Staff Database Engineer

Staff Database Engineer ( 8Yrs + , SQL Server , Database )

Visa Value Added Services Product Development (VAS PD) team is seeking a Staff Database Engineer to lead a world-class team of software and database engineers to deliver client-ready solutions by building the next generation of systems, automation and tools to support overall productivity and developer efficiencies. You will provide strategy, vision and technical leadership to the product development teams across Visa to ensure engineering teams are building DB products that use a foundational approach that prioritizes high availability and security.

As part of VAS RAIS PD team, you will work on enabling multiple technology teams that work on payment transaction processing , You will be responsible for mentoring top database engineering talent, keeping the team highly engaged and motivated while delivering exceptional results. Your ability to work across functions and teams will allow you to drive results and foster the right culture and environment to achieve Engineering Excellence and Innovation. You will be responsible for working with product development, quality engineering, security engineering, enterprise operations and other internal and external technology partners to deliver products for business integration & enablement.

Essential Functions:

• Support Database Engineering in the architecture, development and employment of Oracle and MS SQL Database on LUW in high SLA environments.
• Solid understanding on data model and ability to provide logical and physical design for the given business requirements.
• Design scalable database solution for Very Large Database (VLDB).
• Support the migration initiative of Oracle to SQL Server.
• Implementation of active-active configuration at the database layer.
• Engage in proof of concepts on new SQL Server features and advocate the business benefits to the leadership team.
• Provide database engineering for off the shelf and external merchant facing applications.
• Implementation of databases, storage structures, high-availability solutions, replication, encryption, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Follow the industry best practice in writing TSQL and PL/SQL code and unit test cases.
• Mentor junior resources provide necessary guidance and perform code reviews.
• Proactive performance analysis, troubleshooting and resolution of database issues.
• Work very closely with the application team and DBA team to ensure delivery of database services within the SLAs and performance target set.
• Support P1/P2 database issues which impacts the customer applications.
• Manage, support and maintain database technology and infrastructure, adhering to the architectural guidelines and policies.
• Address vulnerabilities and TSR findings reported by the DBA team.
• Ability to work well as a team and as an individual with minimal supervision.

Basic Qualifications
5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8+ years of relevant work e