Senior Vice President, Truata – Privacy-Enhancing Technology

Our Purpose

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Title and Summary

Senior Vice President, Truata – Privacy-Enhancing Technology

The Senior Vice President of PETs (Truata) will lead a Dublin-based organization of technologists responsible for designing, building, and operating cloud-based platforms that enable privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) at enterprise scale. This organization delivers secure, compliant, and high-utility solutions that allow the responsible use of data while adhering to global legal, regulatory, and contractual requirements.

This role provides executive leadership across a combination of product development, hands-on technology leadership, cloud infrastructure expertise, and deep experience in data engineering and platform delivery, with a strong emphasis on privacy-by-design, governance, and trust. The SVP serves as a senior partner to privacy, legal, security, data science, and product teams to translate complex policy and regulatory constraints into scalable, developer-friendly technical data products and data capabilities.

The role will report into the Chief Data Officer and cross-report into the Services Technology organization.

Key Responsibilities:

PET Product, Tech & Platform Leadership
Own the technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for platforms enabling privacy-enhancing data use, including:
• Strategy and roadmaps for building and running PET internal and external products in partnership with relevant data and product teams
• Independent anonymization services delivered through data trust models (Truata)
• Data clean rooms built and operated in a cloud environment
• Policy-driven data access and usage controls that enforce legal and contractual restrictions at scale
• Ensure platforms for delivering PETs are secure, scalable, highly available, and auditable, with strong operational discipline across development, deployment, and production support.
• Leverage the technical platform to support MA’s overall data cloud strategy

Privacy, Governance & Compliance by Design
• Embed privacy-enhancing technologies and governance controls directly into platform architecture, including anonymization techniques, clean room rule enforcement, logging, and monitoring.
• Partner with Legal, Privacy, Risk, and Security teams to translate regulatory requirements (e.g., data residency, purpose limitation, consent, and usage restrictions) into enforceable technical controls.
• Ensure platforms support internal and external audits with strong transparency, lineage, and reporting capabilities.

PET Cloud Infrastructure & Engineering Execution
• Lead the design and operation of cloud-native infrastructure for the delivery of PETs, including compute, storage, networking, identity, and security controls, optimized for sensitive data workloads.
• Oversee related data engineering initiatives, including ingestion, transformation, anonymization, and controlled analytics across multi-tenant environments.
• Establish engineering standards for reliability, performance, cost management, and observability across these solutions.

Organizational & People Leadership
• Lead, mentor, and scale a high-performing team of ~35 engineers, architects, and platform specialists based in Dublin while operating as part of a globally distributed Data Strategy organization.
• Set strategic roadmap and lead the quarterly Truata board meetings, including establishing an agenda and relevant board material in collaboration with the board members
• Foster a culture of technical excellence, accountability, and collaboration across geographies and functions.

Strategic Partnership & Influence
• Act as a senior technology voice for privacy-enhancing platforms with executive stakeholders.
• Collaborate with product, data science, and commercial teams to enable new data-driven offerings and partnerships while maintaining trust and compliance.
• Evaluate and integrate third-party technologies and cloud-native capabilities where appropriate.

All About You
• Progressive leadership experience shaping and scaling technology platforms within complex, enterprise environments, with demonstrated impact at the executive level.
• Deep expertise stewarding data in highly regulated environments, enabling business value while ensuring adherence to evolving regulatory, risk, and compliance requirements.
• Proven executive leadership of cloud infrastructure and platform organizations, operating at global scale and supporting mission‑critical, data‑intensive workloads.
• Strategic oversight of large-scale data engineering initiatives, including distributed processing, analytics platforms, and end‑to‑end production data ecosystems.
• Demonstrated accountability for platforms handling sensitive and regulated data, with privacy, security, resiliency, and governance embedded as foundational design principles.
• Strong command of modern cloud and data ecosystems (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP; Databricks or equivalent), with the ability to set architectural direction and guide long‑term platform evolution.
• Track record of delivering and operating highly available, enterprise‑grade services that support multiple business lines and both internal and external stakeholders.
• Experienced leader of large, multi‑disciplinary organizations, spanning software engineering, data engineering, and platform operations, with a focus on talent development, operating model maturity, and sustained performance.

Preferred Experience
• Direct experience with privacy-enhancing technologies, such as anonymization, data clean rooms, differential privacy, or synthetic data.
• Familiarity with transaction data, financial data, or similarly sensitive large-scale datasets.
• Experience translating complex legal or regulatory requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Prior senior leadership experience in Europe or managing globally distributed engineering teams.

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.