Global Head of Database Engineering & Architecture

lwtsquad; O’Fallon (MO); On-site; USD 138,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401k with company match

Paid time off

Tuition reimbursement

Fitness reimbursement

Job summary

Mastercard seeks a Director of Database Engineering to lead global database operations and governance. You will drive architectures, standards, and reliability for critical data stores, ensuring security and performance across on-prem and cloud environments.

The role requires deep database expertise, strong leadership, and collaboration with cross‑functional teams to deliver scalable data solutions for Mastercard’s worldwide operations.

Qualifications

• Strong working knowledge of databases with relevant certifications.
• Good understanding of security standards and best practices.
• In-depth knowledge of database management (Oracle Installation, creation of new instances, space management, database reorganization, backup and recovery, performance monitoring and troubleshooting, bottlenecks).
• Hands-on database tuning and troubleshooting experience.
• Deep knowledge of software development processes including agile processes and test driven development.
• Experience with data analysis.
• Experience in architecture and providing technical leadership to large and complex systems.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent trouble shooting skills.

Responsibilities

• Managing wide variety databases with backup/recovery, performance tuning, and high availability configurations.
• Collaborate with service delivery DBAs and application development teams to develop database architectures and standards.
• Create models for new database development or changes to existing ones.
• Respond to and resolve database access and performance issues.
• Monitor database details including procedures and execution time; implement efficiency improvements.
• Design and implement disaster recovery and data archiving policies for data integrity.
• Plan and coordinate data migrations between systems.
• Develop, implement, and maintain change control and testing processes for DB changes.
• Familiarity with Oracle, MS-SQL Server, PostgreSQL, DB2, MongoDB, Redis in on-prem and cloud environments.

Skills

Database expertise

Security standards

Data analysis

Technical leadership

Troubleshooting

Tools

Oracle

MS-SQL Server

PostgreSQL

DB2

MongoDB

Redis

Job description

Mastercard seeks a Director of Database Engineering to lead global database operations and governance. You will drive architectures, standards, and reliability for critical data stores, ensuring security and performance across on-prem and cloud environments.

The role requires deep database expertise, strong leadership, and collaboration with cross‑functional teams to deliver scalable data solutions for Mastercard’s worldwide operations.