Director- Database Engineering – Distributed SQL, MySQL and Graph DB

Visa’s Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce. We operate the world’s most sophisticated processing networks capable of handling more than 65k secure transactions a second across 80M merchants, 15k Financial Institutions, and billions of everyday people. While working with us you’ll get to work on complex distributed systems and solve massive scale problems centered on new payment flows, business and data solutions, cyber security, and B2C platforms.

The Opportunity:

As Director in Database Engineering team, you will be leading a highly talented team of Database Engineers specializing in MySQL, Distributed SQL and Graph DB database technologies.
Database Engineering team is part of the Platform as a Service (PaaS) group under Operations and Infrastructure (OI) division, which delivers operationally excellent open system database infrastructure and services both on premise (private cloud) and in public cloud. We design, engineer and build reliable, scalable, secure, highly available and cost-effective database infrastructure solutions for our product development partners. The team also provides Level-3 database support for any operational issues and serves as the next level escalation for Database Reliability Engineering team.

The Work itself:

The work involves leading teams adhering to Visa’s leadership principles of leading courageously, obsessing about our customers, collaborating with other teams, and excelling in execution.
As technology owner of multiple database technologies, you will also be responsible to strategize, advance, and engineer enterprise database platform solutions for automated build and patching and efficient administration that meet security, availability, performance, fast delivery and reporting requirements, and to support projects and products using these technologies.
This role is expected to collaborate closely with Product development and other partners in Operations and Infrastructure like Compute, Storage, Network and Middleware Engineering teams. There will be significant integration with our CyberSecurity services, requiring close partnership with them.

Essential Functions:

• Lead a global team of Database Engineers specializing in MySQL, Distributed SQL (e.g. StarRocks) and Graph DB (e.g. Neo4J) database technologies
• Provides strategic vision for offering cost effective database solutions, optimizing database footprint and enabling product development teams with faster access to database services
• Lead technical discussions and communicate regularly with senior leadership on technical issues, program status, and escalations
• Act as a technical liaison between database vendors and various teams within Visa e.g. product development, database reliability engineering
• Provides framework and expertise for presenting technical solutions, capabilities, and features to stakeholders demonstrating how solutions will support business strategy
• Work closely with cross-functional groups including product development, other Infrastructure engineering teams, Cybersecurity and Operations
• Mentor team members in skill development and career growth. Motivate them to push the boundaries and challenge status quo
• Foster a team culture of trust, collaboration, accountability and integrity
• Lead by example, demonstrating accountability, and by contributing to departmental procedures, best practices, and standards

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.