What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff Data Scientist position at Visa?
Visa USA Inc., a Visa Inc. company, needs a Staff Data Scientist (multiple openings) in Washington, DC to:
- Building and validating predictive models with advanced machine learning techniques and tools to drive business value, interpreting and presenting modeling and analytical results to non-technical audience.
- Conducting research using latest and emerging modeling technologies and tools to solve new fraud detection business problems like merchant acceptance fraud detection and/or improve existing production models’ performance for fraud related business context.
- Improving the modeling process through MLOps and automation to drive efficiency and effectiveness.
- Partnering with a cross functional team of Product Managers, Data Engineers, Software Engineers, and Platform Engineers to deploy models and/or model innovations into production.
- Managing model risks in line with Visa Model Risk Management requirements.
- Conducting modeling analysis to address internal and external clients’ questions and requests.
- Position reports to the Washington, DC office and may allow for partial telecommuting.