Lead Data Engineer: AI & Data Strategy

Mastercard; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 127,000 - 203,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard, Vancouver, Canada, seeks a Lead Data Engineer (AI & Data Strategy) to drive data engineering for AI/ML initiatives in fraud detection and risk. You will collaborate with data scientists, build scalable pipelines, and deploy production artifacts with software teams.

The role requires strong Linux, Python, Pyspark and Databricks expertise, plus experience in agile engineering, excellent communication, and mentoring capabilities. Compelling pay and Canadian location benefits apply.

Qualifications

• Good knowledge of Linux / Bash environment.
• Experience with Python, Pyspark, Airflow, CI/CD, JIRA, Hadoop, SQL, Databricks.
• Familiar with agile & agentic engineering best practices.
• Good communication skills.
• Highly skilled problem solver with initiative.
• Mentor junior data engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead collaboration with data scientists to understand the modeling pipeline and identify optimization opportunities.
• Oversee integration and management of data from various sources and storage systems.
• Design and develop data pipelines to automate repetitive data science tasks.
• Partner with software engineering teams to deploy and validate production artifacts.
• Create data products that are well-modeled, documented, and maintainable.
• Mentor junior data engineers.

Skills

Python

Pyspark

Airflow

CI/CD

JIRA

Hadoop

SQL

Databricks

Education

Graduate degree in CS, Data Science, Machine Learning, AI or related STEM field

Job description

Mastercard, Vancouver, Canada, seeks a Lead Data Engineer (AI & Data Strategy) to drive data engineering for AI/ML initiatives in fraud detection and risk. You will collaborate with data scientists, build scalable pipelines, and deploy production artifacts with software teams.

The role requires strong Linux, Python, Pyspark and Databricks expertise, plus experience in agile engineering, excellent communication, and mentoring capabilities. Compelling pay and Canadian location benefits apply.