Senior Manager, Issuing Advisory - Data Science

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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.

Why Visa?

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. Your work will have a direct impact on millions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement. In addition, Graduates who choose to join us gain:

• One of the most highly recognised and respected brands in the world
• High geographical mobility with over 85 offices globally and operating in over 200 countries – enabling to take your career to new and exciting places
• Global mentoring and networking opportunities
• World-class training and support

Job Description

The position will be based in Visa’s Sydney office. We seek a data scientist with experience in data preparation, data analysis, story – telling  and communicating insights to internal and external stakeholders . You will be working with VISA’s big data sets and in certain cases in conjunction with our clients’ data.

The candidate should possess hands on experience with associated technologies and ability to collaborate across teams and functions to deliver value to VISA and our clients.

The successful candidate will have opportunities to work on huge varieties of problems across Issuers business. 

We need a dedicated, technical, proactive, and energetic who accepts challenges and is a confirmed problem solver.

In return a competitive salary is on offer with a base range between $170k-$190k + super + bonus.

What is Visa Consulting & Analytics?

Visa Consulting & Analytics (VCA) is Visa's consulting division, serving Visa's clients (including card issuers, acquirers, and merchants) and solving their strategic problems focused on improving performance and profitability.  Drawing on our expertise in strategy consulting, payments, data analytics, marketing, operational and macroeconomics, VCA drives high impact and tangible financial results.

Responsibilities:

• Work within the project team to support the design, development, and delivery of data science/engineering solutions to VISA clients, adhering to scope and timelines
• Building and maintaining positive relationships with clients.
• Providing mentorship to junior team members
• Partner with roles across the organisation including consultants, engineering, and data scientists to address prioritized business problems
• Build data driven solutions/data science models aligned with client's priorities and leading different vendors for the execution if required
• Break large solutions into smaller, releasable phases and seek feedback from product owners, clients, and other partners
• Define detailed scope and methodology, design and create solutions, and implement using appropriate tools and techniques
• Support development of a robust system for measuring and optimising the quality of deployed algorithms and models
• Maintain AI models in production to evaluate performance, model drift, and decay
• Actively seek out opportunities to innovate by using VisaNet, external data and new modelling techniques fit for purpose to the needs of our clients
• Make sure that the legal/compliance/security related requirements are fully adhered to

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• Qualification in Data Science/Computer Science
• Experience being data scientist/engineer or analytics consultant
• Hands-on experience in developing AI models, scaling data solutions, and delivering end-to-end data science projects
• Experience working with large and multi-dimensional datasets
• Proficient in implementing standard classification and clustering algorithms
• Proficient in big data aggregation using Hive, Spark, SQL and Python
• Experience with visualisation tools, such as Power BI, Tableau, or similar.
• Outstanding problem-solving skills
• Strong internal team and external client management with a collaborative, diplomatic, and flexible style, able to work effectively in a matrixed organisation
• Exhibit intellectual curiosity and strive to continually learn, self-motivated and results oriented individual with the ability to handle numerous projects
• Ability to learn new tools and paradigms as data science continues to evolve at Visa and elsewhere
• Demonstrated resource planning and delivery skills
• Good communication and presentation skills with ability to interact with different cross-functional team members at varying leve
• Understanding of the Payments and Banking Industry including aspects such as consumer credit, consumer debit, prepaid, small business, commercial, co-branded and merchant will be a plus
• Consultancy experience is a plus

Technical Expertise

• Experience in writing and optimizing efficient SQL queries, Hive, Python and Spark
• Expertise in dashboard and report development using Tableau or Power BI
• Good understanding of Agile way of working
• Experience in deployment, operationalization of Machine Learning models
• Experience with Apache Airflow would be an advantage
• Experience of cloud-based data science platforms would be beneficial

Business and Leadership competencies

• Quality-focused professional with strong problem-solving abilities and a proven track record in tackling sophisticated analytical challenges
• Detail oriented to ensure the highest level of quality in reports and data analysis
• Proficient in translating analytics output to actionable recommendations and delivery
• Skilled at presenting data-driven insights to audiences with varying levels of technical understanding
• Exhibits intellectual curiosity and a desire for continuous learning

Additional Information

At Visa, your individuality fits right in. Working here gives you an opportunity to impact the world, invest in your career growth, and be part of an inclusive and diverse workplace. We are a global team of disruptors, trailblazers, innovators and risk-takers who are helping drive economic growth in even the most remote parts of the world, creatively moving the industry forward, and doing meaningful work that brings financial literacy and digital commerce to millions of unbanked and underserved consumers.

You're an Individual. We're the team for you. Together, let's transform the way the world pays.