data
2 hours ago*
Data Scientist
at Visa
📍 Colombia·🏢 On-site
Requirements
- experience in the payments industry.
- Adept at creative and critical thinking, the candidate can deconstruct complex problems and translate insights into scalable, state‑of‑the‑art analytical and AI‑powered solutions.
- The candidate is a quick learner, highly hands‑on, and demonstrates a strong sense of ownership and accountability.
- This role will also contribute to the design, prototyping, and implementation of Generative AI and agent based solutions, supporting the evolution of consulting workflows toward agentic driven processes.
- Experience: BA/BS required Master’s degree preferred (e.g., Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields). 3+ years of overall professional experience, with a preferred minimum of 2 years in Banking, Payments, Financial Services, or Technology.
- Experience designing and implementing analytics and machine learning solutions in business contexts.
- Technical Skills: Ability to design practical algorithms and write high‑quality, scalable code for gigabyte‑ to terabyte‑scale datasets. Proven hands‑on
- experience in advanced analytics and statistical modeling (e.g., linear/logistic regression, clustering, classification, decision trees/random forests).
- Experience using distributed computing technologies such as Hadoop (MapReduce, Pig, Hive) and Spark for batch and/or streaming data processing.
- Proficiency in Python for data analysis and machine learning.
- Experience with data visualization tools such as Tableau and Power BI.
- Familiarity with building analytical workflows, data pipelines, and automation solutions.
- Generative AI Skills (Required / Desirable): Hands‑on
- experience or strong exposure to Generative AI, LLM based tools, or AI agents. Understanding of prompting strategies, embeddings, RAG architectures, and LLM capabilities and limitations.
- Experience prototyping AI‑powered solutions to automate or augment analytical and business processes.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities while meeting deadlines.
- Fluency in English (spoken and written).
Benefits
- 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.