Senior Data Engineer

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 Data Engineer

Overview
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.
About the Role
Are you an experienced data engineer with a passion for cloud data innovation and a strong sense of ownership and innovative spirit? The Data and Analytics team is an excellent opportunity for you to design & develop the next wave of data innovation at MasterCard. Our program is leading the efforts to bring our data and analytics expertise into the cloud.
We are looking for a Senior Cloud Data Engineer to work on the development of data pipelines, cloud curated data sets and cloud data objects in our MasterCard approved cloud data frameworks. You will also work closely with cross-functional teams, including data scientists, data analysts, and software engineers, to drive data-driven decision making throughout the organization.
Role 
Implement data engineering pipelines that extract data from various sources, perform transformation, aggregations and load data into centralized storage system in the cloud.
Work closely with senior data engineers and data architects using Agile methodology, take ownership of the delegated tasks and deliver the results in timely manner.
Support data scientists, data analysts in assessing, analyzing, and visualizing data, ensuring that data is accurate, reliable, and traceable.
Assist in troubleshooting and resolving issues with data pipelines, cloud data objects in Snowflake and integrations, ensuring they are running smoothly and efficiently.
Enabling Snowflake platform for business engineering teams.
Support the design and implementation of data models, object stores that serve BI reporting and curated data sharing and new analytics.
Stay up to date with emerging technologies and trends in the data engineering and cloud space and willingness to learn and use new tools and platforms that can improve efficiency.
All About You
Demonstrated ability to implement data pipelines in large-scale data systems and distributed computing framework.
Hands-on experience with Snowflake and SQL.
Knowledge of big data tools / technologies. (Hadoop, NIFI, Kafka, Impala, HIVE, OOZIE, Airflow etc.)
Knowledge of Snowflake cloud-based data warehousing and processing systems.
Knowledge of data modeling (SQL and NoSQL), data ETL and data warehousing concepts.
Good communication skills, with the ability to work in a team and collaborate with other data professionals and business stakeholders.
Strong attention to details and the ability to work under tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
Working experience of at least one programming language. (i.e. Java, Python, C#)
BS or higher degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or relevant fields.
Nice to have:
Cloud certifications and/or Azure/AWS Data Engineer certification
BI dashboard reporting experiences. 

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 based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. 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 new parent leave, up to 20 paid days bereavement leave), 10 annual paid sick days, 10 or more annual paid vacation days based on level, 5 personal days, 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, gender-inclusive benefits and many more.

Pay Ranges

O'Fallon, Missouri: $115,000 - $184,000 USD