Data Scientist

Tink; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 98,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

A global payments technology leader is seeking a Data Scientist to devise innovative solutions using data. This hybrid role involves heavy client interaction, model development, and analyzing sizable datasets. Applicants should have at least 2 years of experience and a Bachelor's degree in an analytical field. Notable skills include machine learning, SQL, and statistical programming. A comprehensive benefits package, including medical and wellness programs, is offered, along with a competitive salary range from $98,700 CAD to $139,600 CAD.

Benefits

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Employee Stock Purchase Program

Paid Vacation

Wellness Programs

Qualifications

• 2 or more years of work experience in data science or related fields.
• Experience with machine learning model development and deployment.
• Competence in tools like SQL and statistical software (Python, R).

Responsibilities

• Communicate with clients to understand their challenges.
• Build and experiment with machine learning models.
• Develop visualizations for complex analyses.

Skills

Data-based decision-making

Quantitative analysis

Machine learning

SQL

Python

Excel

Tableau

Education

Bachelor's degree in an analytical field

Advanced degree (Masters, MBA, etc.)

Job description

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.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Job Description

Essential Functions

• Be an out-of-the-box thinker who is passionate about brainstorming innovative ways to use our unique data to answer business problems
• Communicate with clients to understand the challenges they face and convince them with data
• Build and experiment with machine learning and generative AI models by applying a variety of statistical and computational techniques
• Apply AI-enabled tools to streamline everyday work, including data exploration and model development
• Extract and understand data to form an opinion on how to best help our clients and derive relevant insights
• Develop visualizations to make your complex analyses accessible to a broad audience
• Find opportunities to craft products out of analyses that are suitable for multiple clients
• Work with stakeholders throughout the organization to identify opportunities for leveraging Visa data to drive business solutions.
• Mine and analyze data from company databases to drive optimization and improvement of product, marketing techniques and business strategies for Visa and its clients
• Assess the effectiveness and accuracy of new data sources and data gathering techniques.
• Develop custom data models and algorithms to apply to data sets.
• Use predictive modeling to increase and optimize customer experiences, revenue generation, data insights, advertising targeting and other business outcomes.
• Develop processes and tools to monitor and analyze model performance and data accuracy.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• 2 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD, or PhD)

Preferred Qualifications

• 3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)
• 2+ years’ experience in data-based decision-making or quantitative analysis
• Bachelor’s degree in an analytical field such as statistics, operations research, economics, computer science or many others (graduate degree is a plus)
• Experience with extracting and aggregating data from large data sets using SQL or other tools
• Competence in Excel, PowerPoint and Tableau
• Experience in machine learning model development and deployment
• Experience in understanding and analyzing data using statistical software (e.g., Python, R, Stata or others)
• Previous exposure to financial services, credit cards or merchant analytics is a plus, but not required

Additional Information

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 welcomes and encourages applications from persons with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

Visa is looking to fill vacant position Data Scientist The anticipated compensation range for this position is $98,700 CAD to $139,600 CAD per year, which includes sales incentive payments/annual bonus. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position is eligible that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, Employee Stock Purchase Program, Life Insurance, Paid Vacation and Wellness Programs. Visa may use artificial intelligence when assessing and selecting candidates.