Our Purpose

We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.

Title and Summary

Manager, R Developer & Analyst

Overview:
MasterCard Advisors is helping to shape the future of data insights by leveraging billions of anonymised, aggregated transactions in a 10 petabyte date warehouse to help financial institutions, merchants, media, and governments manage their businesses more effectively.
Advanced Analytics is charged with servicing clients by centralizing and optimizing the world class analytical, modelling, software coding, data sourcing, product development, product management, econometrics, and associated delivery capabilities of the MasterCard Advisors organization.

The Mastercard Economics Institute’s mission is to drive macroeconomic thought leadership in support of Mastercard’s efforts to build a more inclusive and sustainable digital economy.
• The Economics Institute was launched in 2020 to analyze macroeconomic trends through the lens of the consumer to deliver tailored and actionable insights on economic issues for key customers, partners and policymakers.
• In addition to global and regional macro-economic trends, the institute also produces thematic research covering consumer spending, risk, small business, policy, digital and travel.
• The institute constitutes a team of economists and data scientists that utilize & synthesize data sets both from within Mastercard and beyond to bring powerful insights to life
• The institute delivers tailored 1:1 presentations, participates in key industry forums, and contributes to global thought leadership via thematic papers, organizing events and participating in media


Role
We are looking for a full-stack R developer packaged with data analytics, with 5 to 7 years of experience in R development & data analytics, to join Mastercard’s Economics Institute; reporting to the team lead for quantitative economics. An individual who will:
• play a pivotal role in shaping the economics institute engineering discipline; contributing to the overall success and value of the teams products, reports, and outputs
• Proficiency with developing installable R functions, modules, and packages
• Ability to develop and desire to learn Javascript chart libraries (highcharts.js, D3.js, amcharts) and/or a front-end framework (React, Angular, Vue.js)
• Strong understanding of databases (SQL, Hadoop), & familiarity with deploying API's
• Foundational knowledge of functional programming and tidy principles
• Ability to build scalable shiny apps (1000’s of concurrent users)
• Attention to design, detail, and user experience
• Nice to have's: familiarity with low level languages, ci/cd pipelines, advanced R, and Quarto languages (R, Python, Julia, Observable.js)


All About you
• active contributor to github, gitlab, bitbucket, or a code-based blog (we want to see your code/contributions!)
• creative & passionate about data, coding, technology, and its applications, with an entrepreneurial mindset
• excitement for R, tidyverse, modeling, and tidy code principles
• fluent in more than one programming language and/or paradigm
• the ability to read code and ‘get it’
• strong collaborator and independent thinker
• excellent at managing multiple projects and tight timelines
• proven record of creativity, innovation, and unorthodox thinking
• comfortable working with engineers, product owners, data scientists, economists
• comfortable working in a fast paced and fluid environment, staying calm under pressure

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.