Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across 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.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

Join Visa: A Network Working for Everyone.

About us

Visa Managed Services (VMS) is the delivery arm of Visa Consulting and Analytics (VCA) team. We draw on our expertise in strategy, consulting, data analytics and industry experience to develop and implement fact-based recommendations to improve client performance. The VMS team specialise in recruiting the right talent into our client’s businesses to make changes happen.

About your role

Embedded at the client’s office, you’ll enjoy working in a collaborative team alongside experts from product, analytics, and marketing. Together, you’ll form out a roadmap of strategic activities, prioritize the items that need to be addressed and work with a cross-functional team to deliver results for the client.

You will work closely with the Data Science team to develop, implement and maintain models in areas such as predictive modelling, churn modelling, customer segmentation, time series and natural language. In this role, you will Influence and contribute to Data Science assessment and planning, maintaining, and ensuring alignment with the strategic direction for our analytics services, tools and platforms.

About you

Our ideal candidate is a confident problem solver and champion of Data Science, and can use new tools and techniques to solve business problems, and work collaboratively with the wider analytics team and platform to provide collective insight and value for stakeholders. Ideally, you have experience working with bank product teams and digital payments technologies and are energised by taking a task and developing and managing the pathway to the solution.  If you are driven by results and are customer-obsessed, we want you!

Key Competencies:

• Solution-mind set – Applying creative problem-solving techniques and championing a client-first approach to customer insights when opportunities and challenges arise to meet specific business objectives

• Active Contributor to Team Success - Actively participating as a member of a team to move the team toward the completion of goals. Makes suggestions for achieving team goals or performing team functions. Provides necessary assistance to remove obstacles to help the team accomplish its goals

• Building Strategic Work Relationships - Developing and using collaborative relationships to achieve work goals. Uses good interpersonal relationships by helping people feel valued, appreciated, and included in discussions (enhances self-esteem, empathises, involves, discloses, supports).

What you will need to be successful:

• Creating a business intelligence tool (in Power BI/Tableau) to report engagement metrics and the performance of a model over time.

• Ability to assist with model development with the support of more senior team members

• Ability to maintain the model performance (i.e., fit new features and ensure it is performing on the new time periods).

• Understanding of key concepts of Statistics and Statistical and Machine Learning techniques.

• Experience in creating analytical solutions using statistical or probabilistic decisioning.

• Experience with extracting and aggregating data from large data sets using SQL or other tools

• Proficient in SQL as an intermediate to advanced level, complemented by SPARK and HiveQL skills.

• Proficiency with analytics programming languages like R and Python with recent hands-on experience is highly preferred

• Experience with GitHub and Git Workflow is highly preferred

• Experience across major open-source repositories, e.g. CRAN/MRAN or PyPi

• Experience in using data driven analytics to develop dashboards, insights, and recommendations, specifically R / Posit Connect

• Ability to understand complex problems and take a structured approach using data-driven insights to solve problems

Things that should be familiar to you

• Strong communication skills to make complex concepts accessible for business stakeholders

• Ability to influence and collaborate at all levels without relying on hierarchy

• Good problem-solving skills, comfortable working in complex, challenging environments.

• Passion for your domain of expertise and highly inquisitive

• An ability to master new tools and skills as required.

• Outcome orientated, persistence to challenge the status quo and deliver customer results

• A Growth mindset, constantly striving to learn and develop

• You feel capable in managing multiple stakeholders in order to undercover, quantify and present key findings

• You’re a confident communicator and strong team player

You’re not expected to have 100% of these skills. If you have most of the skills required and this role sounds exciting to you, we'd love to hear from you!

Why Work with Us:

• Opportunity to work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment

• Take advantage of working across two organisations 

• Collaborative and supportive team culture

• Competitive salary and other perks including AUD1,000 well-being allowance and AUD4,000 study grant

• Professional development opportunities to grow your skills and career

• Opportunities to move internally to switch up your career

Become a valuable member of our team and contribute to our thriving organization. Apply now and show us what you’ve got!

Employees are expected to work from the office 3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site).

Join our team as a Jr. Data Scientist and unlock your potential in a challenging, dynamic, and fast-paced environment.

With your experience in data analytics and working in an agile environment, you'll be an essential part of our team, taking on challenging projects, delivering results, and doing it all within a supportive and collaborative workspace.

Enjoy a competitive salary, wellbeing perks, and endless opportunities for professional development and internal mobility. Don't miss out on this chance to showcase your skills!

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.