Lead, Information Security Engineering

About the role

Mastercard is looking for a Lead in Information Security Engineering to join its Security Engineering team in Pune, India. You will help shape the security architecture of next‑generation payment applications and services, ensuring they are built securely from the ground up.

Key responsibilities

• Provide design and architecture guidance to internal teams for secure development of applications and supporting systems.
• Define and implement secure mechanisms for critical business functions in public‑cloud environments.
• Collaborate closely with developers to evaluate business requests and proposed designs, offering feasible, security‑focused alternatives.
• Conduct security analysis of mobile, web applications and services, identifying threats, attacks and risks specific to payment solutions.
• Review and improve existing security engineering approaches, ensuring alignment with industry best practices.

Required profile

• Extensive expertise in information security and secure development disciplines.
• Proven experience securing applications in public‑cloud environments.
• Ability to advise development teams on secure design and implementation of applications and services.
• Hands‑on experience performing security assessments of mobile and web applications.
• Strong analytical skills to evaluate architecture and reduce security risk while maintaining functionality.

Required skills

• Information security
• Secure development
• Cloud security
• Application security
• Mobile application security
• Web application security