Director, Data Analytics

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.

Director, Data Analytics

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.

Director, Data Analytics

The Global Business Solutions Center (GBSC) Operational Excellence & Enablement organization advances enterprise performance by combining data, technology, analytics, and operational expertise. The team partners across GBSC and its stakeholders to establish trusted data foundations, develop forward-looking insights, and create scalable reporting capabilities that improve decision-making, operational visibility, and business outcomes.

We are seeking a strategic and highly collaborative Director, Data Analytics to lead an integrated organization spanning Data Science, Data Architecture & Engineering, and Reporting & Insights. This leader will provide end-to-end accountability for the data and insights value chain, from architecture and data products through advanced analytics, reporting, and executive storytelling. The Director will translate business priorities into a cohesive data strategy, build durable capabilities, and ensure that solutions are trusted, scalable, governed, and connected to measurable business value.

This role is designed for an enterprise‑minded leader who can set direction, develop talent, simplify complexity, and move the organization from fragmented reporting toward proactive, predictive, and decision‑oriented insights.

• Lead, coach, and develop the leaders responsible for Data Science, Data Architecture & Engineering, and Reporting & Insights, establishing clear accountability, priorities, operating rhythms, and performance expectations across the organization.
• Define and execute a unified data and insights strategy aligned with GBSC Operational Excellence & Enablement priorities and the evolving needs of business stakeholders.
• Own the end-to-end portfolio of data, analytics, and reporting initiatives to support operational excellence, balancing foundational investments, strategic use cases, regulatory and control requirements, and near‑term business value.
• Partner with functional leaders to translate ambiguous business challenges into clear data products, analytical use cases, reporting solutions, and decision‑support capabilities.
• Guide the design of scalable data architecture, engineering pipelines, semantic models, and reusable data products that improve data quality, accessibility, interoperability, and speed to insight.
• Advance the organization from descriptive reporting toward diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive insights through responsible application of statistical methods, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and automation.
• Create and enforce standards for data quality, solution design, development, testing, documentation, deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle…