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 – Transfer Solutions
Who is Mastercard?
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible.
Our mission is 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. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.
Team Overview:
Transfer Solutions is responsible for driving Mastercard’s expansion into new payment flows such as Disbursements & Remittances. The team is working on creating a market-leading money transfer proposition, Mastercard Move, to power the next generation of payments between people and businesses, whether money is moving domestically or across borders, by delivering the ability to pay and get paid with choice, transparency, and flexibility.
The Product & Engineering teams within Transfer Solutions are responsible for designing, developing, launching, and maintaining products and services designed to capture these flows from a wide range of Customer segments. By addressing Customer pain points for domestic and cross-border transfers, the goal is to scale Mastercard’s Disbursements & Remittances business, trebling volume over the next 4 years.
If you would like to be part of a global, cross-functional team delivering a highly visible, strategically important initiative in an agile way, this role will be attractive to you.
The Role:
We are looking for an experienced Data Engineer to design and develop advanced data migration pipelines from traditional OLTP databases (e.g., Oracle) to modern big data platforms such as Cloudera and Databricks. The ideal candidate will possess expertise in technologies such as Python, Java, Spark, and NiFi, along with a proven track record in managing data pipelines for tasks including initial snapshot loading, building Change Data Capture (CDC) pipelines, exception management, reconciliation, data security, and retention. This role also demands proficiency in data modeling, cataloging, taxonomy creation, and ensuring robust data provenance and lineage to support governance and compliance requirements.
Key Responsibilities:
Required Skills and Qualifications:
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: