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Visa U.S.A. Inc., a Visa Inc. company, needs a Sr. Data Scientist (multiple openings) in Foster City, CA to:

• Provide leadership and support in identifying, implementing, and managing new data tools and processes, relevant to data science.
• Provide technical product and business support for development of new platforms, tools for data science built using both on-prem and cloud technologies.
• Partner with technology on a quarterly planning cycle and support management with relevant metrics to evaluate performance, stability, and reliability of various tools.
• Improve Infrastructure efficiency by analyzing logs of queries, tuning settings, translating queries if required.
• Script reviews for best practices, educating user base and building training assets for beginner and intermediate users.
• Provide policy guidance and administration of data science tools including git, ETL schedulers, Spark to ensure optimum utilization and efficiency.
• Manage file transfer applications to optimize the data ingestion and sharing processes with partners for sensitive data and organize data sets to optimize run time of routine queries.
• Increase consistency of tool usage by developing guidance for standard toolsets for specific data science applications and sharing with user community.
• Track issues at their respective geographic locations to provide data scientists support in their time zones.
• Responsible for the technical coordination of application development project deliverables that include architecture, design, and software development for proof of concepts.
• Interact with business units to define requirements, modifications, and use cases to utilize in designing appropriate solutions at scale, documentation, and sharing.
• Coordinate design activities and testing frameworks, and ensure technology decisions are business and data driven.
• Position reports to the Foster City, CA office and may allow for partial telecommuting.

• Employer will accept a Bachelor's degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Engineering or related field followed by 8 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or in a data scientist or software engineer-related occupation.
• Software development with one programming language and version control system;
• SQL for extracting and aggregating data;
• Unix, Shell or Python scripting;
• SFTP; and
• Scheduling.

Worksite: Foster City, CA

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Travel Requirements:  This position does not require travel.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting.  The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

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.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law, including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is $186,846.00 to $231,400.00 USD per year, which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, 401 (k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program.