Data Scientist

Mastercard

3.6

(14)

Prague 1, Czechia

Why you should apply for a job to Mastercard:

  • 4.8/5 in supportive management
  • 71% say women are treated fairly and equally to men
  • 100% say the CEO supports gender diversity
  • Ratings are based on anonymous reviews by Fairygodboss members.

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    Position summary

    We have the technology, people and Brand to serve modern society. Today, we are a global tech company that connects everyone to endless possibilities, priceless possibilities.
    Economics & Location Program
    Economics & Location products leverage Mastercard data to deliver timely insights and forecasts on macro- and microeconomic trends around sales performance across sectors, geographies, and channels. These insights are the macro- and microeconomic indicators of industry performance based on actual, near real-time spend data.
    About the role
    The Mastercard Economics & Location products report timely insights and forecasts to internal and external stakeholders. The analytics modelling and prototyping team oversees all new prototyping and development of new reports, vertical and geographies as well as new production efforts. The group analyzes & synthesizes data sets both from within Mastercard and beyond to bring powerful insights to clients.

    This candidate will be part of a cross-functional team of data scientists, data engineers, econometricians, and platform designers and will help us scale our offerings and create prototypes for new ideas/offerings. You will also help locate and ingest relevant 3rd party data, develop new models and detailed forecasts, design outlier detection algorithms and work on many other complex and challenging problems.
    Qualifications:
    • Undergraduate or master's degree and at least 2-4 years of work experience after completing your degree(s)
    • Solid ability to write SQL
    • Experience with big data
    • Very comfortable programming in Python or R
    • Experience with time series data and models
    • A solid foundation in managing large datasets
    • Experience working with credit card data a big plus
    • Passion: Actively seeks responsibility and takes pride in delivering the highest quality results and recommendations to our clients.
    • Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively - both verbally and in writing - in English and the local office language(s)
    • Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
    • Candidates must be eligible to work in the country of which they are applying for a position in, as well as eligible to apply for travel visas as required by travel needs

    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.

    Why you should apply for a job to Mastercard:

  • 4.8/5 in supportive management
  • 71% say women are treated fairly and equally to men
  • 100% say the CEO supports gender diversity
  • Ratings are based on anonymous reviews by Fairygodboss members.