Visa Internship for Data Science for students in South Africa

Apply for Visa Internship programme
Apply for Visa Internship programme

Visa is opening its doors for Data Science students who wish to join their organization. To apply, you must be a Data Scientist passionate about joining and taking advantage of Visa’s data to bring solutions to business problems.

Responsibilities of the Data Scientist Interns

  • You must be able to think out of the box and want to brainstorm new ways to use data.
  • Extract data and understand it to have an opinion on how to be of help to clients
  • Apply industrial data techniques to generate insights for customers and address business problems
  • Performing Data analysis on the complex and large datasets using tools like SQL, Python, Spark and many more

Requirements of the internship

  • Students studying for a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree with a graduation date in 2024 or 2025
  • Degree in quantitative fields like Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, econometrics
  • You must be available to pursue the Presidency internship from June to August 2023
  • You must have good presentation, communication and story-telling skills

Extra Skills and competencies for the Visa internship

  • Aggregating and Extracting data from big data engines using Spark. Hive or SQL
  • Analyze data sets using Python, SQL, SAS, Spark, R or development environments like Jupyter Notebooks
  • Communicating data-driven insights and passing on actionable recommendations.
  • Managing and organizing work in Office software like Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Teams
  • Generating and visualizing data-based insights and passing on recommendations
  • Data mining and modelling using the same data
  • Analytical and financial analysis skills
  • Collaboration skills with a diverse peer group are required.

Applications close on 19 December 2022

The positions open are in Johannesburg, Gauteng Province, South Africa

To apply for the internship, click here