Description:

Our Purpose.

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide.

Together with our customers, were 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 Database Engineer.

Overview.

- The Database Engineering team is looking for a Lead Database Engineer to drive our customer experience strategy forward by consistently innovating and problem-solving.

- The ideal candidate is passionate about the customer experience journey, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possesses an entrepreneurial mindset.

- Provide Microsoft SQL Server Database support for MasterCard Application databases in On-Prem and Cloud databases such as AWS elasticache.

- As a Database Engineer, will play a critical role in designing, implementing, and maintaining Mastercards database systems.

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand data requirements, optimize database performance, and ensure data integrity and security along with maintaining best practices.

Role :

- Advanced hands-on experience in configuring, patching, upgrading, and optimizing database software and related products.

- Advanced experience in security, backup/recovery, architecture, networking, and administration for assigned database discipline.

- Proven record of accomplishment in working with technology teams for the development, maintenance, testing, implementation, and support of assigned database technologies and associated software products.

- Proactively monitor with advanced troubleshooting skills for database issues escalated by the business team and internal monitoring in a timely manner with strong skills to drive to root cause and remediation of issues.

- Ability to develop a strong partnership with technology teams and customers to understand business needs and with advanced skills to communicate solutions in business terms.

- Understand database security topics including database users, roles, and privileges.

- Understand cloud concepts including database administration activities in cloud solutions.

- Strong to advanced performance and tuning skills with the ability to identify, respond and resolve database performance issues; communicates database performance resolution to technical teams and business partners.

- Successfully follow change management, problem management and incident management processes and procedures.

- May manage large to enterprise project/initiatives with specialized knowledge within assigned discipline and the ability to architect solutions.

- Proven record of accomplishment to proactively plan and coordinate larger technical and architectural efforts within the database team and with external technology teams.

- Ability to influence Mastercard best practices in planning, coordinating, implementing, and maintaining database solutions.

- Proven record of accomplishment in training and mentoring members of the team by contributing to supporting documentation.

- Ability to be on-call after hours and weekends.

All About You :

The ideal candidate for this position should :

- Proactively monitoring database performance and troubleshooting issues.

- Working cross-functionally with our engineers and analytics professionals to optimize queries, fix performance bottlenecks.

- Creating and maintaining change control and testing processes, reviewing and approving database modifications.

- Have good knowledge of Replication strategy AlwaysOn.

- Reviewing development and deployment processes related to databases and identifying areas of improvement.

- Implement database changes and modifications as per the application release activities.

- Can do database patching, database upgrades and implement best practice on databases.

- Knowledge of SQL Server Analysis Services, SQL Server Integration Services, PowerBI report server.

- Improving database expertise company-wide.

- Additional knowledge of AWS and AZURE will be helpful as there are some critical respective modules resides on those technologies.