Data Scientist II

Every day, Global Payments makes it possible for millions of people to move money between buyers and sellers using our payments solutions for credit, debit, prepaid and merchant services. Our worldwide team helps over 3 million companies, more than 1,300 financial institutions and over 600 million cardholders grow with confidence and achieve amazing results. We are driven by our passion for success and we are proud to deliver best-in-class payment technology and software solutions. Join our dynamic team and make your mark on the payments technology landscape of tomorrow.

Summary of This Role

***This role requires being in our Georgia office 2 days per week***

Deploys data-driven exploratory analysis as well as predictive models to solve business problems across financial services industry, particularly in the area of Originations, Risk and Fraud, Digital engagement, Payments and Customer Management. Designs and analyzes experiments to test new product ideas and convert the results into actionable product recommendations. Leads Analytics Model development, validation and maintenance. Assists with data collection, cleaning, visualization, model building, training, testing, and presentations to build analytics capability and drive efficiencies in business areas across Global Payments.

Job Specific Duties & Responsibilities

• Performs exploratory data analysis across a wide range of datasets with higher levels of heterogeneity and size and/or with complex entity relationships

• Uses a combination of established design work and a synthesis of other experimental features to train and implement machine learning models in a production instance as well as coding scripts necessary for implementation

• Establishes domain expertise in a core issuing business and serves as a liaison to ensure model and features conform to expectations of that domain

• Interacts with internal and external clients on established projects to communicate progress and result’s – assists in crafting visualizations and story’s for new projects or to close out existing ones

• Explores and evaluates new services and applications for integrations into existing and new data science platforms across the issuing enterprise

• Performs QA and testing as necessary to support larger data science endeavours

What Are We Looking For in This Role?

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree - Quantitative Analytics, Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, or similar discipline

• Typically Minimum 0-2 Years Relevant Exp

• Demonstrated experience with sophisticated analytics tools and programming languages (e.g., SAS, SPSS, R, Python, SQL, HiveQL, Spark, Hadoop)

  Proficiency with visualization platforms such as Tableau, Qlikview, PowerBI, or JavaScript

Preferred Qualifications

• Prefer experience with Product Analytics

• Master's Degree - Quantitative Analytics, Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, or similar discipline

What Are Our Desired Skills and Capabilities?

• Skills / Knowledge - Developing professional expertise, applies company policies and procedures to resolve a variety of issues.

• Job Complexity - Works on problems of moderate scope where analysis of situations or data requires a review of a variety of factors. Exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action. Builds productive internal/external working relationships.

• Supervision - Normally receives general instructions on routine work, detailed instructions on new projects or assignments.

This job description may not be inclusive of all assigned duties, responsibilities, or aspects of the job described, and may be amended at any time at the discretion of the Global Payments/TSYS.

Global Payments Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.

Global Payments provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis protected by law. Those applicants requiring reasonable accommodation to the application and/or interview process should notify a representative of the Human Resources Department.

Benefits:

Global Payments offers a comprehensive benefits package to all of our team members, including medical, dental and vision care, EAP programs, paid time off, recognition programs, retirement and investment options, charitable gift matching programs, and worldwide days of service. To learn more, review our Benefits page at: https://jobs.globalpayments.com/en/why-global-payments/benefits/

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Global Payments Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Global Payments provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis protected by law. If you wish to request reasonable accommodations related to applying for employment or provide feedback about the accessibility of this website, please contact jobs@globalpay.com.