Lead Program Security Engineer

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 Program Security Engineer

Mastercard is seeking a professional to join our Security Engineering team in Pune or Vadodara. Mastercard is developing the next generation of applications and services to enable consumers and businesses to securely, efficiently, and intelligently conduct payment transactions. Whether through traditional retail, mobile, or e-commerce, Mastercard innovation is leading the digital convergence of traditional and emerging payments technologies and continuously expanding products beyond through a vast array of security services. This position has a strong alignment to Franchise and Legal Solutions providing advisement on product security and strategies to help grow partner services and continuously improve security within MC and helping our partners understand what is needed to achieve MC security level excellence.

Can you demonstrate a high level of expertise in information security and secure development disciplines
Can you provide detailed guidance on the securely implement systems in public cloud environments
Can you advise development teams on how to securely design applications and services following industry best practices and enhance existing approaches to security engineering
Have you performed security analysis of mobile applications, web applications and web services and understand the threats, attacks and risks to payment applications
Can you analyze an application architecture to reduce the security risk to an acceptable level, while still providing beneficial functionality for the end user

Role

Provide technical design and architecture advice to internal teams on how to securely develop and build applications and supporting systems
Define secure mechanisms for critical business functions in cloud environments
Work closely with developers and evaluate business requests and proposed designs to determine feasibility; work with software development teams to define alternatives and recommend optimal solutions to meet security and regulatory requirements in the design of new enhanced systems
Leverage security experience and knowledge within the mobile and digital commerce arena to cultivate and maintain effective working relationships with a variety of internal MasterCard stakeholders, including business owners, end-users, customers, project managers, engineers, and senior management
Define security requirements and guidelines to ensure repeatable processes are followed by worldwide teams
Assist in the strategy, standards, and architecture for the security aspects of the SDLC including application, mobile, web service, DevOps, cloud, and CICD efforts

All About You

Strong understanding of information security, risk and data privacy within the domain of digital commerce including relevant practical experience
Demonstrate a broad awareness of security engineering concepts and practices across all phases of the software development lifecycle
Experience providing security architecture advice for web-based network environments and secure communication, including mobile applications, web applications and web services
Knowledge and technical security experience in cryptography, including several of the following encryption, hashing, key management, digital certificates, TLS
Knowledge of virtualization platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2, VMware vCloud Director, VMware vSphere and Google AppEngine, OpenStack or Azure
Experience of continuous delivery / continuous integration processes and procedures including critical security considerations in automated workflows
Technical experience with Java or similar enterprise programming language, especially related to secure coding best practices
Experienced in mobile security architecture concepts, design and implementation for Android and IOS
Demonstrated experience designing secure multi-domain Internet-facing applications
Demonstrate technical competency in security engineering based on hands-on experience or relevant qualifications
Working knowledge and technical security experience with UNIX, Linux, Solaris, or AIX
Demonstrate the ability to articulate and communicate effectively to diverse audiences and properly translates security and risk management terminology into business terms and recommends alternative solutions to these stakeholders.
Strong verbal and written communication skills

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.