Lead Data Engineer (O'Fallon)

Lead Software Engineer

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 Enterprise Data Solutions team is looking for a Big Data Engineer to drive our mission to unlock potential of data assets by consistently innovating, eliminating friction in how users access data from its Big Data repositories and enforce standards and principles in the Big Data space. The candidate will be part of an exciting, fast paced environment developing Data Engineering solutions in the data and analytics domain.

Role

• Develop high quality, secure and scalable data pipelines using spark, Scala / python on Hadoop or object storage.
• Leverage new technologies and approaches to innovate with increasingly large data sets.
• Drive automation and efficiency in Data ingestion, data movement and data access workflows by innovation and collaboration.
• Understand, implement and enforce Software development standards and engineering principles in the Big Data space.
• Work closely with business stakeholders and embedded engineering teams within business teams in a collaborative manner to help them build scalable products in quick time.
• Contribute ideas to help ensure that required standards and processes are in place and actively look for opportunities to enhance standards and improve process efficiency.
• Perform assigned tasks and production incident independently.

All About You

10+ years of experience in Data Warehouse related projects and implementing multiple end-to-end DW projects in Big Data environment. Experience of building data pipelines through Spark with Scala / Python / Java on Hadoop or Object storage. Experience of building Nifi pipelines. Experience of working with Databases like Oracle, Netezza would be added advantage. Strong analytical skills required for debugging production issues, providing root cause and implementing mitigation plan. Strong communication skills - both verbal and written and strong relationship, collaboration skills and organizational skills. Ability to multi-task across multiple projects, interface with external / internal resources and provide technical leadership to junior team members. Ability to be high-energy, detail-oriented, proactive and able to function under pressure in an independent environment along with a high degree of initiative and self-motivation to drive results. Ability to quickly learn and implement new technologies, and perform POC to explore best solution for the problem statement. Flexibility to work as a member of a matrix based diverse and geographically distributed project teams.

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 :

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 : $138,000 - $221,000 USD