Senior Data Engineer – MLOps

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in 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 while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

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Job Description

To ensure that Visa’s payment technology is truly available to everyone, everywhere requires the success of our key bank or merchant partners and internal business units. The Global Data Science group supports these partners by using our extraordinarily rich data set that spans more than 3 billion cards globally and captures more than 100 billion transactions in a single year. Our focus lies on building creative solutions that have an immediate impact on the business of our highly analytical partners. We work in complementary teams comprising members from Data Science and various groups at Visa. To support our rapidly growing group we are looking for data engineers who are equally passionate about the opportunity to use Visa’s rich data to tackle meaningful business problems.

This position will be part of VCA (Visa Consulting & Analytics) function in building and maintaining global data assets and engineering solutions. In this role, you will be responsible for helping to develop a global engineering and solutions team focused in standardized development of Consulting Solutions. You will partner closely with Global stakeholders in Visa consulting, data Science and data engineering teams. You will get a chance to leverage your strategic planning, business analysis and technical knowledge of data engineering, tools and data architecture solutions. In addition to managing our portfolio of data engineering assets and solutions globally, you will play key roles in building relationships with Consulting partners to develop effective market response strategies. You will also be a hands-on expert able to direct & navigate both data engineering and data science teams to build effective data engineering solutions. The ideal candidate will have a mixed background with data engineering, data science, and machine learning engineering.

Essential Functions

• Build MLOps pipelines to support model development, model production, model validation, model performance monitoring, model recalibration, continuous integration, continuous delivery of AI/ML models.
• New model development and existing model re-training, performance evaluation and score optimization. Preferable to have data science knowledge and experience in designing, developing and implementing Deep Learning methodologies, and newer ML model implementations at scale.
• Build and maintain high performing ETL processes including data quality and testing aligned across technology, internal reporting and other functional teams.
• Build ETL pipelines in Spark, Python, HIVE or Scala that process transaction and account level data and standardize data fields across various data sources.
• Exposure to model management and governance practices. Ability to take decisions around model drift to monitor and refine models continuously.
• Create data dictionaries, setup/monitor data validation alerts and execute periodic jobs like performance dashboards, predictive models scoring for client’s deliverables.
• Define and build technical/data documentation and experience with code version control systems (for e.g., git). Ensure data accuracy, integrity and consistency.
• Strong understanding of development and implementation aspects of ML/AI, especially on billion-scale datasets. Ability to take small scale developed models as input and implement with requisite configuration and customization, while maintaining model performance.
• Should have strong problem-solving capabilities and ability to quickly propose feasible solutions and effectively communicate strategy and risk mitigation approaches to leadership.

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.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• 5 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelors Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD.

Preferred Qualifications

• 6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD.
• Minimum of 5+ years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or 3+ years of experience with a Master’s or Advanced Degree in a Quantitative field such as Statistics, Mathematics, Operational Research, Computer Science, Economics, Engineering, or equivalent with analytics expertise in applying statistical solutions to business problems.
• Working knowledge of Hadoop ecosystem and associated technologies (For e.g. Apache Spark, MLlib, GraphX, iPython, sci-kit, Pandas etc.).
• Good business acumen to orient data analysis to business needs of clients.
• Ability to translate data and technical concepts into requirements documents, business cases and user stories.
• Good understanding of agile working practices and related program management skills.
• Good communication and presentation skills with ability to interact with different cross-functional team members at varying levels.
• Ability to learn new tools and paradigms as data science continues to evolve at Visa and elsewhere.
• Demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor, team oriented, energetic, collaborative, diplomatic, and flexible style.
• Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal skills needed to effectively communicate technical insights and recommendations with business customers and leadership team.
• Intellectually curious and continuously striving to learn.

Technical Skills

• Expert knowledge in Deep Learning techniques and exploring newer approaches like federated learning and transfer learning.
• Strong programming ability in different programming languages such as Spark, Python, SQL, Scala.
• Experience working with Airflow, Github for building and maintaining ETL pipeline.
• Proficient in some or all of the following techniques - Linear & Logistic Regression, Decision Trees, XG Boost, Random Forests, K-Nearest Neighbors, Markov Chain, Monte Carlo, Gibbs Sampling, Evolutionary Algorithms, Support Vector Machines.
• Proficient in advanced data mining and statistical modeling techniques, including Predictive modeling (e.g., binomial and multinomial regression, ANOVA), Classification techniques (e.g., Clustering, Principal Component Analysis, factor analysis), Decision Tree techniques (e.g., CART, CHAID).
• Experience working with large scale data ingestion, processing and storage in distributed computing environments/big data platforms (Hadoop) as well as common database systems and value stores (Parquet, Avro, HBase, etc.).
• Familiarity with both common computing environments (e.g., Linux, Shell Scripting) and commonly used IDE’s (Jupyter Notebooks).
• Experience working in building and integrating the code in the defined CI/CD framework using git.
• Preferred experience with Visualization Tools like Tableau, Power BI and D3.

Additional Information

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

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.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 144,600.00 to 188,000.00 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.