Data Scientist

Mastercard

New York, United States Posted September 25, 2026

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On-site Full-time Mid level
Salary Range

$110,000 - $176,000

Job Description

Join our Cyber Analytics team as a Data Scientist, where you will drive advanced analytics initiatives, improve fraud detection capabilities, and support strategic decision-making in cybersecurity and payment fraud. You will build and maintain innovative data-driven analytical solutions, handle large datasets, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. A strong background in data science, experience in the payments or cybersecurity industry, and excellent communication skills are required.

  • Acquérir une connaissance approfondie de la sécurité des applications web, des vulnérabilités cybernétiques et des méthodes de fraude en ligne.
  • Construire, développer et maintenir des solutions analytiques innovantes basées sur les données, y compris des modèles prédictifs et des algorithmes d'apprentissage automatique.
  • Collaborer avec des équipes interfonctionnelles pour comprendre les produits, l'utilisation et les pipelines de données, et livrer des solutions évolutives.
  • Self-starter with passion for solving problems
  • Strong work experience in data science, ideally in the payments- or cybersecurity-related industry
  • High energy level; flexible, adaptive and strong collaborator
  • Experienced in building statistical and machine learning models in Python and working with large-scale distributed data processing frameworks, such as Apache Spark, Hadoop and Databricks
  • Previous experience with graph database and graph machine learning including graph neural network
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or similar fields
  • Passion for cybersecurity and profound interest in learning new tools, threat vectors, attack techniques, technologies, and best practices in preventing cybersecurity incidents
  • Well planned, organized & structured to manage time & work effectively
  • Experienced in data management and data mining with SQL, optimizing performance, building data pipelines, and quantitative analysis
Required Skills
data science decision making cybersecurity collaboration cross-functional collaboration communication machine learning Python Spark Hadoop Databricks statistics SQL
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