Job Description
The Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) platform is an opportunity to assist in the design and development of a world-class unified platform enabling global small and medium-sized enterprises. The SME team is looking for a Senior Data Scientist to own the development of machine learning models and business intelligence projects.
Key Responsibilities
Analyze various data sources to deliver data-driven and actionable insights for small and medium-sized enterprises in the Mastercard network. Develop sophisticated multivariate models and analytic solutions (dashboards, machine learning models), utilizing complex statistical and data science techniques and methods.
Requirements
Self-starter who can work independently with ambiguous requirements and proactively identify insights opportunities from the data. Communicate with cross-functional teams and business partners to help drive their ability to leverage insights from data.
Qualifications
Demonstrated ability to combine, interrogate, and manipulate large data sets using big data tools (Hadoop, Spark, etc.). Extensive experience using common programming languages (Python preferred) and different statistics and machine learning libraries (Pandas, scikit-learn, PySpark, etc.). Understand the trade-off between different machine learning model validation metrics (AUC, recall, etc.) to achieve the most optimal model performance based on the business needs.
Benefits
Experience deploying machine learning models to cloud-based production environments. Experience with Databricks. Experience with the innovative application of Generative AI in commercial settings. Background in the financial industry. Solid foundation in software engineering, with a focus on maintaining high code quality, effective version control, and rigorous testing practices, ensuring the development of robust and reliable software solutions.
Security Responsibility
All activities involving access to assets, information, and networks have 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 security policies and practices; Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed; Report any suspected information security violation or breach.