Lead data science and machine learning efforts for scalable intelligence across the payments ecosystem.

Partner with a cross-functional team of data scientists, software engineers, and product managers to deliver customer-focused products
Apply a broad technology stack including Python, Conda, AWS, H2O, and Spark to extract insights from large volumes of numeric and textual data
Develop machine learning models across the full lifecycle: design, training, evaluation, validation, and implementation
Translate technical work into tangible business goals using strong interpersonal and communication skills

One of the following education plus analytics experience (degree expected by the scheduled start date): Bachelor’s in a quantitative field plus 9 years of experience performing data analytics
One of the following education plus analytics experience (degree expected by the scheduled start date): Master’s in a quantitative field, or an MBA with quantitative concentration, plus 7 years of experience performing data analytics
One of the following education plus analytics experience (degree expected by the scheduled start date): PhD in a quantitative field plus 4 years of experience performing data analytics
At least 4 years leveraging open source programming languages for large scale data analysis
At least 4 years working with machine learning
At least 4 years utilizing relational databases

The Global Payment Network Data Solutions and Modeling team builds machine learning and AI agents to deliver foundational, scalable intelligence for smarter business decisions across the payments ecosystem
Creates models and AI tools to support fraud/risk, merchant acceptance, merchant intelligence, and monitoring

Extensive multi-project experience leading data science solutions in payments, financial services, or fintech
At least 1 year of experience working with AWS
At least 3 years of experience managing people
At least 5 years of experience in Python, Scala, or R for large scale data analysis
At least 5 years of experience with machine learning

Director, Data Scientist - Global Payment Network

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