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The Director, Data Engineering for Cyber Analytics will be a key contributor in helping Mastercard develop and deliver actionable insights and products to mitigate cyber vulnerabilities across the Mastercard ecosystem.\nRole:\nDesign, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve data storage, pipelines, and ETL processes.\nLead the design and build of graph database solutions and data models that support cyber analytics use cases.\nPartner with data scientists to understand existing ML and AI applications, identify optimization opportunities, and craft processes and solutions that streamline data engineering integration.\nOversee the integration and management of data from various sources and storage systems to produce cohesive datasets for analysis and modeling.\nPartner with software engineering, IT, Info Sec, and infrastructure teams to deploy and validate production artifacts.\nLead, develop, and grow a team of highly skilled data engineers.\nAll About You:\nStrong data engineering skills, including building data pipelines and infrastructure for ML and AI applications, with a solid understanding of ML and AI concepts to build solutions together with data scientists.\nProficiency in graph databases and graph modeling techniques.\nProficiency in Databricks, Spark, and AWS, with working knowledge of on-prem distributions (Apache, Hadoop, Oracle).\nSkilled in databases and big data tools such as Hive, Impala, OOZIE, Airflow, and NIFI, with working knowledge of Shell scripting and Linux/Unix systems.\nStrong computer science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, and complexity analysis.\nProven ability to lead and develop a team of data engineers.\nSkilled at delegating, organizing, and motivating a team, and at prioritizing competing requests across multi-person projects.\nStrong stakeholder management, with the ability to build trusted relationships across technical and business partners.\nStrong problem-solving skills, with the ability to break down ambiguous problems, propose solutions, and implement them with cross-functional teams.\nClear, persuasive communication with both technical and non-technical audiences, in writing and verbally.\nCuriosity and adaptability, with the ability to learn new domains quickly and stay open to alternative ideas.\nPreferred Skills:\nA degree in a technical field such as Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or Computer Science, or equivalent skills gained through hands-on work.\nKnowledge of the payments, cyber, and/or fraud domains.\nKnowledge of web crawling and scraping.\n• Exposure to agentic AI.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  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.\nCorporate Security Responsibility\nAll 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:\nAbide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;\n\nEnsure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;\n\nReport any suspected information security violation or breach, and\n\nComplete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.\n\nIn line with Mastercard’s total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in Canada, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive pay based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program. 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