Principal Data Scientist

A Principal Data Engineer in the VAS PD (Value Added Services Product Development) team under Digital Marketing and Engagement (DME) at Visa leads the architecture design and delivery of large-scale marketing data platforms and advanced data products. This strategic role focuses on building new value-added digital engagement products and enhancing marketing capabilities for Visas clients globally.

Key Responsibilities :

• Architect design and deliver high-performing extensible and reusable data engineering systems that enable real-time and batch marketing analytics and engagement solutions at scale.
• Define technical standards frameworks and best practices for resilient and secure data pipeline development ensuring adherence to all compliance privacy and security requirements for marketing and customer engagement datasets.
• Build and maintain robust ETL and ELT processes and data marts leveraging big data and cloud technologies such as Spark Hive Hadoop Kafka AWS and Azure.
• Deliver and monitor quality completeness and performance of marketing data platforms through instrumentation benchmarking and automated testing.
• Transform Visas digital offerings by integrating AI ML and GenAI capabilities for next-level campaign optimization personalization and customer loyalty measurement.
• Lead and influence multiple teams with a culture of innovation and drive for engineering excellence mentoring and developing talent to sustain high-functioning purpose-driven teams.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product owners business partners and cybersecurity experts to clarify business requirements and translate them into scalable technical solutions for global digital engagement.
• Explore map and negotiate access to new data sources. Champion a data-driven culture through training knowledge sharing and internal documentation.
• Continuously stay ahead of emerging trends industry best practices and innovative data technologies to strengthen the competitiveness of Visas DME value-added products.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in the office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Qualifications :

Basic Qualifications :

12 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or at least 10 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters / MBA / JD / MD) or a minimum of 5 years of work experience with a PhD

Preferred Qualifications :

15 or more years of experience with a Bachelors Degree or 12 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters MBA JD or MD) PhD with 9 years of experience

Bachelors degree with twelve or more years of experience or a Masters / PhD with relevant experience in data engineering computer science or related fields.

Strong hands-on experience with big data platforms distributed computing real-time systems and open-source technologies relevant to analytics and engagement (for example Hadoop Spark Flink Kafka Hive).

Hands-on coding and production deployment expertise in Python Java SQL Scala Go or C.

Track record integrating AI ML and GenAI into analytics and marketing platforms at scale.

Deep understanding of data architecture pipeline optimization testing monitoring and data governance for marketing and consumer engagement applications.

Previous experience building and scaling enterprise-class high-volume transaction systems is highly valued.

Demonstrated leadership and ability to influence develop and collaborate across global teams.

Prefer prior exposure to payments fintech marketing or customer engagement platforms.

Additional Skills & Attributes

Excellence in stakeholder management agile project delivery and innovation.

Competence with cloud-native data tools CI / CD automation and modern DevOps practices.

Analytical mindset problem-solving ability and strategic vision for continuous product evolution.

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.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY : The estimated salary range for a new hire into this position is 230500.00 to 334700.00 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 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.

Remote Work : No

Employment Type : Full-time

Key Skills

Machine Learning,Python,Data Science,AI,R,Research Experience,Sensors,Drug Discovery,Research & Development,Natural Language Processing,Data Analysis Skills,Toxicology Experience

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1