Manager, Data Engineering

About the role

Mastercard Services Technology is looking for a Manager, Data Engineering to lead a team that builds and maintains scalable data pipelines for client‑facing products, including the Test & Learn platform. This hybrid position in Arlington, VA, combines technical leadership with hands‑on delivery to enable data‑driven insights for global customers.

Key responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of 4–10 Data Engineers, fostering accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• Drive end‑to‑end delivery of high‑quality, scalable data solutions across multiple clients, industries, and concurrent projects.
• Own the design, development, automation, and maintenance of large‑scale enterprise ETL and data integration pipelines.
• Manage Agile team operations, including goal setting, sprint planning, capacity management, work allocation, and retrospectives.
• Provide coaching, performance management, and career development support to team members.
• Serve as a technical leader and subject‑matter expert in data architecture, engineering standards, and solution design.
• Partner with analytics teams, product managers, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable data solutions.
• Leverage SQL and modern database technologies to optimize performance and manage large‑scale datasets efficiently.
• Define and enforce engineering best practices such as version control, code reviews, testing frameworks, monitoring, and data‑quality controls.
• Identify and drive automation and process‑improvement initiatives that enhance efficiency, scalability, and reliability.
• Ensure compliance with Mastercard policies, security standards, and applicable regulatory requirements.

Required profile

• Proven experience leading data engineering teams.

Required skills

• SQL
• ETL
• Agile methodologies
• Version control
• Code reviews
• Testing frameworks
• Monitoring
• Data‑quality controls