Lead Data Engineer - AI & Foundation Models

Lead Data Engineer – AI & Foundation Models

Overview
Mastercard is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to design, build, and operate the data foundations that power a strategic AI program within the AI & Data organization. This role is responsible for ensuring that high‑quality, well‑governed, and scalable data is available to support foundation models, AI platforms, and downstream use cases.
As a technical lead, you will own end‑to‑end data engineering delivery across the program—partnering closely with AI engineers, software engineers, and product teams to ensure data pipelines, feature assets, and analytical datasets are production‑ready, reliable, and aligned with enterprise standards.

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.