Executive Vice President, Data Platforms Job Listing at Mastercard in New York, NY (Job ID R-242895)

Description

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

Executive Vice President, Data Platforms Who is Mastercard? --
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential.
Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.

Overview --
We are seeking an innovative and highly technical Executive to lead the strategy, design, implementation, and optimization of data engineering solutions for our SaaS products. This hands-on leadership role is crucial in shaping the data architecture, platforms, and pipelines that power our customer-facing applications, customer analytics and AI enabled products/services.
The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in cloud-native data platforms, SaaS product data strategies, and advanced engineering practices, coupled with strong leadership skills to drive the growth of a scalable, data-centric SaaS ecosystem.

Role --
• Responsible for the strategy and architecture development of all cloud capabilities for our current and future SaaS and AI products in Services
• Internally influence/collaborate with stakeholders across engineering, product management, marketing, and operations to align data strategies with business goals.
• Advocate for and implement modern data architecture principles, such as data lakes, data warehouses, and data meshes, to drive innovation and growth.
• Define and execute the company's data engineering strategy, tailored to meet the unique requirements of SaaS products, ensuring scalability, security, and reliability.

All About You --
• Deep executive experience in data engineering, with at least 7 years in leadership roles managing large-scale, SaaS-focused data platforms.

SaaS-Specific Expertise:
• Proven experience designing and managing data engineering solutions for SaaS products, focusing on multi-tenant architectures and customer analytics.
• Deep understanding of SaaS product lifecycle data, including usage tracking, subscription analytics, and customer segmentation.

Cloud Platforms Experience:
• Extensive hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform, including services like Redshift, BigQuery, or Azure Synapse.
• Strong knowledge of cloud-native storage solutions, real-time data streaming, and serverless compute platforms.

Data Engineering and Architecture Experience:
• Advanced skills in data modeling, schema design, and handling structured and unstructured data for SaaS applications.
• Expertise in tools like Apache Kafka, Apache Spark, and real-time processing frameworks.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, or Scala, and advanced SQL skills.

Additional Experience/Certifications:
• Certifications in AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud platforms (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Google Professional Data Engineer)
• Experience with data governance tools like Collibra, Alation, or similar platforms.
• Knowledge of data privacy and security standards specific to SaaS, such as SOC 2 compliance.

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. Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

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.

In line with Mastercard's total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance), flexible spending account and health savings account, paid leaves (including 16 weeks new parent leave, up to 20 paid days bereavement leave), 10 annual paid sick days, 10 or more annual paid vacation days based on level, 5 personal days, 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays, 401k with a best-in-class company match, deferred compensation for eligible roles, fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities, eligibility for tuition reimbursement, gender-inclusive benefits and many more.

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