Lead Product Manager - Technical - Data Lake/ Data Warehouse

Our Purpose

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.

Title and Summary

Lead Product Manager - Technical - Data Lake/ Data Warehouse

Who is Mastercard?
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential.
Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.

Overview
The Data Collection and Engineering Program is looking for a Lead Product Manager Technical to drive data warehouse implementation in the UAE region and support other applications. The ideal candidate is passionate about the data, data warehouse, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possesses an entrepreneurial mindset.

Role
• Owns the working backwards document and vision for feature releases
• Develop system technical requirements with the aid of the technical team. Perform system reviews with users.
• Accountable for creating source-to-target mapping documents while working with upstream and downstream SMEs. Document the flow of data from source systems to target systems. Ensure development and test teams have all the required information to accurately capture and transformed from source systems data to target systems
• Participate in and drive user acceptance testing (UAT) to ensure that the product meets the needs of users.
• Frequently does audits to monitor key metrics, such as data quality, data completeness, and data accuracy, to track the product’s performance.
• Propose design changes and drive fixes with the development team as needed to improve its application performance.
• Act as a liaison between business users and development teams to address any grievances/issues after the deployment of the Data Applications.
• Use data analysis to understand user behaviour and make informed decisions about the product.


All About You:
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Ability to identify and solve problems using data analysis and other methods.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders, both technical and non-technical.
• Ability to work independently to complete tasks, as well as work collaboratively with others to achieve goals.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and tasks simultaneously, while meeting deadlines and ensuring quality.
• Knowledge of product management best practices.
• Knowledge of the principles and practices of product management.
• Experience with data analysis and data architecture, including the use of tools and techniques.
• Bachelor's degree in a related field, such as business, computer science, or engineering.
• 8+ years of experience in Information Systems (Database/DWH/Big Data development) and latest 5+ yrs of product management.
• 5+ years of experience in Design or Development on Data Warehouse ETL Projects or Big Data Projects.
• Expert SQL skills.
• Experience in the Banking and Payment domain is a plus.

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

• Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;

• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;

• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and

• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.