Lead Platform Engineer

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

Lead Platform Engineer

Job Description Summary
Overview
• Provide world-class support and expertise to all of MasterCard’s Database environments.
• MasterCard’s Database Architects set the direction for the enterprise leadership to design and build highly available, scalable and efficient solutions
• Represent MasterCard’s Data Architecture team as a subject matter expert.
• Continually look for opportunities to create efficiencies and provide expertise to integrate technologies and platforms into current environments
• Provide leadership and contribute to technology roadmaps to support MasterCard’s vision
• What technologies do you have hands-on experience with, and what degree is that experience?
• In your current role, what new database technologies have you integrated into your current environment and how?
• What experience do you have with data migration and integration from multiple systems?

Role
• Configure and set up new database installations
• Review existing configurations and installations and provide design decisions for improvements to platform environments
• Implements backup strategies and performs upgrades and patching
• Develop architectures to migrate data and entire databases; Implement and deliver on the architecture migrating databases.
• Perform production level support and be part of the on call rotation when required.
• Work with RDBMS vendors and their respected support channels when required.
• Work with multiple application teams and developers
• Lead and set direction for MasterCard’s use of best practices and application database solutions.
• Work with management to plan and implement new strategies including new tools and products that provide data services.
• Lead efforts to identify, communicate and implement new strategies and represents Data Architecture in high level planning and long term direction.
• Advance knowledge of Oracle middleware (OEM/ODI/OWB/APEX).
• Advance knowledge of Oracle physical database tuning.
• Intermediate/Advance knowledge of SQL tuning background.
• Working knowledge of backup/recovery
• Working PL/SQL coding background.
• Advance implementation knowledge of partitioning.
• Advanced knowledge of Oracle RAC, Cluster Resource software and Oracle 12C features.

Education preferred:
• Bachelor’s Degree in Information systems or equivalent experience.

About You
• Excellent trouble shooting skills
• Displays excellent collaborative skills to facilitate cross-functional teams.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision seeking direction as required
• Demonstrates excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Highly knowledgeable of RDBMS architecture and internal database workings
• Forward thinking infrastructure automation and scripting skills.
• Leads in managing clients expectations and communicates proactively.
• Ability to work with team members located in multiple geographies and time zones
• Proficient with Oracle RDBMS installation and configuration.
• Proficient with Oracle Enterprise Monitoring and alerting tools/processes
• Proficient in setup, configuration and monitoring of Oracle & Postgresql binary and logical data replication solutions (binary streaming, xDB Multi Master replication, Oracle Data Guard, Oracle GoldenGate)
• Proficient with collecting diagnostics and tuning Oracle as well as SQL tuning
• Proficient with Oracle & Postgres procedural languages (PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python) and SQL
• Proficient with Linux (RedHat)
• Working knowledge of Data Modelling.
• Working knowledge of scripting languages, Bash,KSH, perl etc

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.