Mastercard
Waterloo, Belgium
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.
Senior Analyst - Public Sector, Business Development (Cyber Security & Agentic)
Senior Analyst, Global–Public Sector, Business Development (Cyber Security & Agentic)
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 The Mastercard Public Sector team partners globally to help governments create sustainable, inclusive, and efficient economies while achieving commercial success. Our market leaders are supported by a Global Public Sector team specializing in Agentic, Cybersecurity, Urban Mobility, Government Payments, SMEs, and Tourism.
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced AI and/or Cybersecurity Expert to join our team and work closely with various government agencies. The Senior Analyst, Cybersecurity & Agentic solutions will support the Vice President looking after Cybersecurity within Mastercard’s Global Public Sector team. This role will serve as a force multiplier—driving research, analytics, solution enablement, and execution support across cybersecurity and emerging agentic (AI-driven, autonomous and semi-autonomous) capabilities relevant to government clients. The Senior Analyst will combine deep analytical rigor, strong storytelling, and hands-on execution to help shape cybersecurity and agentic narratives, support priority opportunities, and enable market teams globally. The role requires comfort operating at the intersection of cybersecurity, AI/agentic systems, government policy, and commercial execution.
Role & Key responsibilities
Strategic & Market Intelligence
• Analyze global public sector cybersecurity and agentic AI trends, including policy, regulation, threats, and procurement models.
• Synthesize government pain points, demand signals, and competitive dynamics across cyber, identity, fraud, and resilience.
• Translate market intelligence into actionable pipeline insights Cybersecurity & Agentic Solution Enablement
• Support development of government-facing cybersecurity and agentic solution narratives aligned to Mastercard assets and partners.
• Help position responsible use of agentic capabilities to advance public sector security, resilience, and trust.
Agentic & Emerging Technology
• Research and articulate agentic AI use cases for public sector cybersecurity (e.g., autonomous defense, fraud detection, threat intelligence).
• Support VP-led development of agentic positioning, guardrails, and use‑case frameworks aligned to government expectations.
• Track global AI and agentic policy, regulatory, and ethical developments and assess implications on government related activities Execution & Operating Model Support
• Partner with management and market teams to develop local narratives, coordinate cross‑functional inputs, and track KPIs.
• Support innovation hubs, convenings, and forums through content, briefings, and post‑event synthesis.
• Contribute to community‑of‑practice tools, training, and sales enablement playbooks.
All About You
• Min 5 years of experience in AI, Cybersecurity, data, technology strategy, public sector consulting, government advisory, or adjacent fields.
• Strong understanding of the cybersecurity ecosystem (threats, controls, resilience, data protection) and growing familiarity with AI and agentic systems.
• Experience supporting or engaging with government or regulated industries; exposure to procurement, policy, or regulatory environments is a strong asset.
• Exceptional analytical, research, and synthesis skills—able to turn complexity into clear, executive-ready insights.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to tailor content for executive, client, and sales audiences.
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable supporting multiple initiatives across regions and time zones.
• Curious, adaptable, and comfortable working in environments with ambiguity and emerging technologies.
• Collaborative and inclusive team player with the confidence to engage senior stakeholders.
• Travel required.
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: