Senior AI Engineer, Data Strategy & Fraud Analytics

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

Job summary

Mastercard is hiring a Lead AI Engineer (AI & Data Strategy) to steer data pipelines, model evaluation, and cross-functional collaboration across data science and software teams in Canada. You will mentor junior AI engineers and drive scalable AI solutions in fraud detection and security contexts.

The role emphasizes production-grade AI/ML, data engineering, and collaboration with engineering teams to deploy artifacts and solutions at scale within Mastercard's trusted networks.

Qualifications

• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work with data science teams.
• Experience with building data pipelines and production-grade ML solutions.
• Familiarity with cross-functional collaboration and agile engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead collaboration with data scientists to understand modelling pipeline and optimization opportunities.
• Oversee data integration from diverse sources and pipelines to produce cohesive datasets for analysis and modelling.
• Design and develop data pipelines to automate repetitive data science tasks.
• Mentor junior AI engineers and lead cross-functional teams.

Skills

Linux/Bash

Python

Pyspark

Airflow

CI/CD

JIRA

Hadoop

SQL

Databricks

Agile practices

Communication

Problem solving

Initiative

Education

Graduate degree in CS, Data Science, ML, AI or related STEM

Tools

Java

Jenkins

Job description

Mastercard is hiring a Lead AI Engineer (AI & Data Strategy) to steer data pipelines, model evaluation, and cross-functional collaboration across data science and software teams in Canada. You will mentor junior AI engineers and drive scalable AI solutions in fraud detection and security contexts.

The role emphasizes production-grade AI/ML, data engineering, and collaboration with engineering teams to deploy artifacts and solutions at scale within Mastercard's trusted networks.