Principal Data Engineer - Data Quality

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 Principal Data Engineer - Data Quality Overview: We are seeking a visionary and technically strong engineering leader to drive the evolution of our Enterprise Data Quality capabilities and platforms. The Principal Data Engineer, Data Quality will lead the design, development, and adoption of scalable data quality frameworks, services, and engineering practices that improve trust, reliability, observability, and governance of data across the organization. This role requires a strategic thinker with deep expertise in data engineering, data quality, metadata management, and platform architecture, capable of influencing enterprise-wide technology decisions and partnering closely with engineering, governance, analytics, AI, and business teams to deliver innovative and scalable solutions. The successful candidate will lead the development of reusable capabilities that enable consistent, automated, and measurable data quality controls across diverse data ecosystems, including batch, streaming, cloud, on-premises, and SaaS environments. The ideal candidate combines strong technical depth with business acumen, executive presence, and organizational leadership. They will be responsible for balancing immediate business needs with long-term platform strategy, promoting Data Quality as a Product and Data Quality as Code mindset, while leveraging automation, observability, and emerging AI technologies to improve data trust, operational efficiency, and enterprise-wide adoption. Role: • Define and drive the enterprise Data Quality strategy, roadmap, architecture, standards, and best practices. • Lead the design, development, and evolution of scalable data quality platforms, frameworks, and shared services supporting batch, streaming, cloud, on-premises, and SaaS environments. • Architect and govern metadata-driven, reusable, and configurable data quality capabilities, including rule management, observability, profiling, anomaly detection, and remediation workflows. • Establish enterprise processes for defining, versioning, deploying, and monitoring technical and business data quality rules. • Design and implement Data Quality observability solutions, including trust scores, quality metrics, SLAs, dashboards, alerts, and executive reporting. • Partner with Data Governance, Data Management, Security, Compliance, and business stakeholders to operationalize quality controls and stewardship processes.