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 II Role Overview Build and productionize enterprise-grade AI and Generative AI solutions for Mastercard. This role combines strong software engineering with model fine-tuning, Databricks-based ML engineering, AWS deployment, and end-to-end MLOps. Key Responsibilities Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable AI/ML applications, APIs, and reusable engineering components. Fine-tune and evaluate foundation models using techniques such as LoRA, QLoRA, PEFT, and supervised fine-tuning. Build RAG solutions, embeddings workflows, vector-search applications, and AI agents. Create end-to-end ML pipelines for data preparation, training, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and retraining. Use Databricks, PySpark, MLflow, Unity Catalog, Workflows, Vector Search, and Model Serving for governed model development and operations. Implement CI/CD, automated testing, observability, model monitoring, and production support practices. Partner with data science, engineering, product, security, privacy, and governance teams to deliver reliable and responsible AI solutions. Required Skills & Experience 3–4 years of experience in AI/ML engineering, software engineering, data science, or a related field. Strong Python, SQL, object-or