Vice President of Data Science, Mastercard
Global payments technology company
Posted today
Global payments technology company
1001+ employees
Posted today
1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate will possess exceptional leadership skills, a deep understanding of the industry, and the ability to translate strategic objectives into actionable plans
- You’ve been involved in defining AI strategies and aligning those strategies to data, product and business strategies to support and enhance the overall success of those strategies
- Proven ability to develop and execute data science strategies that align with business goals and objectives
- Deep understanding of data science principles, algorithms, and techniques including supervised and unsupervised learning, deep learning, natural language processing and have extensive knowledge of the low-level details behind these algorithms
- Recent experience leading GenAI initiatives focused on leveraging the latest capabilities of ChatGPT, Gemini or similar
- Several years of prior experience as a senior level data scientist developing and deploying machine learning and deep learning solutions end-to-end (data exploration to deployment)
- Skilled in recruiting, mentoring, and managing high-performing teams
- Passionate about leveraging advanced analytics and machine learning to drive innovation
- Strong track record of partnering with senior leadership and cross-functional teams
- Exceptional ability to convey complex technical information to diverse audiences
- Focused on defining OKR’s, KPIs and metrics to measure the impact and effectiveness of product workflows and data science projects
- Ability to translate data insights into strategic business recommendations
- Ensures adherence to data governance policies and standards
- Ability to explain complex algorithms and results to variety of audiences
- Previously as a data scientist with experience in Python, R Programming, ML Frameworks (Scikit learn) and Deep Learning Frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch)
- Preferably in the AzureML suite of machine learning technologies or prior experience with either AWS or Google machine learning tools and technologies
- With the following technologies SQL, SAP HANA, Hadoop, Snowflake, Linux, Azure, Azure Machine Learning, Databricks, Apache Spark (PySpark/Scala)
- With analysts to build reporting and dashboards for business use cases
- With data analysis, statistical analysis and the ability to convey complex analysis to broad audiences
- In a cloud based big data environment and deploying machine learning models at scale
- With source control, production and non-production environments and automated build and deployment
- Ideally you have experience in banking, e-commerce, credit cards or payment processing and exposure to both SaaS and premises-based architectures
What the job involves
- The Vice President will provide strategic leadership and direction, overseeing key business functions to drive growth and innovation
- This role involves managing a team of data scientists and analysts in cross-functional teams, ensuring operational excellence, and fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement
- The Vice President will develop and implement strategic initiatives, align departmental goals with the organisation’s vision, and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders
- You will also lead a team of highly skilled data science analysts in data quality initiatives and tasks in a multi-product environment
- You will drive excellence in execution, automation and identify new and novel ways to enhance the overall data quality of our products and business process
- You will contribute to the overall data strategy for the organization and assist with the strategy to align our data and processes with the AI strategy and lead the incorporation of AI for revenue generation, process optimization and data quality
Our take
Mastercard is in the global payments business, and operates the world's fastest payments processing network. Its products and solutions have become central to everyday commerce across the world, in activities ranging from shopping and travelling to running businesses.
As the economy has become more and more digitised, Mastercard has been a leading player in helping businesses and individuals across the globe embrace card payments and digital banking. One of the world's largest companies, its revenue has seen consistent gain in the last 20 years.
The challenge for modern payments companies is that payments are always changing, as seen in the astronomical rise of contactless payments over the last decade. Mastercard's acquisition of blockchain systems, and an overall focus on leveraging its technology towards a digital economy, has placed the company in good stead to keep up to date with current trends, like cryptocurrency, in the digitised payments world.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Gym membership
- Share purchase options
- Extra holiday purchase optional
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Purchase, Harrison, NY
Leadership
Michael Miebach
(CEO, not founder)Has served in a variety of roles at the company, including President and CPO. Currently Board Member at IBM, Accion, the World Resources Institute, the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum, and the Metropolitan Opera. They are also a Trustee of USCIB.
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