Data Scientist II

Job Description

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 Data Scientist II Overview Data and Analytics has pioneered a transaction based revenue methodology to inform and guide Mastercard’s Strategy, Product Design and Innovation within the Products & Innovation business. We build internal analytic partnerships, strengthening their focus on the health of the business, portfolio and revenue optimization opportunities, initiative tracking, new product development and Go-To Market strategies. • Are you excited about Data Assets and the value they brings to an organization? • Are you an evangelist for data driven decision making? • Are you motivated to be part of a Global Analytics team that builds large scale Analytical Capabilities supporting end users across 6 continents? • Do you want to be the go-to resource for data analytics in the company? Role • Work closely global and regional teams to architect, develop, and maintain advanced reporting and data visualization capabilities on large volumes of data in order to support team analytics and reporting needs across products, markets and services. • Translate business requirements into tangible solution specifications and high quality, on time deliverables • Create repeatable processes to support development of modeling and reporting • Effectively use tools to manipulate large-scale databases, synthesizing data insights. Provide 1st level insights/conclusions/assessments and present findings via Excel and PowerPoint. • Apply quality control, data validation, and cleansing processes to new and existing data sources All About You • Experience in data management, data mining, data analytics, data reporting, data product development and quantitative analysis • Financial Institution or a Payments experience a plus • Experience presenting data findings in a readable and insight driven format. Experience building support decks. • Advanced SQL coding • Experience on Platforms/Environments: SQL Server, Microsoft BI Stack • Experience on SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) and SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) will be an added advantage • Experience in building data models a plus • Experience with data visualization tools such as Tableau, Domo, PowerBI a plus • Experience with Hadoop environments, Python, R, WPS, a plus • Excellent problem solving, quantitative and analytical skills • In depth technical knowledge, drive and ability to learn new technologies • Strong attention to detail and quality • Team pla