Mastercard - Woodstock, IL
posted 3 months ago
The Senior Oracle DBA plays a critical role within the Digital Service Delivery organization at Mastercard. This individual will lead large initiatives, gathering requirements through feature requests from development partners, performing analysis and implementation of database designs, providing consulting, and driving best practices, governance, and standards of Database Engineering within the company. The Digital Service Delivery team is looking for a candidate who can help solve problems, build and maintain databases, and lead Mastercard in database automation and best practices. The ideal candidate is a born problem solver with a low tolerance for manual work, seeking to automate processes wherever possible. They should have experience working in global teams across different geographies and possess an entrepreneurial spirit that embraces critical questioning, innovation, customer service, and continuous improvement. As part of the Technology Operations, the Database Engineering (DE) team supports Mastercard Business Systems and Operations globally. The Senior Oracle DBA will leverage their knowledge and skills to deploy and manage various database technologies in Test and Production environments for global products, including Developer APIs, Digital Checkout, and Card Tokenization. The role requires managing a wide variety of databases, particularly with a strong emphasis on database backup and recovery, performance tuning, and high availability configuration. The candidate should be highly experienced in multiple database technologies, including Oracle, MS-SQL Server, PostgreSQL, DB2, Cassandra, and Redis, and should be forward-thinking with infrastructure automation and scripting skills. The Senior Oracle DBA will also lead in managing client expectations, collaborate with other DBAs, provide direction for database domain strategy, and review new tools and products that assist in providing database support and services.