Lead AI Engineer (AI & Data Strategy)

We are seeking a highly motivated Lead AI Engineer to join our Security Solutions Data Science team. The successful candidate will lead collaboration with data scientists to understand the existing modeling pipeline and identify optimization opportunities. Responsibilities: Lead collaboration with data scientists to understand the existing modeling pipeline and identify optimization opportunities. Oversee the integration and management of data from various sources and storage systems, establishing processes and pipelines to produce cohesive datasets for analysis and modeling. Design and develop data pipelines to automate repetitive tasks within data science and data engineering. Partner with software engineering teams to deploy and validate production artifacts. Identify patterns and innovative solutions in existing spaces, consistently seeking opportunities to simplify, automate tasks, and build reusable components for multiple use cases and teams. Create data products that are well-modeled, thoroughly documented, and easy to understand and maintain. Mentor junior AI engineers. Requirements: Good knowledge of Linux / Bash environment. Experience in the following platforms: Python, Pyspark, Airflow, CI/CD, JIRA, Hadoop, SQL, Databricks. Familiar with agile & agentic engineering best practices. Good communication skills. Highly skilled problem solver. Exhibits a high degree of initiative. Nice to have: Graduate degree in CS, Data Science, Machine Learning, AI or a related STEM field. Data Engineering Experience. Experience with Java. Experience with Jenkins. Experience in with data engineering on petabyte scale data. Understands and implements methods to evaluate own work and others for error. Loves working with error-prone, messy, disparate, unstructured data. In line with Mastercard's total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in Canada, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive pay based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program. Pay Ranges: Vancouver, Canada: $127,000 - $203,000 CAD Job Data by YubHub .