Program Manager, Data Platform at Mastercard Foundation

Mastercard Foundation seeks a world where everyone has the opportunity to learn and prosper. Through its Young Africa Works strategy and Canadian EleV program, the Foundation works with partners to ensure that millions of young people, especially young women, access quality education, financial services, and dignified work. Mastercard Foundation was established in 2006 through the generosity of Mastercard when it became a public company. The Foundation is independent with its own Board of Directors and CEO.

Mastercard Foundation is seeking for a suitably qualified or experienced candidate to fill in the position of Program Manager, Data Platform

WAYS YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE

• Responsible for designing, building, and/or supporting the components of a data platform or warehouse, such as ETL processes, databases, reports, and reporting environments.
• Designs dimensional models with conformed dimensions, following the business’ processes.
• Creates processes for maintaining or/and capturing metadata.
• Identifies and documents all requirements for both hot and cold data.
• Establishes system documentation and ensures it is continually sustained.
• Source to target mapping.
• Monitor and maintain data for quality, completeness, and structure for optimal utilization.
• Maintain knowledge of what data the Foundation has and where / how it is stored.
• Maintain knowledge of relevant external data sources that are most heavily utilized by the Foundation.
• Ensure adherence to data dictionary, definitions, and governance protocols.
• Determine protocols and infrastructure necessary for data collection, validation, storage, structure, retrieval and utilization to help build out the function.

WHO YOU ARE

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or Computer Science or another relevant field is required.
• Strong comfort with, and experience in, retrieving, structuring, analyzing, and visualizing data across most well-establish data analytics platforms (e.g., PowerBI, Excel).
• Familiarity with complex data structures and tasks, procedures, processes to maintain the structured and unstructured data environments.
• Experience monitoring and maintaining data quality utilizing best practices.
• Experience with tools to manage and store unstructured, semi- and structured data.
• Experience with cloud-based data platform technologies.
• Proven ability to synthesize complex information and communicate key issues using presentation software (e.g., PowerPoint) and visual techniques into highly enjoyable and easy to consume formats.
• Understanding of the different application architectures.
• In-depth understanding of cloud-based technologies and applications.
• Detail-oriented with excellent analytical and creative problem-solving skills, including the ability to deal with situations where information is difficult to obtain, complex or ambiguous.
• Are results-driven and motivated by a sense of performance excellence and a sense of urgency; possess a proactive and ‘self-starter’ mentality.
• Flexible, adaptable, and able to execute a range of job duties and changing priorities.
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills with the ability to articulate information to a variety of constituents across cultures.
• Professional maturity, sensitivity to different cultures, and impeccable integrity that exemplifies the Foundation’s values.
• Ability to operate autonomously and with limited supervision.
• Flexible, adaptable, and able to execute a range of job duties and changing priorities.
• Possess excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills with the ability to articulate information to a variety of constituents across cultures.
• Possess professional maturity, sensitivity with different cultures, and impeccable integrity that exemplify the Foundation’s values.
• Demonstrate a commitment to Mastercard Foundation’s values and vision.

How To Apply | Program Manager, Data Platform at Mastercard Foundation

Deadline for Applications is June 26, 2022.