Data Scientist II-R-253171

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

Data Scientist II

Job Title – Data Scientist II – Data & Analytics

Our Purpose

We work 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. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.

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

We are an Artificial Intelligence Centre of Excellence working on initiatives in Core and Commercial Payments. Our focus is to create value and improvements through digital intervention inspired by state of the art AI and Machine Learning. As part of the team, you will play a key role in building new AI / ML models, monitoring long term performance, innovate with research – all while creating significant business impact.

• Are you excited about coding and the solutions we can build with it?
• Do you love doing hands on work with opportunities to learn new tech?
• Do you believe that AI has huge potential to improve business processes?
• Are you recreational with Mathematics and Statistics?
  
  
  

If yes, then this role is for you!

The Role

The candidate, will be working on numerous AI and ML initiatives, spanning across different use cases and stages of delivery. You will expected to work and code hands-on, keeping up to date with latest best practices and advances in the field of AI.

You will be required to work closely in collaboration with multiple internal business groups across Mastercard. You are also responsible for creating design documents, including data models, data flow diagrams, and system architecture diagrams.

All About You

• Majors in Computer Science, Data Science, Analytics, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related engineering field or equivalent work experience
• 4+ Years of experience in using Python with knowledge of client server architecture
• 2+ Years of experience on building, deploying and maintaining ML models
• 1+ Years of experience in working on Gen AI projects including knowledge of modern frameworks like LangChain, LangGraph, OpenAI Chat Completion APIs
• Demonstrated success interacting with stakeholders to understand technical needs and ensuring analyses and solutions meet their needs effectively.
• Able to work in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment as part of a team and as an individual contributor.
• Ability to easily move between business, analytical, and technical teams and articulate solution requirements for each group.
• Experience with Enterprise Business Intelligence Platform/Data platform i.e. Tableau, PowerBI, Streamlit will be a plus.
• Experience with cloud-based (SaaS) solutions, ETL processes or API integrations will be a plus.
• Experience on Cloud Data Platforms Azure/AWS/Databricks will be a plus.
  
  
  

Additional Competencies

• Excellent English, quantitative, technical, and communication (oral/written) skills
• Analytical/Problem Solving
• Strong attention to detail and quality
• Creativity/Innovation
• Self-motivated, operates with a sense of urgency
• Project Management/Risk Mitigation
• Able to prioritize and perform multiple tasks simultaneously
  
  
  

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.
  
  
  

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