Staff Database Engineer

Company Description
Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses and economies to thrive.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging - where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world - helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.
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**Job Description**:
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Primarily the architecture, engineering, deployment and support of NoSQL database technology.

Support Database Platform Engineering in the architecture, development and deployment of NoSQL technologies like Open source Cassandra, DataStax Cassandra and/or MongoDB/any other NoSQL Technologies in high SLA environments. Support of RDBMS technology will be a plus. This includes, but is not limited to, advanced to expert engineering and implementation of the following:

- Manage, support and maintain database technology and infrastructure, adhering to the architectural guidelines and policies.
- Install, configure, monitor, upgrade and maintain MongoDB and Cassandra databases in production and non-production environments.
- Participate in Database Maintenance and DR activities.
- Provide technical expertise and hands-on support in consolidation and migration of databases to new hardware and platforms.
- Physical implementation of databases, storage structures, high-availability solutions, replication, and disaster recovery solutions.
- Proactive and reactive performance analysis, monitoring, troubleshooting and resolution of escalated Level 2 and Level3 issues.
- Regular database capacity planning related to database growth and system utilization, trend analysis, predictive future database resource requirements, and the structured organized reporting of the same.
- Work closely with other Infrastructure engineering, product development, business operations, and technical operations to ensure delivery of database services within the SLA’s and performance targets.
- Adapt business requirements, model data, and develop database specifications, table and element attributes.
- Participate in the evaluation, selection and implementation of DBA tools to improve the effectiveness of tasks such as performance monitoring and tuning, recovery, and database change management processing.
- Ability to work well as a team and as an individual with mínimal supervision.

Qualifications**
Basic Qualifications**:

- 4 years of 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 degree
**Preferred Qualifications**:

- 7-10 years of work experience and a Bachelor’s Degree or 6 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 years of experience with a PhD.Bachelors/Degree in Computer Science or other technology field is necessary.
- 5-7 years of DBA experience, with Apache Cassandra and DataStax Cassandra, and additionally MongoDB, Redis, Couch DB will be a plus.
- Sound knowledge of all UNIX and Cassandra/NoSQL utilities. Troubleshoot database production problems and database connectivity issues.
- Strong knowledge of operating systems, scripting languages, data modeling and business intelligence tools.
- Good interpersonal skills along with effective communication (both written and verbal) skills.
- Demonstrated ability to solve complex systems and database environment issues.
- Demonstrate ability to work in a complex organization to determine business and customer needs, providing the best solution to meet those needs.
- Work experience in a Financial Institute will be preferred.

Additional Information**
Work Hours **This position requires the incumbent to be available during core business hours.
**Travel Requirements **This position requires the incumbent to travel for work less than 10% of the time.
**Mental/Physical Requirements **This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers, reach with hands and arms, and bend or lift up to 25 pounds.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.