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 Lead Platform Engineer (Database, Cloud & DevOps) Overview Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in over 200 countries and territories worldwide. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. The Database & Platform Engineering team is responsible for building and operating secure, scalable, highly available, and automated database platforms that support Mastercard's mission-critical payment systems. We are seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to drive the engineering, automation, reliability, and operational excellence of Oracle and PostgreSQL platforms across on-premises and AWS cloud environments. This role combines deep database expertise, cloud engineering, DevOps automation, and technical leadership to deliver resilient platforms that enable Mastercard's next generation of payment solutions. Role As a Lead Platform Engineer, you will: Lead the design, build, automation, and support of Oracle and PostgreSQL database platforms. Engineer highly available and resilient solutions using Oracle RAC, Data Guard, GoldenGate, PostgreSQL Replication, and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. Drive AWS cloud adoption and modernization initiatives across database and infrastructure platforms. Develop Infrastructure-as-Code and automation solutions to improve provisioning, deployment, patching, monitoring, and recovery processes. Implement and enhance CI/CD pipelines to accelerate delivery while maintaining security and compliance. Partner with Software Engineering, SRE, Security, and Product teams to deliver reliable and scalable services. Lead performance optimization, capacity planning, observability, disaster recovery, and operational excellence initiatives. Provide technical leadership during major incidents, root cause analysis, and platform improvement activities. Mentor engineers and champion engineering best practices, automation, and continuous improvement. All About You Extensive hands-on experience with Oracle Database administration and engineering, including RAC, ASM, RMAN, Data Guard, and GoldenGate. Strong expertise in PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, including performance tuning, replication, backup, recovery, and high availability. Experience designing and supporting large-scale production platforms in AWS, including Aurora, RDS, EC2, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, and S3. Strong DevOps and automation experience using Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, or similar technologies. Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, Shell, Bash, or PowerShell. Experience implementing monitoring and observability solutions such as OEM, Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk, or CloudWatch. Strong understanding of database security, operational resilience, disaster recovery, and compliance requirements. Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and stakeholder management skills. Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on technical execution in a fast-paced environment. Preferred Qualifications Experience within financial services, payments, or other high-volume transaction processing environments. Knowledge of Kubernetes, OpenShift, Do