Team Summary
The Visa Consulting and Analytics (VCA) team provides analytics and consulting services to address client business problems leveraging market and internal data. VCA Managed Services is a suite of service offerings that together help drive the future growth of the VCA organization, enabling our clients to implement the recommendations derived through strategic advisory engagements. The team focuses on developing and improving clientsâ business by collaborating with them closely including their data utilization. And in addition to building and automating interpretable and actionable predictive models, we assist clients in execution of models and evaluation of results.
The team interacts with stakeholders and team members across multiple functions, and thus strong intuition for developing analytic models that can solve specific business concerns is essential. The role further entails innovating new analytics services as we scale out our activities.
What a Data Science Lead does at Visa:
- Lead, mentor, and manage a team of data scientists, fostering a collaborative and inclusive environment that encourages innovation and continuous learning. Set clear team goals, oversee project execution, and manage team performance.
- Develop and implement strategic plans for the data science team, ensuring alignment with the company's objectives. Facilitate communication and collaboration between the data science team and other departments to ensure effective execution of data-driven initiatives.
- Hands-on managing and executing multiple medium to large complex analytic projects along with rest of the stakeholders in analytics & consulting teams
- Familiarity with batch processing and process monitoring for model refresh
- Meeting with key clients to explain model results, answer questions and propose further analysis
- Collaborating closely with key clients to analyze clientsâ data, extract insights, and create dashboards
- Taking the lead in discussing with clientsâ data science, corporate planning, and marketing teams to identify opportunities
- Collaborating with the internal teams to fully understand business requirements and desired business outcomes
- Defining detailed analytic scope and methodology, and creating an analytic plan
- Executing with appropriate statistical and machine learning techniques
- Providing thought leadership in both using data to solve business problems and arriving at innovative technology and statistical solutions
- Accountable in ensuring project delivery within timelines and budget requirements
Why this is important to Visa
VCAâs services allow our clients to boost their business performance through leveraging Visaâs expansive market insights and data. In addition, Managed Services team collaborates with clients closely in leveraging clientsâ data and improving their business with data science capabilities. Our role in Japan in particular is pivotal in advancing the transition towards a more cashless payments landscape.