Building insightful analyses/visualizations using Excel, PowerPoint, Tableau and PowerBI.
• Experience working in and collaborating across inter-disciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Use and build new predictive models to innovate and optimize customer experiences, revenue generation, data insights, advertising targeting and other business outcomes.
• Be an out-of-the-box problem solver who is passionate about applying data science techniques and innovate thinking to our unique data to help our clients both innovate and solve the problems they face.
• Work with your data science colleagues as well as other teams across the company to guide the critical thinking for our clients by using the data and tools available.
• Connect with clients as well as client teams regarding the results and strategic recommendations advised by your analyses.
• Develop visualizations to make your sophisticated analyses accessible to a broad audience.
• Find opportunities to craft products out of analyses that are suitable for multiple clients.
• Work with partners throughout the organization to explore opportunities for using company data to drive business solutions.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level