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Lead Security Metrics Analyst
Mastercard International Incorporated · 🇺🇸 O'Fallon, Missouri
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 76 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 286 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Mastercard International Incorporated paid sponsored hires in similar roles1 certified filing for “Lead Vulnerability Analyst” (Information Security Analysts) in MO: $132k–$132k, median $132k. Most were filed at wage level IV (100%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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Sponsor Radar — Mastercard International Incorporated
The US Department of Labor certified 76 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 286 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
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 Security Metrics Analyst Who is Mastercard? 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. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all. Mission First, People Always Corporate Security is responsible for keeping Mastercard safe and secure from cyber and physical threats. We are a highly effective team protecting a major component of global payments infrastructure. Our new Security Risk and Control Operations team is at the forefront of this effort in the “1st Line of Defense,” coordinating efforts across Corporate Security, enterprise risk management, and market-facing product teams to assess risks, implement controls to mitigate them, and provide assurance to regulators and stakeholders of Mastercard’s best-in-class performance in information security. We are seeking a Lead Security Metrics Analyst to drive the development, collection, analysis, and reporting of metrics related to cybersecurity, to enable risk management and meet regulatory requirements. Working directly with owners of security controls, you will coordinate the flow of metric data and maintain collection and visualization tools to inform actions by the security team. In this role you will: • Lead the development, implementation, and governance of security metrics, Key Risk Indicators (KRIs), and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) across Corporate Security domains. • Develop and maintain Power BI dashboards, scorecards, and executive reporting products that provide actionable insights into security risk, control effectiveness, issue management, and operational performance. • Build and support Dataverse solutions, including Power Apps and Power Automate, that streamline metric collection, governance processes, and reporting. • Partner with security, risk, compliance, and operational teams to identify new reporting requirements and translate business needs into scalable data solutions and automated processes. • Develop and maintain metric methodologies, centralized metric repositories, and supporting governance documentation to ensure consistency, transparency, and traceability of reporting. • Analyze security, risk, and operational data to identify trends, emerging risks, control effectiveness insights, and opportunities for process improvement. • Drive automation initiatives that improve data quality, reduce manual effort, and enhance reporting efficiency across security and risk management functions. • Support regulatory remediation, audit activities, and risk governance forums through development of reporting solutions, evidence gathering, and performance measurement capabilities. • Present metric methodologies, reporting outputs, and risk insights to governance forums and executive stakeholders to support risk-informed decision making. • Provide technical leadership