About the job

Our Purpose

We work 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. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.

Title And Summary

Vice President, Engineering, Big Data, Cryptocurrency

Overview

CipherTrace, a Mastercard company, is a rapidly growing cryptocurrency intelligence and compliance

leader. Our team has introduced novel solutions to challenges including sanctions compliance for DeFi

and the Crypto Travel Rule. Our mission is to grow the blockchain economy by making crypto safe for

users and trusted by governments. CipherTrace operates on a global scale to assist banks,

cryptocurrency exchanges, law enforcement agencies, regulators, VASPs, and businesses in preventing

fraud, human trafficking, money laundering, and other illicit activity where cryptocurrency is involved.

The ideal candidate should be a passionate, self-motivated, team player with experience working in a

quickly evolving environment and willing to work and learn in a collaborative organization.

Role - Responsibilities

• Build the next-generation cryptocurrency tools and DeFi platforms.
• Plan and execute long-term strategies related to data strategy and deployment.
• Discuss data architecture and product decisions across the engineering teams.
• Develop core product KPIs.
• Contribute to roadmap strategy and product feature requirements across teams.
• Advise on analytical tooling and expertise in data mining, science, visualization, language processing
• Evaluate, select, and manage vendor relationships and performance.

Experience - Requirements

• 8+ years building enterprise applications and 5+ years in a technical leadership role.
• Collaborate with various functions, and drive engineering initiatives.
• Managed and developed a team of engineers with crypto-related data objectives.
• Defining and implementing data strategies and developing analytics organizations.
• Translating and directing data into insights to inform actions and strategy.
• Advanced communication skills with the ability to tell data-driven stories.
• Developing statistical models and proficient data warehousing architectures.
• Greenfield and Brownfield data engineering projects.
• Blockchain technologies, DeFi, law enforcement software, or cryptocurrencies.
• Remote teams and startup environments.
• Strong communication skills (both spoken and written).

In the US, Mastercard is an inclusive Equal Employment Opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

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.

Pay Ranges

Los Gatos, California: $187,000 - $290,000 USD

Remote - California: $156,000 - $242,000 USD