Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.

Title and Summary

Senior Software Engineer

Who is Mastercard?
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential.
Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.

Our Team:

The AI & DPE team is responsible for product management and innovative product development of products and services to address the evolving risk and security needs of all of Mastercard’s various customer segments. Platform Services team in AI & DPE focuses on defining the strategic direction for underlying platforms to enable the successful implementation of real-time, data-driven innovative products and services focused on network, security, fraud, digital identity and authentication. The team is responsible to look across all the products/services across AI & DPE and drive efficiency, re-usability and increase speed to market for our products and services.

The candidate for this position will focus on Data Unification across different data assets, enabling a single unified view of data from multiple sources and support the development of new innovative data driven cyber products, services and actionable insights.

The Role:
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer who will:

•\tPerform data ingestion, aggregation, processing to drive and enable relevant insights from available data sets.
•\tPartner with various teams (i.e., Product Manager, Data Science, Platform Strategy, Technology) on data needs/requirements in order to deliver data solutions that generate business value.
•\tManipulate and analyze complex, high-volume, high-dimensionality data from varying sources using a variety of tools and data analysis techniques.
•\tIdentify innovative ideas and deliver proof of concepts, prototypes to deliver against the existing and future needs and propose new products, services and enhancements.
•\tIntegrate & Unify new data assets which increase the value proposition for our customers and enhance our existing solutions and services.
•\tAnalyse large volumes of transaction and product data to generate insights and actionable recommendations to drive business growth
•\tCollect and synthesize feedback from clients, development, product and sales teams for new solutions or product enhancements.
•\tApply knowledge of metrics, measurements, and benchmarking to complex and demanding solutions.

All about You
•\tMinimum 5-8 years of relevant experience.
•\tGood understanding of programming language preferably PySpark and Big Data technologies.
•\tExperience with Enterprise Business Intelligence Platform/Data platform.
•\tStrong SQL and higher-level programming languages with solid knowledge of data mining, machine learning algorithms and tools
•\tExperience with data integration tools – ETL/ELT tools (i.e. Apache NiFi, Azure Data Factory, Databricks)
•\tExposure to collecting and/or working with data including standardizing, summarizing, offering initial observations and highlighting inconsistencies.
•\tStrong understanding of the application of analytical methods and data visualization to support business decisions.
•\tAbility to understand complex operational systems and analytics/business intelligence tools for the delivery of information products and analytical offerings to a large, global user base.
•\tAble to work in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment as part of a team and as an individual contributor
•\tAbility to easily move between business, analytical, and technical teams and articulate solution requirements for each group

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

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, and

Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.