Director, Data Science

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Job Description

Payments Industry is a very exciting and fast-developing area with lot of new and innovative solutions coming to market. With strong demand for new solutions in this space, it promises to be an exciting area of innovation. VISA is a strong leader in the payment industry and is rapidly transitioning into a technology company with significant investments in this area.

If you want to be in the exciting payment space, learn fast and make big impacts, Ecosystem & Operational Risk technology which is part of Visa’s Value-Added Services business unit is an ideal place for you!

In Ecosystem & Operational Risk (EOR) technology group, the Payment Fraud Disruption team is responsible for building critical risk and fraud detection and prevention applications and services at Visa. This includes idea generation, architecture, design, development, and testing of products, applications, and services that provide Visa clients with solutions to detect, prevent, and mitigate fraud for Visa and Visa client payment systems.

We are in search of inquisitive, creative, and skillful technologists to join our ranks. We are currently looking for a Director of Software Engineering who will take the lead and manage several strategic initiatives within our organization.

The right candidate will possess strong software engineering background, with demonstrated leadership experience in driving technical architecture, design and delivery of products and services that have created business value and delivered impact within the payments or payments risk domain or similar industries.

This position is ideal for an experienced engineering leader who is passionate about collaborating with business and technology partners and engineers to solve challenging business problems. You will be a key driver in the effort to define the shared strategic vision for the Payment Fraud Disruption platform and defining tools and services that safeguard Visa’s payment systems. 

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications
15+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 15 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 4 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 16+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications
15+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor’s degree, OR 15+ years of relevant work experience with Advanced degree
Experience leading product development & delivery of AI/ML solutions, applied to real-world problems
Experience leading design and development of mission-critical, secure, reliable systems
Experience leading delivery across multiple technologies: Python, Java/J2EE, Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, Hive, MySQL, Hadoop, Spark, Scala, design patterns, test automation frameworks
Experience leading delivery of streaming analytics platforms
Excellent understanding of algorithms and data structures
Excellent problem solving and analytics skills. Capable of forming and advocating an independent viewpoint
Strong experience with agile methodologies
Excel in partnering with Product leaders and technical product managers on requirements workshops, helping define joint product/technology roadmaps & driving prioritization
Experience driving continuous improvements to processes/tools for better developer efficiency and productivity
Demonstrated ability to drive measurable improvements across engineering, delivery and performance metrics
Demonstrated success in leading high performing, multi-disciplinary and geographically distributed engineering teams. Demonstrated ability to hire, develop and retain high-caliber talent
Must demonstrate longer-term strategic thinking and staying abreast with latest technologies to assess what’s possible technically
Strong collaboration and effective communication, with focus on win-win outcomes

Additional Information

Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.