Vice President, Data Scientist

- Are you excited about Data Assets and the value they brings to an organization?
- Are you an evangelist for data driven decision making?
- Are you motivated to be a leader in the Global Analytics team that builds large scale Analytical Capabilities supporting end users across 6 continents?
- Do you want to be the go-to lead for data analytics in the company?

The ideal candidate has a knack for bringing data and analytics to the business to drive immediate and lasting business impact.

Role & Responsibilities:
- Develop and implement the analytics strategy to support business goals and drive company growth for 2 business units (Transfer Solutions and Real-Time Payments)
- Work closely with senior leadership of the global product team of the business units, finance, and operations teams to understand their analytical needs and deliver data-driven solutions.
- Lead development of reporting tools, including data collection, data transformation, and visualization.
- Contribute to strategic projects through a data lens with a consultative approach with internal stakeholders.
- Communicate results and business impacts of insight initiatives to stakeholders in leadership, technology, sales, marketing and product teams.
- Lead and mentor a team of data scientists, analysts, and data engineers based in India, Portugal and USA, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.
- Apply quality control, data engineering practices and other standardized processes in place within the team.
- Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies in analytics to ensure the company remains competitive and innovative.
- Be a leader in driving cross-team innovation, sharing and leveraging best practices.

All About You:
- Demonstrated experience in leading Analytics for large businesses, driving innovation to be more data-driven, including challenging the status-quo.
- Experience in working with executive business stakeholders, translating their business requirements into technical requirements, and subsequently leading the execution and presenting findings.
- Demonstrated experience in building and leading high-performing and globally distributed analytics teams.
- Proficiency in SQL, with the ability to write optimized queries for large data sets (Big data) to guide the team and occasional hands-on development
- Experience in data management, data mining, data analytics, data reporting, data product development and quantitative analysis
- Experience on Platforms/Environments: Cloudera Hadoop, Big data technology stack, SQL Server, Microsoft BI Stack
- Experience with data visualization tools such as Tableau & PowerBI
- Excellent problem solving, quantitative and analytical skills
- Strong attention to detail and quality
- Team player, excellent communication (oral/written) skills
- Financial Institution or a Payments experience a plus

Education:
Bachelor's or Master's Degree in a Computer/Data Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field.

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.