Senior Data Scientist
- Location IN - Bengaluru, India
- Experience 5+ yrs
- Job type Full-time
- Posted 12 Oct 2026
- Qualification PhD / Master's (Engineering)
You will be taken to Visa’s own careers page to apply. Job ID REF087979W.
Job description
About Us Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.
At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world.
Join Visa and do work that matters – to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you.
Job Description
The Senior Data Scientist position requires an experienced professional who is passionate about data analysis, data modeling using machine learning and product development to help us build and maintain statistical & ML/AI based solutions in the AML & Sanctions Compliance space, specifically supporting the Sanctions Screening. Additionally, experience in techniques including fuzzy matching, NLP based n-grams methodology, phonetics, tokenization, and similarity scoring will be desirable.
The candidate is 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, etc. will be preferable. The candidate will be expected to have understanding of global sanctions regimes, including OFAC, EU, UN, and UK guidelines. They should demonstrate strong knowledge of Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Counter Financing of Terrorism (CFT) frameworks, as well as financial crime compliance practices. The candidate should be a motivated self-starter and quick learner willing to work in a high-pressure fast paced environment and globally located teams The candidate will be extensively involved in hands-on querying, analyzing, proposing and implementing optimization solutions, conduct user acceptance testing, and support business stakeholders’ enquiries on ad hoc basis. Successful candidate will be working in the Compliance Technology Operations (CTO) team which is part of the Global Ethics and Compliance organization Essential Functions:
