Principal, PMT Regulatory Relations Market & Compliance Job Listing at Mastercard in O'Fallon, MO (Job ID R-248850)

Description

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, PMT Regulatory Relations Market & Compliance Principal, PMT Regulatory Relations Market & Compliance

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.

Regulatory Relations and Market Compliance

The Regulatory Relations and Market Compliance (RRMC) organization is a business enabler and industry leader of technology and security risk management practices, supported by a multi-disciplinary team of top security, technology, and risk professionals. The team is responsible for working with, and demonstrating to, our stakeholders (e.g., regulators, customers, Mastercard businesses) how Mastercard complies with our promises, commitments, and obligations and also as a member of the front-line risk organization. We do this by translating regulatory and customer requirements into actionable information and demonstrating how Mastercard standards/controls meet and/or exceed these expectations.

Overview
As the Principal for Regulatory and Market Resilience, you will lead Mastercard's efforts across the global region to meet and exceed resilience mandates from regulators, ensuring our technology landscape is secure, available, and future proof. The ideal candidate is passionate about risk & controls, highly motivated, and understands how to interact effectively with technology landscape.
This is a high-impact, high-visibility role at the intersection of regulatory technology, product management, and operational excellence. You'll serve as the global thought leader and program owner, aligning Mastercard's technology assets and strategic roadmap with evolving expectations such as DORA and PSD3.
Role/Key Responsibilities
• Strategic Leadership: Own and evolve the global technology resilience strategy aligned to Mastercard's global regulatory execution roadmap.
• Regulatory Engagement: Represent Mastercard's technology position in regulatory consultations and supervisory engagements with central banks, regulators, and high-level partners.
• Program Governance: Lead global execution of the Technology Regulatory Resilience portfolio, driving prioritization, execution planning, and measurable outcomes.
• Risk Stewardship: Conduct resilience risk assessments and design prevention-oriented improvements across edge infrastructure and critical platforms.
• Cross-functional Influence: Collaborate with Product, Public Policy, Legal, Engineering, and Operations to embed resilience-by-design principles in our infrastructure and services.
• Innovation & Foresight: Act as a resilience evangelist, advising on technical designs, control frameworks, and architecture trade-offs that align with next-gen fintech, card payments, real-time payments, and open banking.
• Engagement: Engage with global product vertical heads in articulating resilience risks, problem discovery, resolution, and risk prevention to define execution plans.

All About You/Experience
• Around 15 years in technology with deep expertise in resilience, regulatory compliance, or risk within card payments, fintech or financial services.
• Strong understanding of global regulatory regimes (e.g., DORA, PSD3, ECB guidance, SIPS).
• advanced knowledge of NIST, ISO, PCI, and other leading control frameworks
• advanced understanding of risk & controls associated within security and technology domains
• Proven leadership in delivering large-scale, cross-border regulatory or risk technology programs.
• Strong communication and influence with senior leaders, regulators, and external partners.
• Excellent analytical and problem-structuring skills; capable of balancing regulatory detail with architectural vision.
• Fluency with resilience principles (e.g., SLOs, RTO/RPO, failover) and secure-by-design practices.
• Experience in platform modernization, distributed systems, APIs, and modern payments ecosystems. Collaborative, proactive, and accountable with a high level of ownership and curiosity.
• Experience in a consultancy or technology regulatory advisory capacity is a strong plus.
• A strong believer in “resilience by design” and prevention-first engineering principles.

Corporate Security Responsibility
• Every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security. All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and therefore, it is expected that the successful candidate for this position 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. Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

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.

In line with Mastercard's total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance), flexible spending account and health savings account, paid leaves (including 16 weeks new parent leave, up to 20 paid days bereavement leave), 10 annual paid sick days, 10 or more annual paid vacation days based on level, 5 personal days, 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays, 401k with a best-in-class company match, deferred compensation for eligible roles, fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities, eligibility for tuition reimbursement, gender-inclusive benefits and many more.

Pay Ranges

O'Fallon, Missouri: $148,000 - $237,000 USD

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