Lead Technology Risk Analyst leads technology risk management, partnering with tech, security, and business stakeholders to identify, assess, monitor, and mitigate risks. Serves as SME for governance, operational resilience, risk assessments, issue management, and regulatory compliance. Develops frameworks, policies, procedures, reporting, drives remediation and continuous improvements, and provides risk insights to senior leadership.
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 Technology Risk Analyst
The Lead Technology Risk Analyst is responsible for leading and enhancing technology risk management practices across the organization. This role partners with technology, security, and business stakeholders to identify, assess, monitor, and mitigate technology risks that may impact the organization's ability to achieve its strategic objectives.
The position serves as a subject matter expert in technology risk governance, operational resilience, risk assessments, issue management, and regulatory compliance. The Lead Technology Risk Analyst facilitates cross-functional collaboration to ensure risks are appropriately identified, documented, escalated, and remediated in accordance with enterprise risk management standards.
This role is responsible for supporting the development and execution of technology risk frameworks, policies, procedures, risk assessments, and reporting, while providing effective challenge and guidance to technology teams. The individual will lead complex initiatives, analyze emerging risks and trends, drive continuous process improvements, and provide risk insights to senior leadership to support informed decision-making.
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:
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 Technology Risk Analyst
The Lead Technology Risk Analyst is responsible for leading and enhancing technology risk management practices across the organization. This role partners with technology, security, and business stakeholders to identify, assess, monitor, and mitigate technology risks that may impact the organization's ability to achieve its strategic objectives.
The position serves as a subject matter expert in technology risk governance, operational resilience, risk assessments, issue management, and regulatory compliance. The Lead Technology Risk Analyst facilitates cross-functional collaboration to ensure risks are appropriately identified, documented, escalated, and remediated in accordance with enterprise risk management standards.
This role is responsible for supporting the development and execution of technology risk frameworks, policies, procedures, risk assessments, and reporting, while providing effective challenge and guidance to technology teams. The individual will lead complex initiatives, analyze emerging risks and trends, drive continuous process improvements, and provide risk insights to senior leadership to support informed decision-making.
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.
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