Marketing Data Platform Specialist
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Role Overview
We are seeking a Marketing Data Platform Specialist with strong data engineering, data management, and analytics capabilities to play a critical role in strengthening the data foundation for Visa Marketing 360, Visa’s global marketing automation and personalization platform. This role will partner closely with technology, product, Marketing Operations, Marketing Analytics, regional teams, and client-facing stakeholders to ensure that internal and client-provided data is properly onboarded, ingested, validated, governed, and activated for campaign execution, personalization, reporting, and measurement.
The Marketing Data Platform Specialist will support the design and optimization of scalable data pipelines, enabling Client Data Ingestion, validating data readiness, resolving data quality issues, and ensuring that data reviews and approvals are completed before use in campaigns or reporting.
The role will also help translate campaign and audience data into performance dashboards, measurement inputs, and actionable insights that support optimization and executive visibility across Visa Marketing 360.
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Qualifications
- Basic Qualifications:
- 8+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 11+ years of relevant work experience.
- Preferred Qualifications:
- 9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 or more years of experience with a PhD
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering, Mathematics, Data Science, Information Systems, or a related quantitative or technical field.
- 7+ years of experience in data engineering, data management, marketing data operations, business intelligence, analytics, or related data-focused roles.
- Master’s degree in Data Science, Big Data Engineering, Statistics, Information Systems, Business Analytics, or a related technical discipline.
- Proven experience designing and maintaining scalable data pipelines, integrations, and data models that support marketing activation, personalization, reporting, and measurement.
- Experience integrating internal, external, and client-provided datasets, including structured and semi-structured data sources.
- Hands-on experience preparing, cleansing, transforming, validating, and reconciling large, complex datasets for business use.
- Experience supporting data onboarding, ingestion, or integration processes, including requirements gathering, file validation, issue resolution, and stakeholder coordination.
- Strong understanding of data quality management, data governance, privacy principles, and approval processes.
- Experience with dashboarding and visualization tools such as Tableau, Power BI, or Looker to support campaign performance reporting, KPI monitoring, and stakeholder decision-making.
- Strong SQL and analytical skills, with experience working with large-scale data environments, cloud data platforms, data warehouses, or big data ecosystems.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration, project management, and communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical topics into clear business language.
- Experience working with marketing automation, personalization, customer engagement, CRM, CDP, or MarTech platforms.
- Experience supporting client data onboarding, marketing audience creation, segmentation, or campaign activation use cases.
- Knowledge of campaign measurement approaches, including KPI definition, control groups, A/B testing, audience performance analysis, incrementality, or attribution concepts.
- Practical understanding of AI/ML-enabled segmentation, predictive modeling, personalization, automation, or data quality monitoring in marketing or customer engagement environments.
- Experience partnering with Marketing Analytics teams to build campaign performance dashboards, reporting views, executive summaries, or optimization insights.
- Information for US Applicants
- Work Hours
- Varies upon the needs of the department.
- Travel Requirements
- This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.
- Mental/Physical Requirements
- This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.
- Visa is an EEO Employer
About Visa
Visa is a global payments technology company that connects consumers, businesses, banks, and governments in over 200 countries through its electronic payment network, VisaNet.
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