Top Fintech Cybersecurity Jobs

Conduct red team, purple team, penetration testing, and threat emulation exercises across systems, networks, applications, and cloud environments. Identify vulnerabilities through reconnaissance, lateral movement, privilege escalation, phishing, social engineering, and adversary simulations. Develop custom scripts and tools, document findings, and communicate risks and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Performs cybersecurity consulting engagements involving vulnerability assessments, social engineering exercises, network and cloud testing, risk analysis, remediation recommendations, reporting, and client presentations. Coordinates assigned project activities, monitors scope and budgets, maintains cybersecurity expertise, contributes to service improvements, mentors junior consultants, and supports sales opportunities.

Leads information security strategy and execution for the Federal Reserve System’s District IT and Corporate Services portfolio. Advises senior technology and business leaders, manages cybersecurity risk and tolerance, develops resilient security practices, and partners across a matrixed organization to deliver secure technology services. Builds high-performing, AI-savvy teams, drives change and innovation, manages stakeholders and external partners, and aligns security initiatives with business objectives and system standards.

Owns the Software Security product vision, strategy, roadmap, goals, and backlog. Translates customer needs into user stories and technical requirements, prioritizes work across product teams, resolves sequencing conflicts, and leads cross-functional collaboration. The role requires strong application security, DevSecOps, SSDLC, cloud security, Agile, stakeholder management, regulatory compliance, and product leadership experience.

Investigates fraud alerts, referrals, suspected fraudulent activity, account takeover, and identity concerns. Reviews evidence, validates client activity, manages cases, documents findings, dispositions alerts, secures compromised accounts, and supports transaction reversals. The role also analyzes fraud trends, identifies control gaps, recommends process improvements, communicates with affected clients and business partners, and escalates significant issues. Candidates need analytical, communication, organizational, and decision-making skills, financial services or fraud experience, and proficiency with Microsoft Excel and Word.

Leads Mastercard’s global government cybersecurity engagement strategy, partnering with senior leadership and representing the organization with governments, cybersecurity agencies, critical infrastructure bodies, and multilateral institutions. Oversees advisory councils, strategic workstreams, policy and threat landscape analysis, executive communications, internal stakeholder alignment, and team development. Builds partnerships and positions Mastercard as a trusted cybersecurity advisor while improving the coherence, efficiency, and impact of global engagement activities.

Leads risk strategy and advisory activities for Emerging and B2B businesses, translating complex technology and cybersecurity risks into executive presentations and strategic recommendations. Advises stakeholders across business, technology, cyber, compliance, and lines of defense; identifies risks and process improvements; oversees technology initiatives; leads cross-functional programs; and drives risk reporting, mitigation strategies, and continuous improvement. The role requires strong technical writing, analysis, communication, and technology risk management expertise.

Lead global security investigations and incident response, serving as incident commander for major events and guiding containment, remediation, recovery, and postmortems. Manage and develop a technical response team, establish readiness practices, improve security tooling and telemetry, and drive detection and automation enhancements. Translate incident metrics and business impact into executive and board-level reporting while developing AI-enabled investigation workflows with appropriate safeguards.

Build and operate security platform services, asset and identity ownership systems, automated security reviews, vulnerability triage workflows, and AI guardrails. Develop production automation with approval, testing, monitoring, and on-call support. Partner with engineering, infrastructure, IT, and product teams while contributing code reviews, design reviews, runbooks, and technical guidance.

Develops PAM strategy, architecture, and technical designs; leads implementation, configuration, maintenance, monitoring, and troubleshooting of privileged access platforms. Establishes least-privilege controls, access policies, session isolation, user entitlements, and Privileged Access Workstations. Coordinates project plans, documentation, compliance improvements, and cross-functional IAM initiatives while resolving issues affecting strategic and technical goals.