Principal Security Monitoring and Response Analyst

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 Principal Security Monitoring and Response Analyst Director – Corporate Security Operations (Principal Program Lead) 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. Mission First, People Always As Corporate Security, we are responsible for keeping Mastercard safe and secure from cyber and physical threats, and it is our people on the front who make this happen every day.    By taking care of our people, their well-being, and their career development, we provide them with the necessary tools and environment to ensure the success of our mission. Overview The Principal Security Monitoring and Response Analyst is the principal program lead and senior subject matter expert for the integrated Security Operations Center (SOC), Incident Response (IR), and Insider Threat capability. The role’s mission is to bring these operations together as one coordinated program, improving how Mastercard detects, investigates, responds to, and learns from cyber and insider threats while preserving functional ownership, investigative independence, and appropriate confidentiality. The role sets program direction, establishes common standards, coordinates cross-functional delivery, and drives measurable improvements across people, process, and technology. It provides authoritative technical and operational leadership for complex incidents and ensures that modernization initiatives are adopted into business-as-usual operations.   In this role you will: • Develop and govern the integrated SOC, IR, and Insider Threat program roadmap, aligning priorities, milestones, dependencies, risks, resources, capability gaps, and success measures with the wider multi-year modernization strategy. • Act as the authority for integrated operating practices while respecting functional ownership and investigative independence. • Integrate technology modernization into business-as-usual operations through clear process ownership, adoption plans, training, and sustained use. • Define end-to-end operating models, standards, playbooks, escalation paths, decision rights, and handoffs across security monitoring and response. • Define and monitor measures of operational speed, quality, consistency, preparedness, and effectiveness across detection, triage, investigation, containment, recovery, and post-incident improvement, supported by valid evidence. • Serve as the senior SME for high-severity incidents and sensitive security matters, providing technical direction and cross-functional coordination while preserving appropriate confidentiality and need-to-know controls. • Leverage threat intelligence, incident trends, insider threa