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

We believe in power of data. We think creatively, design smart, simple to use, cost-effective solutions that empower our customer with actionable insights. The Global Business Services Center (GBSC) Analytics and Automation team is built upon strong contributors with leadership abilities, innovative mindsets and with strong business and technical acumen. The team acts as an idea incubator supporting various GBSC initiatives by providing in-depth analysis and strategic guidance. The team identifies ways to leverage data for answering business questions and driving operational efficiency. We innovate using new age technologies and data analysis techniques to discover actionable insights and communicate data in new and more effective ways for influencing business decisions, encouraging long-term customer engagement, improving processes and productivity, and overall evolving the way we do business.

Technology stack

• Our current primary tools for data analysis, data preparation and information delivery: Alteryx and Tableau
• Core database environments: Oracle, MS SQL Server

Role:

• Support multiple analytics projects and initiatives within GBSC and Mastercard.
• Identify, design and implement data and process automation solutions to support GBSC Operations and the global organization.
• Engage with various Mastercard teams to gather requirements for the projects and execute it End-to-End in individual ontributor capacity.
• Develop new queries and Alteryx flows for extracting, transforming and analysing data to address project requirements.
• Develop Tableau dashboards and reports that adhere to the visualization best practices and communicate a story.
• Participate in drafting documents and presentations for communicating innovations, ideas, or discoveries.
• Contribute to strengthening a motivated, innovative and productive team that creates next generation analytics for the shared services center and Mastercard.
• Generate and implement ideas to continuously improve analytics and reporting services delivery.
• Work closely with analytics community of practice and internal customers (GBSC Operations) to identify short-term and long-term objective alignment.

All About You:

• A minimum of a Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, Data Science, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Business Administration, or any other related field. An equivalent of this requirement in working experience is also acceptable for the position
• A candidate for this position must have had at least 6-7 years of working experience in a data analyst position, preferably in a fast-paced financial services environment.
• Experience in Alteryx Server administration and managing other infrastructure components.

High proficiency in Alteryx and Tableau

• High proficiency in data preparation/ETL

Proven experience in developing applications using Microsoft Power Apps.

Strong understanding of the Power Platform, including Power Automate and Power BI.

Experience with data integration and APIs.

• Strong knowledge of SQL; ability to write, execute and optimize performance of complex queries

Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.

Strong communication and collaboration skills.

• Ability to communicate complex quantitative analysis in a clear, precise, and actionable manner with both technical and non-technical customers;
• Intellectual curiosity and enthusiasm to apply data to discover and solve business challenges and questions;
• Problem solving mentality, resourcefulness and creativity in identifying solutions;
• Full stack experience in data collection, aggregation, analysis, visualization, productizing and maintenance of analytics products;
• Expertise with information delivery and knowledge of data visualization techniques for operational and executive dashboards;

• Knowledge of basic statistical analysis techniques and data mining methodologies.

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.