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Senior Data Scientist

Mastercard · Salt Lake City

Mastercard is hiring a principal Senior Data Scientist in Salt Lake City. What you'll do: prototyping and deployment / devops, work across the payments and security domains. Qualifications: a bachelor's degree and familiarity with Python. Part-time, on-site, paying $115K–$184K.

Hiring signals for Data Scientists

SOC 15-2051 — measured across all currently-active postings classified to this occupation.

50
/ 100
Cooling

Data Scientists Job Market Score

Driven by
  • Pay is above the national median ($185k vs $138k national)
  • Slow inflow of new postings (only 4% from the last 14 days)
  • Few reposted listings (30% appear duplicated)

Data Scientists job market

Aggregated from currently-active postings tracked in Data Scientists.

  • 959Active postings
  • 27Posted this week
  • 349Open 30+ days36% of active
  • 155Remote / hybrid16% of active
  • 17%List salary161 of 959
  • 0%Hourly0 of disclosed
  • $185kMedian annual (max)
  • Median hourly (max)
  • 18dMedian agep90 62d (long tail)

Wages by category

BucketJobsMedian annualMedian hourly
Data Science911$184k n=157
ML / AI Engineering12
VP8
Director7
Engineering1

Wages by employment type

BucketJobsMedian annualMedian hourly
Full-time33$196k n=17
Part-time22$142k n=22
Contract22$209k n=8
Intern13

Wages by sector

BucketJobsMedian annualMedian hourly
Technology589$187k n=131
Financial Services253$186k n=22
Manufacturing131
Media & Entertainment91$165k n=29
Retail89$184k n=42

Top categories

  • Data Science911
  • ML / AI Engineering12
  • VP8
  • Director7
  • Engineering1
  • Data Analyst1

In-demand skills

  • Python264
  • SQL187
  • Apache Spark89
  • AWS79
  • PyTorch77
  • TensorFlow75
  • scikit-learn59
  • Azure51

Top sectors

  • Technology589
  • Financial Services253
  • Manufacturing131
  • Media & Entertainment91
  • Retail89
  • Transportation & Logistics77

Employment mix

  • Unspecified869 · 91%
  • Full-time33 · 3%
  • Part-time22 · 2%
  • Contract22 · 2%
  • Intern13 · 1%

Top hiring companies

Category
Data Science
Salary
$115k–$184k · parttime · onsite
Source
mastercard.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
Original link
https://mastercard.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CorporateCareers/job/Salt-Lake-City-Utah-Holladay/Senior-Data-Scientist_R-273343-1
ATS
Workday
Posted
4 weeks ago (2026-04-11)
Status
active

Skills: Python

Topics: Payments, Security

Activities: Prototyping, Deployment / DevOps

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