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
1. Overview:
The Lead Platform Engineer role has the ability to perform architecture and engineering functions where the individual contributes and/or influences the strategic direction for the Platform Engineering Program. The individual will build a strong partnership with management and may manage operational and/or strategic initiatives or support for the team. The Lead Data Platform Engineer champions the Mastercard Way.
2. Role Description:
- Expertise in administering Exadata Engineered Systems and Oracle Databases.
- 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 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 enterprise project/initiatives with specialized knowledge within assigned discipline and the ability to architect solutions.
- Advanced written and verbal communication skills to promote Database Engineering.
- 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.
- Communicate, collaborate, and work effectively in a global environment.
- Ability to be on-call after hours and weekends.
- Creates a positive culture in Database Engineering following the Mastercard Way.
3. Experience:
- Minimum Qualification of BE/B. Tech/ ME/ M. Tech
- Minimum Relevant Experience of 8 Years
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.