# Director, Data Science

**Company**: Mastercard
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $154,000 - $247,000 CAD
**Category**: Data Science
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Mastercard's Security Solutions Data Science team is seeking a Director to lead a team focused on solving merchant risk during onboarding and monitoring. The successful candidate will drive the research and development of a merchant registry and profiling capability within the Identity Data Science portfolio.

Key responsibilities include:

- Defining and executing the strategy for solving merchant risk during onboarding and monitoring

- Leading, coaching, and developing high-performing teams of Data Scientists

- Building a strong team culture focused on collaboration, accountability, and continuous learning

- Guiding the design of scalable machine learning and analytical systems using modern data and cloud platforms

- Establishing best practices for problem framing, technique selection, experimentation, and validation across the team

- Partnering closely with Product, Engineering, and other stakeholders to translate strategic needs into data science roadmaps and deliverables

- Driving Agile delivery practices that support iterative development, measurable outcomes, and continuous improvement

The ideal candidate will have:

- An advanced degree (Master's or PhD preferred) in Data Science, ML, or a related field

- Extensive experience leading a Data Science team and driving innovation

- A proven track record of deploying high-performance machine learning models at scale in a production environment

- Strong proficiency with Python, SQL, and experience using scalable Machine Learning and Cloud frameworks

- Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and leadership skills

## Skills

### Required
- Data Science
- Machine Learning
- Python
- SQL
- Cloud frameworks

### Nice to have
- Experience building or scaling shared data science platforms
- Familiarity with merchant risk, fraud, or identity ecosystems

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