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Title and Summary
Senior Field Data Scientist
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Overview
As a Senior Field Data Scientist within Mastercard Identity, a Services organization, you will have a diverse set of responsibilities supporting sales (pre-sales), customer success (post-sale), and product development, with the aim of supporting, growing, and developing a best-in-class product suite in the identity verification industry. The role is focused on making sure potential prospects & clients see the best possible value from Mastercard Identity's data ecosystem through machine learning or rule-based systems. As a product implementation expert, you will advise customers how to best leverage Identity's data in their fraud workflows through proof of value tests. In addition, Field Data Scientists advise internal product stakeholders on opportunities for new product development and go to market strategies.
Role
As a Senior Field Data Scientist you will:
Support the sales team to ensure Mastercard Identity can highlight the maximum benefit of its dataset through proof of value (POV) tests.
Support development of machine learning and rules-based models to help our client's maximize fraud detection and false positive reduction, increase payment acceptance, and optimize their risk decisioning
Understand customer business needs and workflows, using this knowledge to position Mastercard Identity products and design solutions using them.
Proactively nurture & maintain one-on-one relationships with customer data scientists, with the aim of providing deep insights for development of fraud models.
Acquire a deep knowledge of Mastercard Identity products and data, using this knowledge to act as subject matter expert for customers.
Analyze Mastercard Identity data features and provide recommendations to our Product team to ensure that our products continually provide the best performing signals for our customers
Work with customer IT and engineering resources to QA their integration of Identity API products and ensure the correct data is available for modeling.
Assist with internal training on Identity products, data, and processes.
Attend product spec reviews to bring customer facing perspectives and share feedback from the market.
All About You
Computer/Data Science or Engineering degree, or equivalent experience.
Experience in a customer-facing or heavily cross-functional role with data science centric project management experience.
Excellent scripting and analysis skills in python and SQL.
Excellent presentation and communication skills.
Experience in a machine learning or data analytics capacity
Ability to create and understand supervised machine learning models.
Experience in understanding customer needs and using those to build design docs or technical specifications.
Proven ability to establish credibility with technical leaders in customer organizations.
Corporate Security Responsibility
Every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security. All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and therefore, it is expected that the successful candidate for this position 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.
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.