Senior Technology Risk Analyst

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 Senior Technology Risk Analyst

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 realize 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.

Overview The AI DPE Risk Management team is looking for a Senior Technology Risk Analyst to help strengthen and mature our global risk and control environment. In this role, you will be instrumental in shaping how our organization anticipates, manages, and mitigates technology risks across highly complex, rapidly evolving platforms.

AI & Decision Product Enablement Program (AI & DPE) is an internal product suite that enables intelligent decisions for market facing products. This program provides sophisticated, industry-leading intelligence with a range of capabilities that structure and apply complex business logic across the payment journey and beyond to inform and accelerate decisions at scale. This is achieved by leveraging supercomputing capabilities, sophisticated business rules, AI technologies, a streaming big data cluster, high speed in-memory data caching, APIs, & UIs to enrich data and provide real-time decisions.

Role

• Partner with engineering, product, and architecture teams to provide control, compliance, and regulatory guidance while identifying control gaps and driving remediation efforts to reduce risk.
• Support the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of preventive and detective controls within the first-line environment to strengthen the organization’s overall risk posture.
• Facilitate risk assessments, control gap analyses, and scope/impact reviews to ensure new features, product updates, and initiatives align with internal standards, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices.
• Collaborate with risk, compliance, and governance teams to track and maintain regulatory controls, while working with delivery teams to address issues and lower the severity of identified risks through effective remediation and compensating controls.
• Serve as a subject matter expert during internal and external audits, supporting evidence collection, documentation, and remediation planning while helping teams prepare for successful audit outcomes.
• Bring a proactive, curious mindset with a strong willingness to learn, enabling effective navigation of complex technical ecosystems and continuous improvement of control readiness.

All About You

• Hands-on experience with audit and regulatory frameworks such as PCI, SOX, SOC 2, GDPR, and ISO 27000/27001, including participation in both internal and external audits.
• Holds at least one relevant professional certification, such as CIA, CISA, CISM, CFE, or a similar credential.
• Ability to translate control and compliance requirements into clear, actionable guidance and documentation for engineering and product teams.
• Experience designing, implementing, and maturing controls while partnering with first-line teams to achieve compliance, ensure consistent control application, and address key risks and issues.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across Data Science, Engineering, Product, and regulatory stakeholders.
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and projects simultaneously, maintaining momentum and delivering results in a fast-paced environment.

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Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

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.

In line with Mastercard’s total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance); flexible spending account and health savings account; paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave); 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire; 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays; 401k with a best-in-class company match; deferred compensation for eligible roles; fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities; eligibility for tuition reimbursement; and many more. Mastercard benefits for interns generally include: 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time; jury duty leave; and on-site fitness facilities in some locations.

Pay Ranges O'Fallon, Missouri: $88,000 - $141,000 USD