Lead Data Engineer

Job Title: Lead Data Engineer
Job Location: St. Louis MO - Hybrid 3 days/week)- Monday, Tuesday and Friday.
Job Type: Contract
Job Description: Team Focus: Supports critical data ingestion, streaming and model monitoring platforms that enable real-time decisioning and fraud risk capabilities across Mastercard. The team contributes to enhancements & modernization. The main team focus right now is model monitoring, second is modernization of applications/legacy systems and third, leveraging AI tools
Must haves - Scala, PySpark, Databricks and AWS
High level overview: Engineer with experience in Scala, Python or Java, Big Data+ AWS/Databricks. Needs AI agent knowledge to create agents within the team to automate the processes
Core skills: Data Engineering / Streaming Platforms (Kafka, real-time pipelines using scala/python, NIFI) Big Data Platforms (Spark, Hadoop/Ozone, Hive or impala, AWS, Databricks, cloudera manager platform) Production Support & Platform Reliability (using Splunk for monitoring, troubleshooting, performance tuning) Strong SQL AI agent knowledge

For applications and inquiries, contact: [email protected]