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

Director, Data Strategy

Director, Data Source Analysis
• Lead a team of high performing analysts in the review of merchant and third party data utility.
• Define and train the team on testing methodologies to evaluate the quality and value of potential new data suppliers and data platforms. Supervise the applicable analytical and O&T teams running tests to guarantee quality results.
• Lead the definition of test planning and test case construction, including how to pre-condition the data to run the tests and automated processing of results.
• Define and implement data federation requirements to integrate new data sources into existing data sources. Investigate and implement new data federation technologies as directed.
• Automate the execution of tests to maximize reuse across initiatives and minimize manual efforts over time.
• Provide oversight and leadership of data dashboarding activities, including the definition and communication of roadmaps, and management of internal and external resources delivering that work.
• Serve as a corporate subject matter expert on merchant and third party data to support the organization’s product development efforts that leverage that data.
• Work with data platforms and O&T teams to define required changes to the technology platforms.
• Supervise and improve the operational processes associated with the construction and maintenance of these assets. Develop educational material and train, as needed, on these tools and processes. Disseminate and educate others on same.
• Provide operational leadership and a point of escalation for projects and issues associated with our various data collection programs.
• Ensure platform roadmaps for governed technical systems are aligned with product needs, prioritized and funded appropriately. Develop business cases for key projects that demonstrate the value in investments.

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.