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

Lead Information Security Engineer:

Who is Mastercard?

Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is 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 realise their greatest potential.

Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.

Mission First, People Always

As Corporate Security, we are responsible for keeping Mastercard safe and secure from cyber and physical threats, and it is our people on the frontlines who make this happen every day.

By taking care of our people, their well-being, and career development, we provide themwith the necessary tools and environment to ensure the success of our mission.

Overview:

The Business Security Enablement Guild is seeking a Lead Information Security Engineer to serve as a Program Security Engineer for the Integrated Marketing and Communications program. The ideal candidate is passionate about keeping a strong security posture while allowing the business to meet its business goals.

Role

The role requires a blend of cybersecurity experience and highly developed communication skills to be a security liaison and engineer for the program. In this role, you will:

• Lead complex initiatives and projects, collaborate with business partners, vendor/consulting organisations, and peer-level professionals from other IT disciplines.
• Security review of internally developed and 3rd party software including SaaS, as per Mastercard policies and standards, and suggest appropriate direction to the business.
• Influence and implement security requirements, standards, and architecture for the security aspects of large, complex projects.
• Raise opportunities for improvement to senior leadership.
• Responsible for reviewing and providing feedback for improvements to front-line metrics to ensure controls are being met as defined.
• Support the design, testing, and implementation of complex security solutions to meet security and business requirements.
• Cultivate and maintain working relationships with a variety of internal stakeholders, including business owners, end-users, customers, project managers, engineers, and senior leadership.

All About You:

The ideal candidate for this position should have:

• IT experience with demonstrated thought-leadership, cross-functional influence and partnership demonstrated by a successful track record of enabling business through these technical decisions.
• Experience leading project teams, collaborating with business partners, vendor/ consulting organizations and peer-level professionals from other IT disciplines.
• Information Security Engineering experience, including risk identification with options and compensating controls to remediate.
• Knowledge of information security, risk management, and data privacy within the domain of digital commerce, including relevant practical experience.
• Good understanding of identity management, user authentication and authorisation principles.
• Demonstrated experience designing secure multi-domain Internet-facing applications.
• Experience providing security architecture advice for web-based network environments and secure communication between environments, including web services, web applications, and mobile applications.
• Basic knowledge and experience in cryptography, including several of the following: encryption, hashing, key management, digital certificates, and TLS.
• Demonstrate the ability to articulate and communicate effectively to diverse audiences and properly translate security and risk management terminology into business terms, and recommend alternative solutions to these stakeholders.

NICE Framework References:

This Mastercard role shares Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities with related National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education work roles:

• Defensive Cybersecurity
• Incident Response
• Insider Threat Analysis
• Threat Analysis
• Vulnerability Analysis

Corporate Security Responsibility:

Every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security. All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and therefore, it is expected that the successful candidate for this position 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.

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.