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$172k
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Based on 240 similar postings.
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About Mastercard
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry, processing transactions between financial institutions and merchants using its extensive network of credit, debit, and prepaid card products. Industry: Payments Technology & Financial Services
Mastercard currently has
155 open roles
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Listed pay typically runs
$122,000–$207,000
across 136 roles with salary data.
The Lead Data Scientist joins the Data Science and Analytics team at Finicity, a Mastercard company. In this leadership role, you will mentor the data science team, manage the tech stack, and direct machine learning projects. Your daily responsibilities include designing, implementing, and monitoring production-grade models for financial applications such as transaction classification, temporal analysis, and risk modeling from structured and unstructured data. You will utilize techniques including SVM, Random Forest, XGBoost, LightGBM, CATBoost, LSTM, RNN, Transformers, and LLMs. Required skills include Python, Sklearn, Pandas, TensorFlow, SQL, and experience with Kubernetes, Containers, Docker, and REST APIs. You will solve complex problems in the Open Banking Initiative, focusing on intelligent decisioning, financial certainty, and attribute, feature, and entity resolution.
Artificial Intelligence
Data Science
ETL
Hadoop
Spark
Kafka
Hive
Redis
NoSQL
RDBMS
Flink
MapReduce
Data Modeling
Data Wrangling
Predictive Analytics
Big Data