VP Technology Risk & Resilience

Mastercard; O’Fallon (MO); On-site; USD 189,000 - 312,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard seeks a Vice President, Technology Risk Management to lead ProCOM's risk, governance, and operational readiness efforts. The role partners with technology, product, security, and regulatory functions to enhance risk controls and production readiness across Mastercard's platforms.

The position drives scalable governance, continuous improvement, and risk-informed decision-making in a global technology environment. Requires strategic leadership and strong executive communication.

Qualifications

• Extensive leadership experience in technology risk management.
• Experience leading large-scale risk, governance, resilience, or operational transformation programs.
• Deep understanding of technology risk management frameworks, control environments, regulatory expectations.
• Experience establishing and scaling governance models, risk management programs, and executive oversight mechanisms.
• Strong knowledge of technology operations, engineering practices, service management, production readiness, and risk concepts.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the strategic vision, operating model, and roadmap for Technology Risk Management within ProCOM.
• Lead the development, implementation, and governance of technology risk frameworks, methodologies, standards, procedures, and controls across the technology organization.
• Establish and oversee enterprise-wide processes for technology risk identification, assessment, treatment, monitoring, escalation, and reporting.
• Drive consistent adoption of risk management, operational resilience, production readiness, and control practices across products, platforms, and engineering organizations.
• Provide executive oversight of technology risk portfolios, key risk indicators, control effectiveness measures, issue remediation activities, and emerging risk trends.
• Lead governance forums and executive reporting processes that communicate technology risk posture, operational health, resilience metrics, and strategic priorities.
• Partner with Technology, Product, Security, Compliance, Internal Audit, Enterprise Risk Management, and Regulatory Affairs to ensure alignment with enterprise and regulatory requirements.
• Oversee technology control governance activities, including standards compliance, audit readiness, risk assessments, control validation, and evidence management.
• Drive the evolution of risk intelligence capabilities by leveraging operational data, analytics, automation, and insights to support proactive risk management and decision-making.
• Champion operational resilience initiatives and ensure technology risks are considered throughout the lifecycle of products, services, platforms, and major technology change programs.

Skills

Leadership experience

Governance & risk management

Cybersecurity concepts

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Job description

Mastercard seeks a Vice President, Technology Risk Management to lead ProCOM's risk, governance, and operational readiness efforts. The role partners with technology, product, security, and regulatory functions to enhance risk controls and production readiness across Mastercard's platforms.

The position drives scalable governance, continuous improvement, and risk-informed decision-making in a global technology environment. Requires strategic leadership and strong executive communication.