Lead AI/ML Platform Engineer

  • Full-time
  • Job Family Group: Technology and Operations

Company Description

As the world's leader in digital payments technology, Visa's mission is to connect the world through the most creative, reliable and secure payment network - enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive. Our advanced global processing network, VisaNet, provides secure and reliable payments around the world, and is capable of handling more than 65,000 transaction messages a second. The company's dedication to innovation drives the rapid growth of connected commerce on any device, and fuels the dream of a cashless future for everyone, everywhere. As the world moves from analog to digital, Visa is applying our brand, products, people, network and scale to reshape the future of commerce.

At Visa, your individuality fits right in. Working here gives you an opportunity to impact the world, invest in your career growth, and be part of an inclusive and diverse workplace. We are a global team of disruptors, trailblazers, innovators and risk-takers who are helping drive economic growth in even the most remote parts of the world, creatively moving the industry forward, and doing meaningful work that brings financial literacy and digital commerce to millions of unbanked and underserved consumers.

You're an Individual. We're the team for you. Together, let's transform the way the world pays.

 

Job Description

We're looking for an experienced Technology Leader to spearhead the launch and operation of our internal AI-Platform-as-a-Service offering for our analytics and research communities. You would gather customer’s technical needs and the business drivers, synthesize it into a multi-quarter technical product roadmap and anticipate / manage expectations of stakeholders in the company. You'll also be responsible for bringing in the best practices in machine learning from the field. In general, you are able to provide sound methods and identify key results to support strategic decisions. Ideally, you have excellent communication skills, and you can work effectively and efficiently with everyone from fellow analysts to business partners.

Responsibilities

  • Build the vision, strategy, and roadmap of AI big-bets that Visa should invest in to drive steep impact for our products.
  • Shape the direction of Visa's core products by applying cutting-edge AI innovations to tackle problems in consumer marketing and fraud prevention.
  • Build new AI technologies, services, and platforms for areas such as TensorFlow, H2O and PyTorch to name a few, that operate at Visa scale and power Visa's data product offerings.
  • Accelerate time to impact on new technologies through experimentation, prototyping, and strong execution.
  • Have a clear pulse on innovations across the broader AI community and help us identify new opportunities and look around corners.
  • Identify and track key success metrics for the AI Platforms.
  • Work with management to prioritize business and AI platform needs
  • Explore and define new process improvement opportunities
  • Present ongoing reports and findings to management and business partners
  • Integrate the AI platforms with existing Big Data and Analytics platforms
  • Engage directly on all aspects of building the platform – GPUs, hardware, network, performance, scalability, architecture, build, implementation, operation and optimization

Qualifications

  • BS or MS in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Economics, Engineering, or other related field
  • Strong leadership, persuasion and teamwork skills. Execution experience to drive multiple projects.
  • Excellent communication skills: ability to translate robust analytics and metrics into simple to understand takeaways, and comfort creating presenting findings to management and business partners
  • Ability to develop and maintain effective relationships with key product partners
  • A strategic thinker who can help craft plans to multiple stakeholders.
  • A collaborator who can work across operating styles and can bring together multiple perspectives.
  • Strategic planning expertise, the ability to lead change, and the dream to operate effectively within a dynamic organization
  • Strengths in meeting objectives through influence, facilitation and team building
  • Strong analytical skills with ability to collect organize; analyze significant amounts of information and massive datasets (expertise in SQL, Hive)
  • Technical expertise in data mining: statistical distribution, missing/outliers data statistics, segmentation, regression, A/B testing, hypothesis testing, etc.
  • Experience with Hadoop/Spark, Kubernetes, TensorFlow, Caffe and H20.ai
  • Experience developing analytic products, technologies, and platforms
  • Experience building new AI/ML technologies

Additional Information

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.

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