VP, Information Security Governance & Access

Socket.dev; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 244,000 - 390,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard seeks a Vice President, Information Security Engineering to lead Employee Access Management Governance across workforce, privileged, application and machine identities, including emerging AI-based identities.

The VP will define standards, enforce controls, enable onboarding, ensure audit readiness, and partner with product, engineering, risk, compliance, and audit teams to scale governance across the enterprise.

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading identity and access management, access governance, compliance, audit, risk management, security operations.

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 the day-to-day governance and operational management of EAM processes, ensuring teams follow defined standards, controls, service expectations, and compliance requirements.
• Provide leadership over access management compliance, audit readiness, control execution, evidence management, remediation tracking, and regulatory response activities.
• Partner with internal audit, compliance, risk, and control teams to ensure access management controls are clearly defined, effectively executed, continuously monitored, and supported with appropriate evidence.
• Lead governance over application onboarding into EAM capabilities, ensuring consistent intake, prioritization, readiness assessment, control alignment, documentation, and operational handoff.
• Establish standards and governance for onboarding emerging access use cases, including AI-enabled applications, AI agents, machine identities, service accounts, privileged access patterns, and non-human identities.
• Oversee operational access management processes, including recurring business-as-usual activities, work order resolution, service channels, access hygiene, segregation of duties support, user acceptance testing, quality assurance, and process optimization.
• Drive continuous improvement across EAM governance and operations by using metrics, process performance data, issue trends, customer feedback, risk indicators, and control outcomes.
• Lead remediation efforts related to audit findings, control gaps, policy exceptions, operational issues, and access management process deficiencies.
• Partner with EAM Product and Engineering teams to ensure governance, compliance, onboarding, and operational requirements are incorporated into product roadmaps, platform migrations, and modernization efforts.
• Provide governance oversight for major EAM initiatives, migrations, and transformation activities, including EAM tool controls migration, EAM tool transition activities, governance-related processes, and other access management modernization programs.

Skills

Identity and Access Management

Governance & Compliance

Audit Readiness

Risk Management

Security Operations

Job description

Mastercard seeks a Vice President, Information Security Engineering to lead Employee Access Management Governance across workforce, privileged, application and machine identities, including emerging AI-based identities.

The VP will define standards, enforce controls, enable onboarding, ensure audit readiness, and partner with product, engineering, risk, compliance, and audit teams to scale governance across the enterprise.