Director, Data Engineering 1

The Company

PayPal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years. Creating innovative experiences that make moving money, selling, and shopping simple, personalized, and secure, PayPal empowers consumers and businesses in approximately 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy. 

We operate a global, two-sided network at scale that connects hundreds of millions of merchants and consumers. We help merchants and consumers connect, transact, and complete payments, whether they are online or in person. PayPal is more than a connection to third-party payment networks. We provide proprietary payment solutions accepted by merchants that enable the completion of payments on our platform on behalf of our customers.

We offer our customers the flexibility to use their accounts to purchase and receive payments for goods and services, as well as the ability to transfer and withdraw funds. We enable consumers to exchange funds more safely with merchants using a variety of funding sources, which may include a bank account, a PayPal or Venmo account balance, PayPal and Venmo branded credit products, a credit card, a debit card, certain cryptocurrencies, or other stored value products such as gift cards, and eligible credit card rewards.  Our PayPal, Venmo, and Xoom products also make it safer and simpler for friends and family to transfer funds to each other. We offer merchants an end-to-end payments solution that provides authorization and settlement capabilities, as well as instant access to funds and payouts. We also help merchants connect with their customers, process exchanges and returns, and manage risk. We enable consumers to engage in cross-border shopping and merchants to extend their global reach while reducing the complexity and friction involved in enabling cross-border trade. 

Our beliefs are the foundation for how we conduct business every day.  We live each day guided by our core values of Inclusion, Innovation, Collaboration, and Wellness. Together, our values ensure that we work together as one global team with our customers at the center of everything we do – and they push us to ensure we take care of ourselves, each other, and our communities.

Job Description Summary:

The Director – Data Engineering will directly report to and support Sr Director of Finance Technologies in the development and execution of strategic transformation programs & initiatives, strategic engineering architecture design, resource allocation, and platform performance monitoring. The nature of role is strategic, analytical and highly collaborative, working with team members across World and also as a liaison for Global projects.

Job Description:

Responsibilities:

• Lead, develop, and grow a high performance, multi-function team of talented and passionate professionals, who are results driven to take the business forward and demonstrate superior leadership in line with the PayPal values.
• Build scalable systems, lead technical discussions, participate in code reviews, guide the team in engineering best practices.
• Provide technical leadership and contribute to the definition, development, integration, test, documentation, and support across multiple technologies and platforms (Unix, Python, Hadoop, Teradata, GCP)
• Ensure Developer Productivity, Platform observability, business process automations for the Finance Data Platform.
• Identify and implement cutting edge technologies such as AI, ML, GenAI, LLM in relevant use-cases in order to simplify and enhance the data platform.
• Highly detailed with a systematic approach, sense of responsibility and strong, positive customer focus.  Must be results focused and highly energetic to drive the defined team and organizational goals
• Establish a consistent, project management framework and development processes to deliver high quality software, in rapid iterations, for business partners in multiple geographies
• Manage a team that designs, develops, troubleshoots and debugs software programs for databases, applications, tools, networks etc.
• Must have demonstrably strong interpersonal and communication skills (both written and verbal), to include speaking clearly and persuasively in positive or negative situations
• Effectively lead teams by providing appropriate direction and developmental feedback, conducting annual reviews and participating in compensation decisions
• Set Development Goals and OKRs to track performance and delivery for a high functioning Data team.
• Lead a team of over 50 Full-Time employees and manage development contracts with vendor teams.
• Experienced in balancing production platform stability, feature delivery, and retirement of technical debt across a broad landscape of technologies

Qualifications: 

• Strong conceptual and creative problem-solving skills; ability to work with considerable ambiguity; ability to learn new and complex concepts quickly. Relentlessly resourceful and scrappy
• A great communicator, strong project management skills, and superb attention to details
• Experience leading teams in a global complex matrix organization involving multiple reporting lines
• Post Graduate Degree in Computer Engineering or equivalent from a leading university.
• MBA in Finance / Technology Management and/or Equivalent experience in relevant domains is a must.
• Advanced skills in Banking and Payment Industry
• Experience in delivering Finance Data projects and solutions in Big Data, Hadoop and GCP Ecosystems.
• Be a strong engineering domain expert with extensive knowledge on Finance Data, Regulatory Reporting, Accounting Systems, FDIC Reporting, Payment Networks, Processors, Acquirers, SOX Certifications etc.
• 10+ years of post-college working experience as a developer and architect in Engineering, or Data-Mining organization
• 5+ years of Hadoop experience is required
• Experience implementing GenAI models in data specific use-cases. Familiarity with Large Language Models and leveraging them for data and reporting usecases.
• Prior experience in Finance applications is an advantage.

Additional Job Description:

Subsidiary:

PayPal

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For the majority of employees, PayPal's balanced hybrid work model offers 3 days in the office for effective in-person collaboration and 2 days at your choice of either the PayPal office or your home workspace, ensuring that you equally have the benefits and conveniences of both locations.

Our Benefits:

At PayPal, we’re committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. And we can’t do this without our most important asset—you. That’s why we offer benefits to help you thrive in every stage of life. We champion your financial, physical, and mental health by offering valuable benefits and resources to help you care for the whole you.

We have great benefits including a flexible work environment, employee shares options, health and life insurance and more. To learn more about our benefits please visit https://www.paypalbenefits.com.

Who We Are:

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Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion 

PayPal provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.  In addition, PayPal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.  If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at talentaccommodations@paypal.com.  

Belonging at PayPal: 

Our employees are central to advancing our mission, and we strive to create an environment where everyone can do their best work with a sense of purpose and belonging. Belonging at PayPal means creating a workplace with a sense of acceptance and security where all employees feel included and valued. We are proud to have a diverse workforce reflective of the merchants, consumers, and communities that we serve, and we continue to take tangible actions to cultivate inclusivity and belonging at PayPal.

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