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

Lead Data Engineer

Overview
Mastercard powers the global economy by enabling secure, seamless, and intelligent payments across the world. Behind every transaction is a sophisticated technology ecosystem that processes billions of payment events with speed, resilience, and precision.
As a Lead Data Engineer within the Data Collection & Engineering (DC&E;) organisation, you will play a critical role in designing, building, and scaling Mastercard's next-generation data platforms and analytical ecosystems. You will develop high-performance,



cloud-enabled data pipelines that power Mastercard's enterprise data warehouse and lakehouse environments, enabling advanced analytics, business intelligence, regulatory reporting, and data-driven decision making across the organisation.
This role offers a unique chance to solve large-scale data engineering challenges, work with cutting-edge big data technologies, and contribute to a modern cloud transformation programme supporting global payment processing platforms.

Key Responsibilities
Data Engineering & Development
• Design, develop, test, and deploy high-quality, secure, scalable, and resilient data pipelines using Apache Spark, Java/Scala across Hadoop and cloud-native object storage platforms.
• Build and maintain batch and near real-time data processing frameworks capable of supporting petabyte-scale workloads.
• Develop reusable engineering components and frameworks that accelerate data product deliv

📌 Lead Data Engineer (Hyderabad)
🏢 Mastercard
📍 Hyderabad