Lead Data Engineer, Mastercard
Global payments technology company
Open for applications
Global payments technology company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
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
- 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 storage, pipelines, ETL – 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
- Work history in data engineering, with a focus on building data pipelines and infrastructure for ML and AI applications
- Must understand ML and AI concepts, algorithms, and techniques well enough to work in tandem with data scientists in crafting cohesive solutions
- Familiarity with cloud (preference for AWS) and on-prem distributions
- Strong computer science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
- Extensive experience with Spark processing engine, relational databases, and big data tools (Hive, Impala, OOZIE, Airflow, NIFI, Kafka). Basic Shell scripting and knowledge of Linux/Unix systems
- As a plus, any background with web scraping techniques and/or graphical databases
- 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 Engineer, 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
- Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve data storage, pipelines, and ETL processes
- Take a leadership role in collaborating with data scientists to understand existing ML and AI applications and identify optimization opportunities
- Oversee the integration and management of data from various sources and storage systems, establishing processes and pipelines to produce cohesive datasets for analysis and modeling. opportunities
- Partner with software engineering teams to deploy and validate production artifacts
- The Lead Data Engineer, 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 advocate for your projects and solutions, but you keep an open mind to alternative proposals
- Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices
- Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed
- Report any suspected information security violation or breach
- Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines
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
Company benefits
- Gym membership
- Share purchase options
- Extra holiday purchase optional
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- Trust - integrity, respect, openness
- Agility - urgency and value through innovation
- Partnership - working as one team for the benefit of all
- Initiative - taking bold and thoughtful actions
Company HQ
Purchase, Harrison, NY
Articles
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.
People progressing
Joined as VP in 2008, promoted 4 times in 11 years to their current position of Executive Vice President.
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