👋 Data Scientist II - Core Payments Product Data & Analytics - Onsite (Lisbon, Portugal)
About Mastercard
Mastercard connects and powers an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere. We make transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation, and delivers better business results.
About the Role
The Data and Analytics team builds internal analytic partnerships, strengthening the focus on the health of the business, portfolio and revenue optimization opportunities, initiative tracking, new product development, and Go-To Market strategies.
What You'll Do
- Work closely with global & regional teams to architect, develop, and maintain advanced reporting and data visualization capabilities on large volumes of data to support analytics and reporting needs across products, markets, and services.
- Translate business requirements into tangible solution specifications and high-quality, on-time deliverables.
- Create repeatable processes to support the development of modeling and reporting.
- Effectively use tools to manipulate large-scale databases, synthesizing data insights. Provide first-level insights/conclusions/assessments and present findings via Tableau/PowerBI dashboards, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Apply quality control, data validation, and cleansing processes to new and existing data sources.
What We're Looking For
- 3-5 years of experience in data management, data mining, data analytics, data reporting, data product development, and quantitative analysis.
- Financial Institution or Payments experience is a plus.
- Experience presenting data findings in a readable and insight-driven format. Experience building support decks.
- Advanced SQL coding is a must.
- Excellent problem-solving, quantitative, and analytical skills.
- In-depth technical knowledge, drive, and ability to learn new technologies.
- Strong attention to detail and quality.
- Team player, excellent communication skills.
- Must be able to interact with management, internal stakeholders, and collect requirements.
- Must be able to perform in a team, use judgment, and operate under ambiguity.
- Experience with data visualization tools such as Tableau, Domo, PowerBI is a plus.
- Experience with Hadoop environments, Hive, Python, R, WPS is a plus.
Nice to Have
- Experience leading the entire project and managing the timely execution of the plan, providing regular updates to key stakeholders.
Education
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, M.S./M.B.A. preferred.
Additional Competencies
- Excellent English, quantitative, technical, and communication (oral/written) skills.
- Analytical/Problem Solving
- Strong attention to detail and quality
- Creativity/Innovation
- Self-motivated, operates with a sense of urgency
- Project Management/Risk Mitigation
- Able to prioritize and perform multiple tasks simultaneously.
Corporate Security Responsibility
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks come with an inherent risk to the organization. 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.
Job Category: Data Analysis