Data Scientist, Mastercard
$110-176k
Global payments technology company
Open for applications
Global payments technology company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$110-176k
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
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or similar fields
- Strong work experience in data science, ideally in the payments- or cybersecurity-related industry
- Experienced in building statistical and machine learning models in Python and working with large-scale distributed data processing frameworks, such as Apache Spark, Hadoop and Databricks
- Experienced in data management and data mining with SQL, optimizing performance, building data pipelines, and quantitative analysis
- Self-starter with passion for solving problems
- High energy level; flexible, adaptive and strong collaborator
- Well planned, organized & structured to manage time & work effectively
- Excellent communication skills
- Passion for cybersecurity and profound interest in learning new tools, threat vectors, attack techniques, technologies, and best practices in preventing cybersecurity incidents
- Previous experience with graph database and graph machine learning including graph neural network
What the job involves
- We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Data Scientist to join our Cyber Analytics team within the Security Solutions Data Science organization. This role is critical to driving advanced analytics initiatives, improving fraud detection capabilities, and supporting strategic decision-making across cybersecurity and payment fraud domains
- Gain subject matter knowledge on web application security, commonly exploited cyber vulnerabilities, and methods of online and payment card fraud including the common points of purchase for compromised cards
- Build, develop, and maintain innovative data-driven analytical solutions, including predictive models and machine learning algorithms, on large volumes of data to support analytics and reporting needs across products, markets, and services
- Competently handle large datasets, sifting for patterns and trends and translating those insights into technical rules and solutions
- Combine cybersecurity and transaction data into new and insightful views of fraud and vulnerability across the Mastercard network
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product, engineering, and operations to understand product, usage, and data pipelines as well as delivering scalable solutions
- Translate clients and stakeholder needs into technical analyses and/or solutions. Communicate results and business impacts of analytical insight to senior leadership and stakeholders
- Design metrics to track product usage, model performance and other outcomes of interest, with the aim of increasing engagement and improving the security landscape
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 digitized, 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 digitized payments world.
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Insights
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Purchase, Harrison, NY
Leadership
Michael Miebach
(CEO)Michael has served in a variety of roles at the company, including President and CPO. They are currently a 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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