Director Security Engineering for Blockchain and Digital Solutions

Overview

As Director of Security Engineering, you will lead a team securing Mastercard’s Crypto Products and Blockchain Networks, Prepaid Services, Cardholder Services, and Payment Optimization initiatives. You’ll partner with engineering, product, and business leaders to embed security-by-design and ensure regulatory compliance. Your guidance shapes architecture and security standards for scalable digital payment solutions. This is a chance to influence crypto-enabled platforms at a global payments leader. You’ll drive risk-aware decisions while fostering cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a security engineering team, supporting career development and quality outcomes
• Mature engineering capabilities, streamline procedures, and enable scalability
• Advise engineering and business leaders across Cryptocurrency Blockchain Products and Digital Solutions programs
• Recommend secure design solutions to meet security and regulatory requirements
• Conduct comprehensive security reviews of new and existing tech against internal and industry standards
• Assist program teams in managing security risk to acceptable levels with reporting and analysis
• Shape security requirements and architectural patterns for large-scale crypto products in line with external guidance
• Build and sustain relationships with stakeholders across business units, engineers, project managers and executives

Key requirements

• Experience leading technical security teams for critical software products
• Strong leadership with ability to mentor and develop team members
• Ability to negotiate with stakeholders to balance risk with business opportunities while maintaining compliance
• Excellent communication skills to translate security concepts for business audiences
• Broad security engineering background with technology, business, and risk awareness
• Deep understanding of cryptography and blockchain security principles
• Knowledge of web security, secure software design, and data protection
• Experience with risk-based security and compliance frameworks (SOC 2, PCI DSS, DORA, CRI)

• leadership
• clear communication
• stakeholder management
• cryptography concepts (symmetric/asymmetric, hashing, digital signatures)
• blockchain security principles
• secure software design and application security

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