Team Summary
Data Science team is a key part of decision management engine at Visa; this is a high-performing team of data scientists, data analysts, statisticians, and business analysts from a variety of countries – serving major FIs and merchants in Asia Pacific. Analytics & Data Products is looking for a hands-on person that earns trust and respect of the team. The person must be results oriented, highly organized, and must, must be focused on delivering innovative analytics work.
What a Director Data Solution Engagement does at Visa:
The Director will be working together with other members in the team to design and deliver projects with the appropriate analytic methodologies and techniques to solve client’s business objectives. The team closely collaborates with business stakeholders to understand the business problem in order to determine the most appropriate analytic approach that provides meaningful results to clients. Responsibilities include delivering projects on time and within scope with an in-depth knowledge of data analytics and cutting-edge data mining techniques as well as the use of predictive, classification and alternate analytic algorithms for modeling and segmentation. These analyses are foundational to corroborate or refute stated hypotheses and are incorporated in the final client-facing solutions. The team is responsible for continuously creating and protecting analytic IP resulting from project learning.
Responsibilities
- Directing the execution of medium to large analytic projects along with rest of the stakeholders in both internal and external
- Collaborating with the different teams to fully understand business requirements and desired business outcomes
- Defining detailed analytic scope and methodology, and creating analytic plan
- Executing on the analytic plan with appropriate data mining and analytic techniques
- Performing QA on data and deliverables by analysts and own deliverables
- Ensuring all project documentation is up to date and all projects are reviewed per analytic plan
- Ensuring project delivery within timelines and budget requirements
- Building on team’s analytical skills and business knowledge
- Work as independent contributor mostly and as a team lead if needed by providing guidance to other team members where needed
- Enhancing existing analytic techniques by promoting new methodology and best practices in analytics field
- Providing subject matter expertise and quality assurance of complex data driven analytic projects