Senior Data Engineer

We are seeking a talented Data Engineer to join our Accounting and Regulatory Platform Engineering Team within the Data Organization of PayPal. The candidate will be responsible for analysis, design, coding, and testing of the Data applications and ETL Engineering. The candidate may have to interact with global cross-functional teams to address complex business requirements. The role demands the individual to the technical skills required to perform the job in an effective manner. The individual should be self-motivated, possess creative problem-solving skills and should be able to handle multiple projects at the same time. The candidate should have passion for data & analytics.

Meet our team
Accounting and Regulatory Platform is part of DAiS - Data Foundational Services, a centralized platform system for providing all financial KPIs, Accounting and Regulatory data needs, Reporting and Recon platforms, Ledger Maintenance, catering data analytics for different groups within PayPal including SLT.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and deliver scalable solutions.
• Define, architect, and manage the full lifecycle of data products.
• Employ creative thinking and innovative approaches to problem-solving.
• Proactively identify potential issues and communicate them effectively to both the team and management.
• Thrive in a fast-paced environment, adapting quickly to ambiguous problem statements.
• Deliver high-quality results from initial concepts.

• 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. Must be able to write quality code and build secure, highly available systems. 80% of the job requires production quality coding.
• Provide technical leadership and contribute to the definition, development, integration, test, documentation, and support across multiple platforms (GCP, Hadoop, Unix, Python, SAP, Integration with other cloud platforms)
• Hands on experience in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning models.
• 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
• Eat, sleep, and breathe services. Experienced in balancing production platform stability, feature delivery, and retirement of technical debt across a broad landscape of technologies

• Undergraduate degree in Computer Engineering or equivalent
• Prefer skills in Banking and Payment Industry
• Prefer skills in GCP,Hadoop and SAP Application
• Good understanding of Global Regulation, Ledger, Subledger and Finance Application
• 4+ years of post-college working experience as a developer and architect in Engineering, or Data-Mining organization
• 2+ years of Hadoop experience is required