Manager, Technology Control Testing, Services Technology Risk

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 Manager, Technology Control Testing, Services Technology Risk 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. 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: The Services Technology Risk team is looking for a Manager, Service Technology Risk professional, to help maintain secure, resilient, and trusted technology environments while enabling innovation and growth. The ideal candidate is a practical, risk-focused leader who sees control testing as a source of insight, not a checklist exercise. They bring a continuous improvement mindset, using lessons learned and testing observations to make the program more efficient each cycle, and partnering with engineering teams to identify, assess, and advance opportunities to automate testing, including AI-enabled approaches, as the function matures and scales controls, and build secure, resilient technology solutions at scale. They view compliance and assurance not as a check-the-box exercise, but as an opportunity to strengthen engineering practices, improve control effectiveness, and enable the business to move faster with confidence. Role: The Manager, Technology Control Testing will lead and build out the first-line technology control testing function within Services Technology Risk. This hands-on people leader will own the design and execution of a risk-based annual control testing plan across products and platforms in the Services organization, while managing and developing a direct report and overseeing consultant resources as scope requires. This role is ideal for someone with deep experience executing end-to-end technology control testing across complex, multi-layered environments, who can clearly distinguish controls owned by a product from those inherited from shared platforms. The successful candidate will be comfortable performing testing directly while setting the methodology, standards, and quality bar for the function, applying sound judgment to scoping decisions, and communicating clearly with stakeholders and leadership on status, risks, and results. The Manager, Technology Control Testing, Services Technology Risk will: • Build, own, and execute a risk-based annual control testing plan for products and platforms across the Services organization, reassessing the approach where shortcomings are identified and scaling it as scope grows year over year. • Lead, coach, and develop direct reports, including setting objectives, assigning and balancing work, managing performance, and reviewing testing work for quality and completeness. • Perform hands-on, end-to-end technology control testing across complex environments, identifying and differentiating controls ow