Senior Data Scientist
VisaCalifornia, United States
Posted March 2, 2026
161400 - 258500 USD
Full Time
About the Company
Visa is a global leader in digital payments, enabling seamless transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries. The company focuses on providing secure, reliable, and innovative payment technology that supports both consumer and business needs. Visa's platform is distinguished by its extensive network, real-time processing capabilities, and commitment to financial inclusion, aiming to uplift everyone, everywhere. Its reputation for reliability and continuous innovation makes it the preferred choice for businesses and individuals seeking the best way to pay and be paid worldwide.
Job Description
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.
Requirements
- Provide technical leadership in a team that generates 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 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
- Partner with a variety of Visa teams to provide comprehensive solutions
- Synthesize ideas/proposals in writing and engage in productive discussions with external or internal stakeholders
- Provide guidance in modern analytic techniques and business applications to unlock the value of Visa’s unique data set, in keeping with market trends, client needs and emerging techniques
- Organize and manage multiple data science projects with diverse cross-functional stakeholders
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- 401 (k)
- FSA/HSA
- Life Insurance
- Paid Time Off
- Wellness Program