Senior Technology Risk Analyst: Program Manager, Risk & Controls

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: Program Manager, Risk & Controls
Senior Technology Risk Analyst: Program Manager
Overview
The ONE ("The Operations, Network, and Employee Digital Experience teams focus on the underpinning platforms that power our Network and the employees that serve it") Technology Operations Controls team is a group focused upon establishing both foundational and transformational risk management practice at Mastercard Technology. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, executing efforts in support of Technology partners with identifying control gaps, designing key control activities, monitoring such activities (via assessment and testing), and driving risk remediation with TeamONE platform teams.
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of solving complex problems and working with great Mastercard technology leaders in operations and platforms. In this role you'll combine your technical, risk, and control expertise with your keen eye for detail to assess, create, implement, and test robust control activities that fortify TeamONE against threats and potential issues.
The Risk & Control Practice plays a critical role in ensuring Mastercard's technology platforms operate in a secure, resilient, and compliant manner while enabling business velocity. This role partners closely with TeamONE and various functions across Technology including Security, Risk, Audit, and Business stakeholders to drive disciplined execution of risk, control, and regulatory initiatives across complex, global environments.
If you're ready to be at the forefront of technological risk management, we invite you to bring your technology controls experience to our innovative and collaborative environment.
Role
The Senior Technology Risk Analyst: Program Manager (TPM) is a senior individual contributor who owns the end to end delivery of technology programs focused on risk management, control design and execution, regulatory commitments, and operational resilience. The TPM operates at the intersection of engineering execution, risk frameworks, and executive stakeholder management, ensuring outcomes are delivered predictably, transparently, and at scale.
You will own the planning, execution, and support the delivery of complex, cross functional technology programs within the TeamONE Risk & Control domain, from inception through completion. Responsibilities include:• Lead and coordinate a portfolio of risk, control, and regulatory driven technology initiatives across multiple engineering and operational teams including assessments and testing activities of IT controls and processes to identify deficiencies, deviations, and compliance gaps.• Develop and update control and process documentation in support of complying with relevant standards, regulatory, industry, and customer expectations.• Track and manage risks, issues, and control gaps at multiple levels, ensuring timely mitigation and transparent escalation• Based on criticality and urgency, support remediation activities and link such activities back to monitor risk rating• Partner with front line and second line technology risk management teams to ensure alignment on risk management methodology, practices, terminology, etc.• Serve as a trusted delivery partner to senior leaders across TeamONE focusing upon the successful delivery of Technology, Risk, Security, and Business functions• Communicate program status, risks, and decisions clearly and concisely for senior leadership consumption• Facilitate complex technical and risk discussions, ensuring alignment and informed decision making• Drive data driven insights through metrics, reporting, and analysis to improve transparency and decision making• Set a high bar for delivery discipline, risk awareness, and stakeholder communication
All About you
Experience & Expertise• Proven experience in a Lead or Senior Technical Program Manager role delivering complex, cross organizational initiatives• Strong understanding of risk management, controls, and regulatory frameworks in large scale technology environments (US and EU preferred)• Experience partnering with Risk, Audit, Security, Compliance, and Engineering teams
Technical Proficiency: • Knowledge of IT general controls and related operations. • Experience in Mainframe, Oracle, SQL, Unix/Linux, HP Nonstop and/or Windows environments. • Knowledge of cybersecurity principles, best practices, and threat landscape.• Ability to both assess and test technology controls, vulnerabilities, and potential risks.• General understanding of technology infrastructure.
Risk Management Expertise:• Experience in delivering technology risk assessments, testing, and mitigation activities (e.g., understanding different steps in testing and how best to apply them).• Demonstrated experience in both executing and leading technology risk and control assessment and testing activities as part of a larger team and as an individual contributor.• General understanding of industry standards and regulatory requirements related to technology risk management (e.g., ISO 27001, NIST Cybersecurity Framework).
Execution and Communication:• Demonstrate strong execution skills, consistently meeting and exceeding team project deadlines, and goals both as an individual contributor and within a team dynamic.• Demonstrate ability to work in a global team environment, ensuring tasks are completely, thoroughly, and accurately executed. • Strong analytical skills to identify potential risks, assess their potential impact, and devise effective mitigation strategies.• Excellent communication skills to effectively convey technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including executive management.• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams, including other technology, security, compliance, application / product teams, and business / regional teams.
Qualifications (preferred but not required)• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field. • Experience in evaluating (assessing/testing) compliance with legal, regulatory, operational and IT requirements.• Professional Certification or Designation (e.g., CISA, CIA, CISSP, or equivalent).• Experience in payment eco systems.
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 [email protected] 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