MasterCard

Senior Data Engineer

MasterCard$115K — $184K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of hands-on experience with Hive, Spark/PySpark, and Apache Kafka.
  • Proficient in programming languages like Python, Java, Scala, or SQL.
  • Experience building scalable data platforms and distributed data processing solutions.
  • Deep understanding of data modeling and ETL/ELT design patterns.
  • Familiar with data governance, security, and regulatory compliance.
  • Implement CI/CD, DevOps automation, and infrastructure-as-code techniques.
  • Strong skills in diagnosing and resolving complex challenges in distributed environments.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, deploy, and maintain scalable data pipelines for analytics workloads.
  • Develop frameworks for data ingestion, transformation, orchestrating, and delivery.
  • Construct enterprise data warehouses and lakes for large-scale data processing.
  • Lead platform initiatives to enhance scalability, reliability, and operational efficiency.
  • Implement data quality and monitoring frameworks across ecosystems.
  • Collaborate with teams to translate requirements into measurable outcomes.
  • Mentor other engineers and promote knowledge sharing and innovation.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on advanced analytics and AI/ML initiatives.
  • Collaborative environment with cross-departmental partnerships.
  • Exposure to modern cloud-native architectures and technologies.
  • Potential for career growth through mentoring and leadership development.
Full Job Description
Title and Summary

Senior Data Engineer

Overview:

The Integrated Marketing Platform (IMP) team delivers the platforms, data products, and technology capabilities that power marketing measurement, customer insights, campaign optimization, and data-driven decision making across Mastercard.

We are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable data platforms, pipelines, and services supporting Integrated Marketing Platform products and analytics. This role partners closely with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Analytics, and Business stakeholders to deliver secure, reliable, high-quality data solutions that enable campaign measurement, reporting, customer insights, AI/ML, and marketing optimization.

The ideal candidate brings strong ownership, accountability, and a proactive problem-solving mindset ; someone who takes initiative and drives issues to resolution independently rather than waiting for direction.

Role:
• Design, build, deploy, and maintain scalable batch, streaming, and real-time data pipelines supporting business-critical products and analytics workloads.
• Develop reusable frameworks and services for data ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and delivery across multiple platforms and environments.
• Build and support enterprise data warehouse, data lake, and lakehouse solutions for large-scale processing and analytics.
• Lead initiatives focused on platform scalability, performance, reliability, resiliency, and operational efficiency.
• Implement and enhance data quality, observability, governance, security, lineage, and monitoring across data ecosystems.
• Partner with product, engineering, analytics, and business teams to translate requirements into measurable business outcomes.
• Support modernization and cloud migration initiatives, evolving legacy platforms to modern cloud-native architectures.
• Enable advanced analytics, reporting, AI/ML, experimentation, and customer insights through trusted data foundations.
• Adhere to engineering best practices, CI/CD automation, infrastructure-as-code, and operational excellence.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues and independently lead root-cause analysis to improve platform stability and reliability.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership, promoting innovation and knowledge sharing.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and technology roadmaps shaping the future of MST's data platforms.

All About You:
• Strong hands-on experience with Hive, Spark/PySpark, Apache Kafka.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Python, Java, Scala, or SQL.
• Experience building scalable data platforms and distributed data processing solutions.
• Experience developing data pipelines supporting analytics, reporting, machine learning, and operational data products.
• Deep understanding of data modeling, ETL/ELT design patterns, data architecture, and data lifecycle management.
• Knowledge of data governance, security, privacy, lineage, metadata management, and regulatory compliance.
• Experience implementing CI/CD, DevOps automation, infrastructure-as-code, and observability frameworks.
• Strong problem-solving skills for diagnosing and resolving complex challenges in distributed environments.
• Demonstrated ownership, accountability, initiative, and independent execution - a builder who drives problems to resolution.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills across engineering, product, analytics, and business.

Preferred:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline; advanced degree a plus.
• AWS data engineering experience.
• Azure Data Engineering / DataOps exposure.
• Marketing analytics or marketing technology domain knowledge.
• Experience supporting large-scale modernization or cloud migration initiatives.
• Experience with data warehousing and cloud data engineering concepts and solutions.

Pay Ranges
Atlanta, Georgia: $115,000 - $184,000 USD

About MasterCard

Transactis transforms traditional paper billing and payment processing by enabling businesses of all sizes to replace paper bills, statements, invoices, payments and documents with more efficient digital alternatives. Transactis goes to market exclusively with resellers—financial institutions, technology companies, printers and business process outsourcers—to provide their customers with secure, configurable, white-label, industry-leading SaaS solutions. More than a technology provider to resellers, Transactis is a full-service business partner, delivering a broad and deep suite of sales, marketing, technical and operational support, empowering resellers to more successfully serve their clients. Transactis meets the strictest regulatory and compliance requirements including HIPAA, SSAE 16, PCI Level 1, and SOC 2. Transactis’ investors include ff Venture Capital, MacAndrews & Forbes, Metamorphic Ventures, Safeguard Scientifics, StarVest Partners, Capital One, Fifth Third Bank, PNC, TD Bank and Wells Fargo.

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Joining MasterCard offers more than just a job opportunity; it's a gateway to a career infused with innovation, leadership, and growth. As a global leader in payment solutions, MasterCard is at the forefront of the digital economy, driving transformation in the fintech sector.

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Size
24,000 employees
Market Cap
$330.8 billion
Industry
Net Income
$6.4 billion
Founded
1966
5 Year Trend
+11.9%
Revenue
$15.3 billion
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