Associate Data Scientist - Cybersecurity

Visas Cybersecurity team provides enterprise-wide, risk-based cybersecurity policies, practices, and solutions to protect Visa s systems and data from internal and external threats. To protect Visa s assets in this dynamic threat landscape, they are deploying new cyber-security tools, collaborating across industries, and taking a proactive approach to monitoring the cyberspace beyond the Visa network.

As part of Cyber Threat Analytics and Research team (CTAR) , you will leverage cutting-edge technologies to perform statistical profiling, inference, classification, clustering and predictive analysis. As a key member of the technical team, you will create and implement sophisticated machine learning models to help derive new insights to defend against cyber-attacks. You will be working with a large variety of data sets, cutting-edge security technologies, and world-class operation teams to create awesome analytics for security and other business units.

Essential Functions:

Basic Qualifications:
Bachelors degree, OR 3+ years of relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications:
Associate: 2 or more years of work experience
Bachelors or Masters degree in data science, mathematics, statistics, economics, computer science, engineering, or other related business or quantitative discipline is required
Solid background and hands on experiences with building Machine learning, deep learning and AI models
Experience with Generative AI/LLM
Excellent understanding of algorithms and data structures and proficiency in Python and SQL
Experience working with large datasets using tools and Hadoop, Spark, or Hive
Excellent analytic and problem-solving capability combined with ambition to solve hard problems
Strong communications skills and ability to collaborate
Highly driven, resourceful and results oriented
Good team player and excellent interpersonal skills
Demonstrated ability to lead and navigate through ambiguity