Manager, Data Platform

Why Verifone

For more than 30 years Verifone has established a remarkable record of leadership in the electronic payment technology industry. Verifone has one of the leading electronic payment solutions brands and is one of the largest providers of electronic payment systems worldwide.

Verifone has a diverse dynamic and fast paced work environment in which employees are focused on results and have opportunities to excel. We take pride in the fact that we work with leading retailers merchants banks and third party partners to invent and deliver innovative payments solution around the world. We strive for excellence in our products and services and are obsessed with customer happiness. Across the globe Verifone employees are leading the payments industry through experience innovation and an ambitious spirit. Whether its developing the next platform of secure payment systems or searching for new ways to bring electronic payments to new markets the team at Verifone is dedicated to the success of our customers partners and investors. It is this passion for innovation that drives each one of our employees for personal and professional success.

What Exciting About the Role:

Verifone is seeking a manager to join our incredible Platform Engineering team. You will manage a team of database specialists responsible for day-to-day operations of our core enterprise data platforms including relational databases NoSQL Redis MongoDB both on prem and AWS cloud services. Youll own reliability performance capacity planning security and compliance for our database estate. Youll build and enforce standards run the on-call program and work closely with application data and security teams. This is a high-impact role requiring deep technical expertise strong leadership and the ability to manage complex mission-critical database environments.

Key Responsibilities:

Database Leadership

• Manage a team of DBAs / Database Engineers / Data Platform Ops (1:1s feedback reviews hiring).
• Prioritize the teams work across incidents requests maintenance and projects
• Run a sustainable on-call rotation with clear escalation paths.
• Enforce good hygiene: ticket quality documentation change control post-incident reviews.
• Develop and execute database strategy aligned with engineering and business objectives.
• Oversee database design deployment and maintenance across multiple environments (development test production).

Performance & Optimization

• Focus on monitoring and database performance to meet demanding application requirements.
• Drive automation to streamline database operations and reduce manual overhead.
• Ensure high availability scalability and disaster recovery for critical systems.

Security & Compliance

• Establish robust security protocols to safeguard sensitive data.
• Ensure compliance with SOX PCI-DSS and other regulatory frameworks.
• Manage audits and risk assessments related to database operations.
• Strong knowledge of database security compliance and performance optimization.

Cross-functional Collaboration

• Work closely with Engineering DevOps and Product teams to support application development and deployment.
• Serve as a trusted advisor on database implications of architectural and design decisions.
• Support integration activities for new platforms tools and services.

Technology & Process Improvement

• Leverage modern database technologies (SQL NoSQL cloud-native solutions) to enhance capabilities.
• Implement best practices for backup recovery and monitoring.
• Drive continuous improvement in database management processes and tools.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field; advanced degree preferred.
• 10 years of progressive database administration/management experience including at least 5 years in a leadership role.
• Deep expertise in relational and non-relational databases and technologies (e.g. Oracle SQL Server PostgreSQL MongoDB Redis Kafka).
• Operational management of on-prem and cloud infrastructure (AWS GCP Azure etc)
• Proven success in managing large-scale mission-critical database environments.
• Experience in technology for fintech industries preferred.
• Exceptional communication problem-solving and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience running Snowflake at scale (multiple warehouses resource monitors role structures cost controls).
• Experience with managed Redis and MongoDB (e.g. AWS ElastiCache Azure Cache MongoDB Atlas).
• Data lake analytics ETL/data pipeline experience
• Familiarity with Kubernetes operators or similar for database-adjacent services.
• Experience in a high-availability or regulated industry (fintech payments healthcare etc.).
• Practical experience with Terraform/Ansible/other IaC for DB and data platform resources.
• DevOps skills (CI/CD pipelines scripting)

Our Commitment:

Verifone is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion gender gender identity or expression sexual orientation national origin genetics disability age or veteran status. Verifone is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.