Director, Data Engineering in O'Fallon, MO

Description

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

Director, Data Engineering 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.

Overview

The SSO Data Science team is looking for a Direct of Data Engineering to be a senior practitioner and lead a team of data engineers responsible for building and maintaining robust, scalable data pipelines and platforms that support R&D, build and run activities for one of Mastercard's flagship AI fraud models.


Role

As a Director of Data Engineering, you will:

Be a senior practitioner and lead a team of data engineers delivering production quality data pipelines to support internal model teams.
Work closely with the business and data science owners to understand business and technical requirements
Work with multiple disparate sources of data, storage systems, and build processes and pipelines to provide cohesive datasets for analysis and modeling
Generate and maintain and optimize data pipelines for model building and model performance evaluation
Set the roadmap and identify methods and approaches that enhances efficiency of new and existing pipelines
Overall responsibility for development, testing, and evaluation of modern data engineering data assets that enable internal data science teams.
Oversee implementation of production pipelines that feed read-time models


All About You

Essential Skills for this position:

Extensive data engineering experience and significant leadership roles
Demonstrated full lifecycle pipeline development, deployment and evaluation for complex problems
Python, PySpark, Hadoop, Databricks
Good communication skills
Exhibits a high degree of initiative
At least an undergraduate degree in CS, or a STEM related field

Nice to have:

PhD/Master's in CS, Data Science, Machine Learning, AI or a related STEM field
Experience with data engineering in PySpark using Spark ML on petabyte scale data
Understands and implements methods to evaluate own work and others for inaccuracy and error
Loves working with error-prone, messy, disparate, semi-structured data


Corporate Security Responsibility

Every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security. All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and therefore, it is expected that the successful candidate for this position 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. Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

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.

In line with Mastercard's total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance); flexible spending account and health savings account; paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave); 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire; 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays; 401k with a best-in-class company match; deferred compensation for eligible roles; fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities; eligibility for tuition reimbursement; and many more. Mastercard benefits for interns generally include: 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time; jury duty leave; and on-site fitness facilities in some locations.

Pay Ranges

O'Fallon, Missouri: $170,000 - $281,000 USD

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