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Lead Data Engineer
Mastercard International Incorporated · 🌍 Pune, India
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About the role
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 Overview Mastercard powers the global economy by enabling secure, seamless, and intelligent payments across the world. Behind every transaction is a sophisticated technology ecosystem that processes billions of payment events with speed, resilience, and precision. As a Lead Data Engineer within the Data Collection & Engineering (DC&E) organisation, you will play a critical role in designing, building, and scaling Mastercard's next-generation data platforms and analytical ecosystems. You will develop high-performance, cloud-enabled data pipelines that power Mastercard's enterprise data warehouse and lakehouse environments, enabling advanced analytics, business intelligence, regulatory reporting, and data-driven decision making across the organisation. This role offers a unique opportunity to solve large-scale data engineering challenges, work with cutting-edge big data technologies, and contribute to a modern cloud transformation programme supporting global payment processing platforms. Role: Data Engineering & Development • Design, develop, test, and deploy high-quality, secure, scalable, and resilient data pipelines using Apache Spark, Java/Scala across Hadoop and cloud-native object storage platforms. • Build and maintain batch and near real-time data processing frameworks capable of supporting petabyte-scale workloads. • Develop reusable engineering components and frameworks that accelerate data product delivery while maintaining enterprise standards. Architecture & Platform Engineering • Design and implement a "build once, run anywhere" architecture supporting seamless deployment across on-premises and public cloud environments without code changes. • Implement data lineage, metadata management, data cataloguing, data quality controls, and observability capabilities across the data ecosystem. • Collaborate with architects and platform teams to establish scalable design patterns and engineering best practices. Cloud Modernisation • Contribute to migration initiatives moving legacy ETL and data warehouse workloads from on-premises environments to cloud-native architectures. • Leverage cloud services such as Amazon S3, EMR, Glue, and related data services to improve scalability, reliability, and operational efficiency. • Drive adoption of modern lakehouse and distributed compute architectures. Delivery & Technical Leadership • Lead end-to-end development activities including requirement analysis, solution design, coding, testing, deployment, and production support. • Mentor and guide junior engineers through code reviews, technical coaching, and engineering best practices. • Partner with product owners, analysts, architects, and business stakeholders to deliver high-quality solutions within committed timelines. Operational Excellence • Troubleshoot complex production incidents and perform root cause analysis to identify and implement long-term remediation strategies. • Ensure compliance with Mastercard's engineering, security, quality assurance, and operational governance standards. • Continuously identify opportunities to improve performance, automation, monitoring, and process efficiency. Innovation • Evaluate emerging data technologies and conduct proof-of-concept (POC) initiatives to de