Data Science Manager

Visa; Frankfurt; Vor Ort; EUR 90.000 - 130.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Visa Consulting and Analytics (VCA) seeks a Data Science Manager to partner with VCA and co-develop data-driven solutions that help Visa’s clients grow their businesses.

You will lead data science projects, collaborate with Sales and Product teams, and translate complex analytics into actionable business outcomes. This role requires strong Python/SQL skills, experience with AI workflows, and the ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders.

Qualifikationen

• Advanced analytics and AI experience applying a range of techniques to solve real business problems and drive measurable outcomes.
• Strong hands-on capability in data preparation and feature engineering, including cleaning, transforming, and validating large datasets.
• Programming skills in Python and SQL, including production-grade data manipulation and ML workflows.
• Experience designing and implementing agentic AI workflows, including multi-step reasoning pipelines and orchestration frameworks.
• Familiarity with LLM integration patterns, including prompt engineering, RAG, function/tool calling, and memory management.
• Proven ability to translate business needs into end-to-end analytical/AI solutions, from framing to insight delivery and stakeholder adoption.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders, influencing decisions through storytelling and visualization.

Aufgaben

• Develop a deep understanding of Visa’s data assets and translate them into commercially viable propositions addressing client needs across acquisition, usage, and retention.
• Partner with Sales, VCA, and Product teams to identify opportunities, shape client conversations, and convert insights into funded projects.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define business problems, outcomes, and success metrics, translating them into analytical and delivery plans.
• Execute Data Science projects using appropriate statistical and AI techniques to generate business-centric insights, with strong storytelling and visualisation.

Kenntnisse

Advanced analytics

Feature engineering

AI workflows

LLM integration

Communication to stakeholders

End-to-end AI solutions

Tools

Python

SQL

pandas

scikit-learn

LangChain

LangGraph

AutoGen

Jobbeschreibung

About Us

Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

At Visa, you’ll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world.

Join Visa and do work that matters – to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you.

Job Description

What it’s all about -

Visa Consulting and Analytics (VCA) is the consulting arm of Visa, and drives tangible, impactful results for clients. Drawing on ourexpertisein consulting, data analytics, technology,paymentsand economics, VCA solves the most strategic problems for our clients.VCA’s core client segments include issuers, acquirers, merchants, fintechs, payment enablers and governments.

The Intelligence& Data Solutions (IDS) team at VCA consists of data scientists, analysts, and engineers who provide analytics solutions. Their goal is to leverageVisaNet, one of the largest datasets globally, to help clients enhance their performance and increase profitability.

We are seeking a passionate and ambitious Data Science Manager to partner with Visa Consulting & Analytics (VCA) and co-develop data-driven solutions to help Visa’s clients grow their businesses.

What we expect of you, day to day:

• Develop a deep understanding of Visa’s data assets and value‑added services, and proactively translate them into compelling, commercially viable propositions that address client needs across acquisition, usage, and retention.
• Partnering closely with Sales, VCA, and Product teams to identify opportunities, shape client conversations, and convert insights into funded projects.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to define clear business problems, commercial outcomes, and success metrics, translating them into structured analytical and delivery plans.
• Execute the Data Science projects, ensuring the use of appropriate statistical and AI techniques to generate clear, business‑centric insights, supported by strong storytelling and impactful visualisation.
• Provide subject‑matter expertise and quality assurance across complex Data Science engagements, ensuring analytical rigor, relevance, and alignment with client objectives.
• Identify recurring client needs and market trends emerging from commercial engagements, and actively feed these insights into Visa’s Data Science product and solution development roadmap.

Visa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Qualifications

What we’d like from you-

• Advanced analytics and AI experience applying a range of techniques (e.g., predictive modeling, machine learning, experimentation, agentic AI systems) to solve real business problems and drive measurable outcomes.
• Strong hands‑on capability in data preparation and feature engineering, including cleaning, transforming, and validating large, complex datasets.
• Programming skills in Python and SQL, including production‑grade data manipulation and ML workflows (e.g., pandas, scikit‑learn or equivalent libraries), and the ability to work efficiently with large datasets.
• Experience designing and implementing agentic AI workflows, including multi‑step reasoning pipelines, tool‑augmented agents, and orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, or equivalent), with the ability to evaluate agent reliability and manage failure modes in production.
• Familiarity with large language model (LLM) integration patterns, including prompt engineering, retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG), function/tool calling, and memory management within agentic architectures.
• Proven ability to translate business needs into end‑to‑end analytical/AI solutions, from problem framing and methodology design to insight delivery and stakeholder adoption — including solutions that leverage autonomous or semi‑autonomous AI agents.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly and credibly to non‑technical stakeholders, influencing decisions through storytelling, visualization, and structured recommendations.

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.