Vice President, Software Supply Chain Security

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, Software Supply Chain Security

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, Software Supply Chain Security

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 lines who make this happen every day.

By taking care of our people, their wellbeing, and career development, we provide them with the necessary tools and environment to ensure the success of our mission.

Overview

The Network Engineering Services team is looking for a Vice President of Software Supply Chain Security. The VP is senior leader responsible for protecting the integrity, provenance, and trustworthiness of all software that powers the company's global payments ecosystem. This role ensures end-to-end security across internal development, third-party software, CI/CD pipelines, cloud workloads, vendor integrations, and payment processing platforms that require the highest levels of reliability, compliance, and resiliency.

Role

Define the Software Supply Chain Security Strategy aligned to the company's global payments mission, regulatory obligations, and risk appetite.

Build and lead high performing global Dev Sec Ops , platform engineering, and security automation teams.

Architect security for CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code frameworks, and automation platforms

Embed security controls into development workflows, including SAST/DAST, SBOM, dependency scanning, secrets management, to eliminate preventable exposure

Establish governance for software bill of materials (SBOM), artifact integrity, code provenance, and policy-as-code guardrails

Promote a secure-by-default engineering culture with paved roads for secure component consumption, signing, building, and deployment.

Parter with Vulnerability Management on strategy and outcomes for end-to-end detection, triage, risk acceptance, remediation, validation and overall exposure management

Partner with Dev Ops on cloud strategy and operations (AWS, Azure, GCP, or hybrid), ensuring resilient, scalable, and secure infrastructure.

Partner with Legal, Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM), and Procurement to enforce contractual obligations for secure development, reporting, incident notification, and replace/patch SLAs.

All About You

Demonstrated effectiveness leading Security, Platform/Dev Ops, or Software Engineering teams

Proven track record of implementing software supply chain controls…