Analyst, Data Strategy

Job Title:

Analyst, Data Strategy

Overview:

The 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 environmentTo find US Salary Ranges, visit People Place. Under the Compensation tab, select "Salary Structures." Within the text of "Salary Structures," click on the link "salary structures 2025," through which you will be able to access the salary ranges for each Mastercard job family. For more information regarding US benefits, visit People Place and review the Benefits tab and the Time Off & Leave tab.

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