Analyst, Data Strategy

Our Purpose

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. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.

Title and Summary

Analyst, Data StrategyThe Data Quality team within Data Quality & Sources team in the AI and Data Office is responsible for developing and driving Mastercard's data quality program. This team ensures that Mastercard governs the data and tooling that powers products and services across Mastercard. We innovate to increase the value of Mastercard's data assets, protect the integrity of the Mastercard network, and ensure we continue to adapt to changes in the ecosystem, enabling new forms of payment, new players in the ecosystem and expanding collection and use of data to support new lines of business.

The Enterprise Data Quality & Sources team is responsible for ensuring data is of the highest quality and is fit-for-purpose to support business and analytic uses. The team works to identify and prioritize opportunities for data quality improvement, develops strategic mitigation plans and coordinates remediation activities with technical teams and product team business owners. It also drives the creation of curated merchant data to improve the quality and availability of data for the organization.

Role

As a Senior Analyst, Data Quality you will:

• Manage and govern the data of regional and global prioritized data assets (by merchants, industries, markets, and other dimensions) to ensure the highest quality of Mastercard data possible for products and services, as directed by Data Quality team management.
• Manage and work the queue and approval of user-submitted data corrections. Provide training and data support to users interacting with data. Assist less-senior data quality resources with reviewing complex data quality issues and decisioning.
• Evaluate and investigate new data assets to provide new data types, coverage, and better data quality for end users.
• Support dashboards to monitor data quality
• Evaluate and make business cases for AI and other new technologies to assist in merchant data improvements, where applicable.
• Provide subject matter expertise on merchant data to support product team requirements and onboarding to enterprise assets.
• Assist in the design of future data quality platforms and processes collaborating with technical teams.
• Engage technical and business partners and leadership (internal and external) to remediate issues found
• Prioritize data quality resources to support business activities that align with the organization's strategic initiatives

All About You

• Experience with B2B and B2C data governance and stewardship processes preferred
• Knowledge of multiple AP region languages, geography and business structures preferred.
• Passion for research (automated and human-based) and eagerness to understand and form complex merchant business relationships
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with proven experience in relationship building and partnering
• Understanding of Mastercard platforms and applications and related business processes preferred
• High-level understanding of emerging technologies including but not limited to, cloud architecture, master data management tools (Reltio, Informatica, etc.), and AI.
• Strong analytic capabilities and experience using technologies such as SQL, Hadoop/Spark, and business intelligence tools (PowerBI/Tableau/etc.)
• Motivated self-starter with ability to excel at multi-tasking and solving problems in a fast-paced environment

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.