Data Scientist

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.

CyberSource Corporation, a Visa Inc. company, needs a Data Scientist (multiple openings) in Foster City, CA to

• Work within a team to generate business insights based on big data, identify actionable recommendations and communicate the findings to clients. Brainstorm innovative ways to use our unique data to answer busines 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.
• Data extract automation, scripting, and validation.
• 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 Foster City, California office and may allow for partial telecommuting.

Basic Qualifications:

• Master's degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics or related field and 2 years of experience in the job offered or in a data scientist-related occupation.
• Using Python or similar programming language like R, Matlab, or Stata) to create quantitative models;
• Using statistical and domain knowledge to optimize model performance;
• Utilizing mathematical and statistical tools, packages and libraries like klearn, Pandas, Numpy, Jupyter Notebook or SAS) for scalable analysis and anomaly detection;
• Building data workflows and pipelines with Apache Airflow or similar workflow frameworks, and automating workflows to optimize pipeline efficiency;
• Generating variables to feed into Machine Learning models, and fine tuning parameters to optimize score distributions;
• Querying large datasets at scale with Spark, Pyspark, SQL or other query language;
• Processing and storing large datasets of gigabytes with Apache Hadoop;
• Coordinating with engineers, data scientists and product managers to maintain distributed storage;
• Building and enhancing internal systems to enable the collection and usage of data at scale;
• Making data usable for analysts, engineers and product managers by appropriate storage, computation, and processing of data;
• Experience in the domain of payment fraud and anomaly detection with complex data at scale; and
• Experience in the domain of e-Commerce and online payment scenarios

Worksite: Foster City, CA

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.

Travel Requirements: This position does not require travel.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

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.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is $129,400.00 USD to $200,500.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for an annual bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position is eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), Employee Stock Purchase Program, FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time off and Wellness Programs.