Senior Data Engineer, 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
- Extensive hands-on experience in data engineering, with a strong emphasis on building and optimizing solutions using Databricks as a primary development environment
- Proven ability to implement multiple end-to-end data warehouse projects in Big Data ecosystems, delivering scalable, production-ready data solutions
- Proficiency in application development frameworks such as Python, Java, and Scala, with a preference for candidates who bring a software engineering background in backend development
- Experience designing and managing complex data workflows using orchestration tools like Apache NiFi, Apache Airflow, LakeHouse connect, Spark Python Data source API and similar platforms
- Expertise in performance tuning for database schemas, SQL queries, ETL processes, and associated scripts
- Demonstrated success working in Agile team environments and contributing to iterative development processes
- Hands-on experience in developing and deploying data-driven or machine learning applications at scale, including data ingestion, feature engineering, modeling, evaluation, and monitoring
- Skilled in developing integrated cloud applications, particularly with services such as Databricks, Azure, AWS, or GCP
- Experience with Unity Catalog and Delta tables
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to diagnose complex data challenges and deliver effective solutions
- Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities, with a collaborative mindset and experience working with cross-functional, geographically distributed teams
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field; equivalent practical experience will also be considered
What the job involves
- Mastercard’s Marketing Technology Solutions team is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, develop, and maintain data and analytics solutions that support Mastercard's B2B marketing initiatives
- This role is critical in building the data environment and integrations that will power advanced omnichannel marketing campaigns
- As part of a small, collaborative team, you will work with large-scale datasets to unlock the value of big data for the global marketing team
- The ideal candidate is a hands-on engineer with a strong background in data engineering, a passion for building scalable solutions, and a commitment to driving business impact
- Drive the evolution of data-driven marketing at Mastercard with a strong emphasis on data engineering and data science, ensuring advancements in data quality, scalability, and efficiency
- Develop and optimize methods and algorithms to generate precise, high-quality data at scale, including the creation and maintenance of feature stores, analytical stores, and curated datasets to enhance data integrity and usability
- Solve complex data challenges involving multi-layered datasets through the development of data pipelines, libraries, and frameworks
- Provide support for deployed data applications and analytical models, identifying data issues and guiding resolutions
- Ensure compliance with data governance policies by implementing or validating data lineage, quality checks, classification, and more
- Integrate diverse data sources—including real-time, streaming, batch, and API-based data—to enrich platform insights and drive data-informed decision-making
- Experiment with new tools to streamline the development, testing, deployment, and operation of data pipelines
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify high-priority challenges and develop innovative solutions
- Establish and enforce best practices for data engineering, including coding standards, code reviews, and documentation
- Ensure data security and privacy compliance by implementing appropriate protection measures for sensitive data
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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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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