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) ... (truncated, view full listing at source)