# Senior Data Scientist

**Company**: Visa
**Location**: Bengaluru, IN
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Data Science
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking an experienced Senior Data Scientist to join our Compliance Technology Operations (CTO) team, which is part of the Global Ethics and Compliance organization. As a Senior Data Scientist, you will be responsible for building and maintaining statistical and ML/AI-based solutions in the AML & Sanctions Compliance space, specifically supporting the Sanctions Screening.

You will be expected to demonstrate expertise in sanctions screening and name-matching, along with experience working with rules-based or statistical models and familiarity with major sanctions platforms such as Fircosoft, Comply, Advantage, World-Check, and Actimize.

Key responsibilities:

- Conduct large-scale data analysis to inform business decisions

- Develop and enhance sanctions screening models using machine learning and fuzzy matching techniques

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support testing, validation, audits, and regulatory reviews

- Prepare technical documentation and communicate findings to stakeholders

Requirements:

- 5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree

- Strong analytical skills, with expertise in AI techniques, including machine learning, natural language processing, and deep learning

- Experience with Python libraries such as pandas, numpy, matplot, and Scikit

- Excellent knowledge of database management, data extraction, and data manipulation skills

Preferred qualifications:

- Experience in machine learning model development and implementation using tools like SAS, SQL, Python/R, Hive, and/or Spark

- Building predictive and descriptive statistical models using AI/ML algorithms

- Familiarity with techniques including fuzzy matching, NLP-based n-grams methodology, phonetics, tokenization, and similarity scoring

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## Skills

### Required
- machine learning
- natural language processing
- deep learning
- Python
- data analysis
- database management

### Nice to have
- SAS
- SQL
- Python/R
- Hive
- Spark
- fuzzy matching
- NLP-based n-grams methodology
- phonetics
- tokenization
- similarity scoring

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