As Senior Data Science Manager, you are leading our growing Data Science function in the advisory service Visa Consulting & Analytics (VCA) and are part of Visa’s global Data Science community. You are accountable for driving the blueprint, development and delivery of data driven strategies and solutions for Visa’s external clients in the Nordics and Baltics. In this role, you collaborate with management consultants, account executives, business development and other internal functions to support our clients’ with their most pressing issues and biggest opportunities. Your innovative and scalable solutions help drive the clients’ and Visa’s business performance as well as enhance payment experiences of millions of customers across the region.
- Designing and delivering powerful business-centric insights from data through storyboarding, analytics, visualization and ML – both hands-on yourself as well as by supervising team members
- Collaborating with VCA consultants and key clients to understand their challenges and realize their opportunities on topics like customer lifecycle management, travel, SMEs, open banking, cryptocurrencies, sustainability and more
- Demonstrating execution proficiency in handling multiple medium to large data science projects along with rest of the partners in the project team within timelines and budget requirements; working at a fast pace, being self-directed, and able to lead multiple concurrent challenges, issues and priorities
- Showcasing individual & organizational leadership: developing solutions to meet the varying payment needs of everyone, everywhere; being mission driven and passionate about having a lasting impact by inspiring change in the payments industry
- Team oriented, collaborative, diplomatic, and agile working style
- Experience with Hadoop, SQL or Spark as well as Python or R
- Experience in the application of descriptive analytics, predictive modelling and machine learning technique to business problems
- Experience planning, organizing, and leading end to end projects with diverse cross-functional teams
- Experience building and cultivating teams
- Ability to tailor data-driven results and communicate with impact to various audience levels, incl. senior business leaders.
Visa (NYSE: V) is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories. Visa's purpose is to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.
