The Lead Data Engineer will design, build, and scale modern data platforms and pipelines, transforming finance data ecosystems into AI-enabled solutions, requiring collaboration across multiple teams.
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
Lead Data Engineer
We are seeking a highly skilled and hands-on Lead Data Engineer to drive our Finance Modernization initiative by designing, building, and scaling modern enterprise data platforms and pipelines. This role will play a critical part in transforming finance data ecosystems into scalable, cloud-ready, and AI-enabled platforms that support analytics, reporting, operational intelligence, and future-ready financial products.
The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in distributed data engineering technologies such as Apache Spark and Airflow, strong understanding of enterprise data product lifecycle management, and experience building reliable batch and streaming data pipelines in modern hybrid/cloud environments.
This role requires strong technical leadership, architectural thinking, and the ability to collaborate across finance, engineering, analytics, and platform teams to deliver scalable and governed data solutions.
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:
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
Lead Data Engineer
We are seeking a highly skilled and hands-on Lead Data Engineer to drive our Finance Modernization initiative by designing, building, and scaling modern enterprise data platforms and pipelines. This role will play a critical part in transforming finance data ecosystems into scalable, cloud-ready, and AI-enabled platforms that support analytics, reporting, operational intelligence, and future-ready financial products.
The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in distributed data engineering technologies such as Apache Spark and Airflow, strong understanding of enterprise data product lifecycle management, and experience building reliable batch and streaming data pipelines in modern hybrid/cloud environments.
This role requires strong technical leadership, architectural thinking, and the ability to collaborate across finance, engineering, analytics, and platform teams to deliver scalable and governed data solutions.
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.
Mastercard London, England Office
1 Angel Lane, London, United Kingdom, EC4R 3AB
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