Lead Data Engineer Contract, Global Payments Private Sector

• Don’t miss out on this great opportunity to work with a leading global Payments organization in Dublin! 

Role and Responsibilities:

• We are seeking a experienced , innovative, Data Engineer to lead a team of engineers fight against money laundering and fraud by powering advanced analytics and financial crime detection by building resilient, governed, high-quality data platforms!

What’s involved: 

• You will lead the design, build, optimisation, and support of scalable Spark / PySpark data pipelines on Databricks (Batch + Streaming).
• Leverage data ingestion frameworks (Apache NiFi, SFTP/FTPS, API)
• Implement orchestration using Airflow, Databricks Workflows
• Embed lineage & metadata
• Drive CI/CD for data assets
• versioning, semantic tagging, environment promotion).
• Mentor engineers on distributed data performance, partitioning, file layout (Delta Lake optimization), caching, and cost/perf trade‑offs.
• Review code
• Support incident response (root cause, postmortems, preventative engineering).
  Hybrid role; office attendance per Mastercard policy.

What you need:

• You must have 2-3 technical lead experience
• 8+ years of experience as a Data Engineer
• Excellent knowledge of Data pipelines, data bricks
• Expert knowledge of Spark and Python
• Strong experience working with AWS

What’s on offer:

• Permanent position
• Competitive salary and benefits