VP, Access Governance & Security Engineering

MasterCard; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 244,000 - 390,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Paid time off and leave

401k with company match

Job summary

Mastercard, Arlington, VA, is seeking a Vice President for Information Security Engineering focused on Employee Access Management Governance. You will lead governance, policy alignment, onboarding, and audit readiness across workforce, privileged, and machine identities, partnering with product, engineering, and risk teams.

Responsibilities include defining standards, enforcing controls, and driving improvements across enterprise access management.

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading identity and access management, governance, compliance, audit, risk management, or related security functions.
• Defined, implemented, and enforced governance frameworks, operational standards, controls, policies, and process management routines.
• Strong understanding of access management disciplines including identity lifecycle, provisioning, privileged access, reviews, and audit support.

Responsibilities

• Lead the EAM Governance organization responsible for access management governance, standards, controls, compliance, audit support, policy alignment, onboarding governance, and operational process enforcement.
• Define, maintain, and enforce enterprise access management standards, procedures, operating models, and control expectations across EAM capabilities.
• Own day-to-day governance and operational management of EAM processes, ensuring teams follow standards, controls, and compliance requirements.
• Provide governance over audit readiness, control execution, evidence management, remediation tracking, and regulatory response activities.
• Partner with audit, risk, compliance, and product/engineering teams to integrate governance into roadmaps and transformations.
• Establish onboarding governance for applications and emerging AI-based identities.
• Oversee operational access management processes, including BAU activities, access hygiene, and testing.
• Drive continuous improvement using metrics and risk indicators.
• Lead remediation efforts for audit findings and control gaps.

Skills

Identity & access management

Governance & controls

Audit & compliance

Stakeholder management

Security operations

Job description

Mastercard, Arlington, VA, is seeking a Vice President for Information Security Engineering focused on Employee Access Management Governance. You will lead governance, policy alignment, onboarding, and audit readiness across workforce, privileged, and machine identities, partnering with product, engineering, and risk teams.

Responsibilities include defining standards, enforcing controls, and driving improvements across enterprise access management.