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# Lead Data Engineer – AI & Foundation Models at Mastercard

Department: AI & Data

**Location**
: Ireland

**Level**
: lead/mgmt

**Posted**
: Aug 13, 2026

## Description

Mastercard is hiring a Lead Data Engineer – AI & Foundation Models to design, build, and operate scalable data pipelines and data products supporting AI model training, inference, experimentation, and evaluation. The role owns data ingestion, transformation, aggregation, quality, governance, monitoring, and performance optimization across batch and streaming workloads, collaborates with AI, software, platform, and infrastructure teams, leads technical reviews, and mentors senior and mid-level data engineers.

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