Vice President, Technology Risk Managment

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 Vice President, Technology Risk Managment Overview The Vice President, Technology Risk Management leads the Program Controls, Operations & Modernization (ProCOM) Technology Risk Management function and is responsible for establishing, governing, and continuously enhancing the risk, controls, resilience, and operational governance capabilities that support Mastercard's technology organization. This role provides strategic leadership for enterprise technology risk management, ensuring risks are proactively identified, assessed, managed, and reported while maintaining alignment with regulatory expectations, enterprise risk frameworks, and Mastercard's commitment to operational excellence. The position serves as a key partner to technology, product, engineering, security, and business leaders to drive a strong culture of risk ownership, control effectiveness, production readiness, resilience, and continuous improvement. Through standardized governance practices, risk intelligence, operational insights, and control frameworks, this role enables informed decision-making, strengthens organizational accountability, and supports the scalable growth of Mastercard's products, platforms, and technology services. The Vice President is accountable for advancing ProCOM's vision of delivering integrated risk management, governance, operational readiness, and modernization capabilities that improve technology outcomes and enhance customer trust. Role - 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. - Lead organizational efforts to identify systemic control gaps, recurring operational issues, and opportunities to strengthen risk mana