Job 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
Senior Threat Intelligence Analyst
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.
Overview
Mastercard is seeking a Threat Intelligence Analyst to join the Mastercard Intelligence Center. This role will focus on gathering, analyzing, and reporting on cyber, physical, and geopolitical threats targeting Mastercard. The ideal candidate will have 5-8 years of experience in intelligence collection, analysis, production, and briefing, and will act as a liaison between internal Corporate Security teams, Mastercard technology teams, and external partners.
Key responsibilities include tracking Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) actors, leveraging Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) techniques, and identifying threats to Mastercard’s infrastructure. The analyst will also support mitigation efforts, explore opportunities for automation, and contribute to continuous process improvements.
Responsibilities
• Collect, process, analyze, publish, and disseminate threat intelligence for Mastercard
• Leverage that intelligence to threat-inform risk-based decisions across the organization
• Author risk assessments that capture threat landscape impacts to business operations
• Brief intelligence analysis to internal stakeholders
• Partner with internal stakeholders, principally the SOC, Vulnerability Management, Fraud Prevention, Regional Security, and Crisis Management to fuse intelligence from across the organization
• Partner with external stakeholders such as government departments, law enforcement, intelligence agencies, and industry to enable threat intelligence sharing across public and private partners
• Support threat scenario development for red teaming, exercising, and resilience testing
All About You
• Possesses a strong analytical mindset with experience collecting, evaluating, and synthesizing intelligence from diverse sources.
• Demonstrates solid understanding of intelligence tradecraft, including structured analytic techniques, threat modeling, and risk assessment methodologies.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Digital Forensics, Cybersecurity, Telecommunications, or Information Assurance.
• 5-8 years of experience as an intelligence analyst with a strong foundation in critical thinking and the intelligence cycle.
• Broad understanding of networking and enterprise IT systems.
• Has experience monitoring threat activity and translating complex information into clear, actionable intelligence products for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Communicates effectively in writing and verbally, with the ability to brief senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders with clarity and confidence.
• Demonstrates sound judgment, curiosity, and a proactive approach to identifying threats and informing risk-based decisions.
• Experience working in a global team or within a Follow-the-Sun operational model.
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. 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.

Job Tags

Full time, Worldwide

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Senior Threat Intelligence Analyst Job at Mastercard, Waterloo, IA

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