Lead Data Scientist, Mastercard
Global payments technology company
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Global payments technology company
1001+ employees
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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 Lead Data Scientist, Cyber Analytics will be a key player in helping Mastercard extract value from existing data sources to better detect, understand and prevent cyber vulnerabilities, data breaches, and subsequent fraud
- You are fundamentally a problem-solver. You like to get into a space and understand the issues. You’re comfortable proposing solutions and working within a cross-functional team to implement that solution. You’re creative, tenacious, and kind
- You have expertise in data – data manipulation, machine learning, visualizations, pipelines – and are always seeking to learn more. Plus you love sharing that expertise with others, helping the whole team improve
- You are simultaneously confident and humble, able to work independently but aware that you don’t know everything and comfortable asking for help when it’s needed. You can communicate effectively and persuasively to both technical and non-technical audiences. You advocate for your projects and solutions, but you keep an open mind to alternative proposals
- Proven experience analyzing large amounts of data to identify trends and gain insights from it. Familiarity with large-data platforms and languages (e.g., Hadoop, Oracle, Spark)
- Experience with various machine learning techniques and the tools that enable them (e.g., supervised and unsupervised models, reinforcement learning, SQL, Python)
- Knowledge of diverse computing environments, including Linux shell-scripting, Docker, AWS or GCP. DevOps skills is a plus
- History of creating data stories, leveraging visualizations and/or dashboards to turn data into insights and share those insights with non-technical audiences
- Knowledge of web scraping techniques and/or graphical networks is a plus.
- Subject matter expertise in payments, cyber, and/or fraud or proven ability to learn and master new subject matter areas
- Creativity and Innovation. Ability to think outside the box and constantly strive for more accurate and efficient ways to perform tasks
- Strong organizational skills and motivation, with a track record of working independently on expansive goals
- Strong communication and collaboration. Ability to clearly articulate results of analyses, in writing and verbally, and to work effectively with all levels within the organization
- Higher-education degree, where you can demonstrate background knowledge of data, coding, and/or cyber (e.g., Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Engineering, Cybersecurity, Computer Science) or work experience in which you acquired this background knowledge. Work experience required
What the job involves
- The Lead Data Scientist, Cyber Analytics will be a key contributor in helping Mastercard develop and deliver actionable insights and products to mitigate cyber vulnerabilities across the Mastercard ecosystem. Specifically the incumbent will:
- Develop machine learning models and data pipelines to identify the cyber risk surface for merchants, financial institutions, and relevant third parties
- Take a leadership role in coordinating across technical and product teams to ensure models are deployed optimally and customer needs are met
- Communicate insights to both data and non-technical audiences and leverage those insights to innovate data-based solutions to customer problems
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.
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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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