Lead Machine Learning Engineer- Data - job 5 of 20

The Data and Artificial Intelligence Platform group is a key component of Visa's Technology organization, providing the enabling technology and processes to handle Visa's data assets and deliver valuable information, products, and services to customers. Our team delivers secure, high-quality, and easy-to-use Visa core data assets, along with reliable and scalable data platforms.  Our platform operationalizes the delivery of AI and decision intelligence to ensure ongoing business value to Visa and our clients.

As a Lead Machine Learning Engineer- Data with expertise in Machine Learning and Data Engineering, you will drive innovation in developing purpose-fit data solutions using cutting-edge technologies. You will be responsible for executing a data strategy that leverages our data assets to drive innovation through data engineering and GenAI solutions, including developing a synthetic data engine. You will also guide and mentor junior engineers, ensuring security, scalability, performance, and reliability in all data solutions. As an individual contributor based in Foster City, California, USA you will be reporting to Sr. Director of Data as a Service (DaaS) team. This team is growing fast! Join us and be an integral part of the group that is at the leading edge of pioneering Data and AI.

What We Offer:

• Exciting Challenges: We work at a scale rarely seen in the industry, solving complex data and AI problems across the entire stack, offering limitless opportunities to leverage and lead in this ever-growing field.

• Teamwork and Fun: Each of us brings diverse and rich experiences to the team, enabling us to deliver much more than the sum of our parts and have fun at the same time.

• Fantastic People: With strong leadership, you will have the opportunity to learn, collaborate, and deliver together with some of the best and most creative minds in the industry.

About the Role:

• Lead the design and architecture of robust, scalable data engineering platforms and infrastructure, including data pipelines, data warehouses, and data lakes (on-prem and cloud-based).

• Oversee the entire data lifecycle, from data acquisition and ingestion to transformation, storage, and analysis.

• Develop a synthetic data engine to generate on-demand privacy enhanced synthetic data where actual production data cannot be used, ensuring scalability and compliance.

• Build and experiment with modeling and scoring algorithms, including custom algorithms and packaged tools based on machine learning, analytics, and statistical techniques.

• Champion the adoption of GenAI and Agentic AI technologies and develop strategies to integrate them into existing workflows or build new ones.

• Ensure data security, privacy, governance, and compliance with all relevant regulations, and develop and implement auditable policies and procedures.

• Lead and guide a high-performing data engineering and ML team, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous learning.

• Partner with business stakeholders to understand their needs and translate them into actionable data-driven solutions.

• Stay up-to-date on emerging data and AI trends and technologies.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.