Director, Data Security Lead

Our Purpose

We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.

Title and Summary

Director, Data Security Lead

Our Purpose



Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential.



Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.



Overview



Responsible for the development, delivery, maintenance or monitoring of Data Security policies, standards, and best practices

Responsible for every aspect of data safety in the data ensuring there are minimal risk to the organisation by adopting and integrating the right technology

Work in partnership with the wider organisation such as security architect and technology to design and implement data security blueprint

Supports data security assessments and risk analysis, and makes recommendations to improve data security controls


Job title


Director Data Security



Role



Responsible for devising and overseeing the execution of the data security strategy including all aspects of encryption, obfuscation, masking, PKI and digital certificates management

Working collaboratively with peers to assess the threat landscape and devise strategies to mitigate risks to the business

Customer focused SME with extensive knowledge of Data Security and user experience

Oversees the management and acts as an authority on high-level complex decisions within the function

Creates and sustains an environment of ingenuity, creativity, and challenges the status quo to encourage innovation



About You



Experience with information discovery and classification across legacy and cloud environments including structured and unstructured data

Experience with data masking and encryption at a file and field level

Deep understanding Data Leakage Prevention, with a business focus on prevention AND monitoring - user behavioural analytics experience welcome

IT experience with demonstrated thought-leadership and functional influence and partnership

Experience initiating and managing improvement in security domain areas by leveraging process metrics



Corporate Security Responsibility



All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and datas 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.

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.