senior data scientist

Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200 countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, were 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

Senior Data Scientist

Overview

Responsible for developing data-driven innovative analytical solutions and identifying opportunities to support business and client needs in a quantitative manner and facilitate informed recommendations / decisions

Activities include developing and creating predictive models, behavioral segmentation frameworks, profitability analyses, ad hoc reporting, and data visualizations

Responsibilities

Independently manages and manipulates large data sets and applies various technical and statistical analytical techniques (e.g., OLS, multinomial logistic regression, LDA, clustering and segmentation) to draw insights from large data sets

Communicates with client counterparts to ensure customer needs are being addressed when designing data analyses and technical solutions

Reviews and applies complex analytical techniques or tools to draw meaningful and insightful observations and trends from large / complex data sets

Develops sophisticated multivariate models and analytic solutions (e.g., dashboards, prototypes), utilizing complex statistical and data science techniques and methods

Meets project deadlines for accountable deliverables and anticipates delays or foreseeable barriers to progress, escalating issues when necessary

Conducts due diligence quality assurance testing for prototypes and tools in beta and resolves reoccurring complex issues and bugs

Assists with data R&D work as delegated by senior level colleagues

Experiences

Demonstrated ability to combine, interrogate, and manipulate large data sets

Extensive experience leveraging open source tools, predictive analytics, machine learning, and other data techniques to perform complex analyses for project work

Consistently delivered accurate, technically advanced, and valid analyses with impactful insights and conclusions

Demonstrated success when deciding on technical methodologies for project work

Track record handling direct client communications professionally and effectively

Extensive experience collaborating across functions within Mastercard (Technology specific)

Served as an expert resource or go-to person for a specific consulting tool(s), system(s), and / or application(s)

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks come 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 Mastercards 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 Mastercards guidelines.

Locations - Pune, India