Lead Data Scientist

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
Lead Data Scientist
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 AI Services team is looking for a data scientist with a particular interest in operationalizing and scaling ML/AI applications who is eager to take on the responsibility of contributing to a wide variety of data science projects. The person in this role will be join a team of leading edge data scientists who are not just building models, but are working to solve foundational business problems for the Company.
Role
In this role you will responsible for:
• Designing, developing, and researching ML systems• Studying, transforming, and extending data science prototypes• Searching cleaning, aggregating large data sets from Cloudera, AWS, Azure, Splunk• Application development and maintenance on Linux environments• Performing statistical data analysis • Iteratively training and retraining Machine Learning systems and models• Extending existing ML frameworks and libraries• Data visualization and story telling with Tableau, Jupyter, RShiny and/or d3s• Graph analytics with Python, R or TigerGraph
About You• Programming with Python and/or R languages• Programming within ML Frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn, and/or Spark/ML• Model deployment with containers such as Kubernetes and/or Docker• Anomaly detection and model/data drift analysis affecting production ML models• Building and maintaining ML production pipelines • Solid verbal and written communication skills• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Engineering, or Mathematics or similar field• Experience with a Fortune 500 Company a plus
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 [email protected] 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.
Pay Ranges
New York City, New York: $166,000 - $265,000 USD