# Manager, Data Scientist

**Company**: Mastercard
**Location**: Gurgaon, India
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Data Science
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

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.

As a Manager – Data Scientist in the Optimization Solutions team, you will partner with global, cross-functional teams to design, develop, and maintain advanced analytics and data science solutions that drive business impact.

Key responsibilities:

- Build, deploy, and scale machine learning models that deliver actionable insights for product optimization, growth, and sales enablement.

- Lead the end-to-end design and technical oversight of complex data science and ML solutions, ensuring scalability, performance, and engineering excellence.

- Drive the development, validation, monitoring, and continuous improvement of predictive models, statistical techniques, and algorithms aligned with business objectives.

- Establish and uphold best practices across statistical analysis, feature engineering, model evaluation, and performance monitoring.

- Translate advanced analytics, model results, and experimental findings into clear, data-driven insights for senior business and product stakeholders.

- Design and implement robust data pipelines, including ingestion, aggregation, and processing of large-scale, high-dimensional datasets.

- Research and evaluate emerging AI, machine learning, and data science technologies to identify innovative opportunities and potential risks.

Requirements:

- Strong academic background in Computer Science, Data Science, Technology, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field,or equivalent work experience.

- Experience in data management, mining, analytics, reporting, product development, and quantitative analysis.

- Proficiency in Python, Spark, Hadoop platforms (Hive, Impala, Airflow, NiFi), and SQL.

- Familiarity with machine learning frameworks, libraries, data structures, and software architecture.

- Strong analytical skills with a proven ability to translate data into compelling insights.

- Experience interacting with stakeholders to understand technical needs and deliver effective solutions.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Spark
- Hadoop
- SQL
- Machine Learning
- Data Science
- Statistics
- Mathematics
- Computer Science

### Nice to have
- Tableau
- Power BI

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