Job Description

Job Description


Our Purpose
We work 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. We cultivate a culture of inclusion (https://www.mastercard.us/en-us/vision/who-we-are/diversity-inclusion.html) for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team - one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.
Job Title
Senior Software Engineer
Job Description Summary
Overview
Mastercard is a global technology company behind the world's fastest payments processing network. We are a vehicle for commerce, a connection to financial systems for the previously excluded, a technology innovation lab, and the home of Priceless. We ensure every employee has the opportunity to be a part of something bigger and to change lives. We believe as our company grows, so should you. We believe in connecting everyone to endless, priceless possibilities.
As a Sr. Data Engineer in Data Platform and Engineering Services, you will have the opportunity to build high performance data pipelines to load into Mastercard Data Warehouse. Our Data Warehouse provides analytical capabilities to a number of business users who help different customers provide answers to their business problems through data. You will play a vital role within a rapidly growing organization, while working closely with experienced and driven engineers to solve challenging problems.
Role
. Develop high quality, secure and scalable data pipelines using spark, Java/Scala on object storage and Hadoop
. Follow MasterCard Quality Assurance and Quality Control processes
. Leverage new technologies and approaches to innovating with increasingly large data sets
. Work with project team to meet scheduled due dates, while identifying emerging issues and recommending solutions for problems
. Perform assigned tasks and production incident independently
. 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
All About You
. 5 to 8 years of experience in Data Engineering and implementing multiple end-to-end DW projects in Big Data environment
. Experience working in Unix environment with shell scripting
. Strong Data Analysis skills.
. Experience of working on Nifi will be an added advantage
. Experience of building data pipelines through Spark with Java/Scala on Hadoop or Object storage is added advantage
. Experience of working with Databases like Oracle, Netezza and have strong SQL knowledge
. Experience of working with APIs will be an added advantage
. Experience of working in Agile teams
. 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:

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.

Everyone wants easier ways to pay
we invent them.
Checkout lines are slow
we speed them along.
Merchants want more sales
we give them data and insights.
People need financial access
we connect them.
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Commuters are busy
we speed them on their way.
Governments need greater efficiencies
we help create them.
Small businesses are virtual
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Retailers want to fight fraud
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