Data Scientist Intern, Summer 2025 - Dubai (UAE Nationals Preferred)

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

Data Scientist Intern, Summer 2025 - Dubai (UAE Nationals Preferred)

Data Scientist Intern, Summer 2025 - Dubai, UAE

Internship Program
The Mastercard Internship Program offers penultimate year students an immersive experience to challenge the status quo, gain real work-life skills in a global company, drive decency and belonging, and grow their personal and professional development. We invite you to bring your passion, share your talent, and make the most of this truly priceless experience.

Role Description

- Conduct analyses on the effectiveness of product offerings by examining the real-world impacts of customer use. For instance, do banks that assess cyber risk before partnering with a merchant suffer less downstream fraud? How much money can a merchant save, in data breaches avoided, by subscribing to Mastercard's cyber monitoring product?

- Gain subject matter knowledge on cybersecurity best practices and common types of fraud. Advise technical teams in accordance with subject matter knowledge and participate in educational initiatives. Competently handle large datasets, sifting for patterns and trends and translate those insights into technical solutions and education materials.

- Work closely with marketing and product to translate analysis into promotional materials.

- Partner with other teams (Safety Net, Smart Authentication, Data Strategy) to combine multiple sources of data in new and insightful ways.

What you'll need
-To be available to work Full-time between 26th May/2nd June 2025 to 9th August or late June to late August 2025
-To be a Penultimate Masters/Undergraduate Student, due to graduate no earlier than 2026
-Ideally enrolled in a bachelor's/Master's degree program in Computer science or related field
- Ideally focused in a field of data such as mathematics, statistics, or economics
- Insightful problem-solver, able to gather input from multiple divergent sources, narrow in on any problems or gaps, and propose effective solutions.
-Conversant with data: comfortable working with data sets of varying sizes, able to generate descriptive statistics and find simple patterns. Bonus: knowledge of and experience with machine learning models.
Innovative thinking and thoughtful risk-taking.
- Familiar with at least one of the following tools: Tableau, SQL, Python, AWS, Hadoop.
- Excellent communication skills, especially for group work and presentations to differing audiences.

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.