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Director, Data Scientist - Global Payment Network

Riverwoods, IL, USFull-time$269k2026-10-02 → 2026-11-11
Based in United StatesVisa sponsorship offered

Core

Lead data science initiatives for the Global Payment Network, building ML/AI agents for fraud, risk, merchant acceptance, and intelligence across billions of customer records.

Role type

Director, Data Scientist (Payments/Fintech)

Builds

Machine learning models and AI tools for fraud/risk, merchant acceptance, and monitoring

Domain

Financial Services / Payments

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Machine learning, relational databases, open-source programming languages, large-scale data analysis, stakeholder management, team leadership

Preferred skills

AWS, Python/Scala/R, payments/fintech domain experience, people management

Technologies

Python, Conda, AWS, H2O, Spark

Responsibilities

Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver customer-centric products; build ML models through design, training, evaluation, and implementation; leverage broad tech stacks to analyze huge volumes of numeric and textual data; challenge conventional thinking to improve status quo; mentor and develop team talent.

Seniority

Director, strategic leadership with hands-on technical execution