Sr. Data Scientist

Visa USA Inc., a Visa Inc. company, needs a Sr. Data Scientist (multiple openings) in Ashburn, VA to

• Work within a team to generate business insights based on big data, identify actionable recommendations and communicate findings to clients.
• Brainstorm innovative ways to use our unique data to answer business problems.
• Communicate with clients to understand the challenges they face and convince them with data.
• Extract and understand data to form an opinion on how to best help our clients and derive relevant insights.
• Develop visualizations to make your complex analyses accessible to a broad audience.
• Find opportunities to craft products out of analyses that are suitable for multiple clients.
• Work with stakeholders throughout the organization to identify opportunities for leveraging Visa data to drive business solutions.
• Mine and analyze data from company databases to drive optimization and improvement of product, marketing techniques and business strategies for Visa and its clients.
• Assess the effectiveness and accuracy of new data sources and data gathering techniques.
• Develop custom data models and algorithms to apply to data sets.
• Use predictive modeling to increase and optimize customer experiences, revenue generation, data insights, and other business outcomes.
• Position reports to the Arlington, VA office and may allow for partial telecommuting.

Requirements

Basic Qualifications:

• Master's degree, or foreign equivalent, in Data Science, Business Analytics or related field and 2 years of experience in the job offered or in a data scientist related occupation.
• Python.
• Spark.
• Cloud Computing.
• Data Analytics.
• SQL.