Visa
Senior Data Scientist
US - Austin, TX · Senior
No sponsorship$145k-$233kDetected 4 hours ago
PythonDistributed SystemsSQLMachine LearningDeep LearningTensorFlowPyTorchscikit-learnSparkData EngineeringData ScienceData VisualizationLLMsHadoop
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64Sponsors, lottery-bound
Cap-exempt (no lottery)0
Sponsors this role100
Entry-level history0
PERM / green-card track0
Lottery odds (Level IV)94
Fits your clock70
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About the role
- The position involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, translating analytics output into actionable recommendations, and communicating complex concepts to diverse audiences.
- Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.
- U.S. Applicants Only The estimated salary range for this position is $145,300.00 to $ 232,700.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable).
Responsibilities
- Lead and provide direction to technical data science teams, ensuring high-quality and rigorous project outcomes.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (product, engineering, marketing) to gather requirements and deliver scalable solutions.
- Manage end-to-end data science projects, including planning, organizing, and delivering results with diverse teams.
- Work with real-world, large-scale data sets to build and deploy scalable models.
Requirements
- Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States now and in the future without the need for sponsorship.
- At this time, we are unable to provide employment sponsorship.
Nice to have
- 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD
- Experience in managing data science projects from scoping to delivery.
- Experience in extracting and aggregating data from large data sets using SQL or other tools.
- Experience in creating reproducible analytic pipelines.
- Experience in data visualization using Tableau, Power BI, or R/Python.
- Experience in working with modern distributed systems, including Hadoop, Hive/SQL, and Apache Spark.
- Experience in communicating complex technical concepts to business audiences.
- Experience in leading project teams and providing technical direction.
Compensation
- The estimated salary range for this position is $145,300.00 to $ 232,700.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable).
Benefits
- Develop and implement advanced data science models, including deep learning, machine learning, recommendation systems, and generative models.
Company info
- Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.
- At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale - tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world.
- Join Visa and do work that matters - to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you.
- Job Description
- Join Visa and do work that matters - to you, to your community, and to the world.
- Progress starts with you.
- Data Scientists at the Consultant / Manager level are responsible for developing advanced data science models and leading technical project teams.
- The role requires hands-on experience with large-scale data sets, building scalable models, and applying machine learning and statistical techniques to solve business problems.
- All roles require digital fluency, including the ability to work with emerging technologies such as Generative AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot) to support everyday work.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.
- Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.
This listing is sourced directly from Visa's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.