Architect Manager 2

Job Description

Fueled by a fundamental belief that having access to financial services creates opportunity, PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) is committed to democratizing financial services and empowering people and businesses to join and thrive in the global economy. Our open digital payments platform gives PayPal s 305 million active account holders the confidence to connect and transact in new and powerful ways, whether they are online, on a mobile device, in an app, or in person. Through a combination of technological innovation and strategic partnerships, PayPal creates better ways to manage and move money, and offers choice and flexibility when sending payments, paying or getting paid. Available in more than 200 markets around the world, the PayPal platform, including Braintree, Venmo and Xoom enables consumers and merchants to receive money in more than 100 currencies, withdraw funds in 56 currencies and hold balances in their PayPal accounts in 25 currencies.The Architect Manager will be based out of PayPal Chennai office and will support in the development and execution of strategic transformation programs & initiatives, strategic engineering architecture design, resource allocation, and platform performance monitoring. Ideal candidate is a technologist who believes that use of technology is in its infancy and the best is yet to come. The nature of role is strategic, analytical and highly collaborative, working with team members across the World and as a liaison for Global projects.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. Must be able to write quality code and build secure, highly available systems. 50% of the job requires production quality coding.
• Provide technical leadership and contribute to product integration efforts including the definition, development, integration, test, documentation, and support across multiple platforms (Unix, Python, Hadoop, SAP, Teradata)
• 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 from a leading university and preferably with a Masters or MBA
• 12+ years of post-college working experience as a developer and architect in Engineering, or Data-Mining organization
• 5+ years of Hadoop experience is required
• 2+ years of SPARK/HIVE experience is required
• 5+ years of Oracle SQL experience is required
• 5+ years of Linux/Unix/Python coding experience (including scripting) is required
• 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

Keyskills :
oracle sqlcoding experience corporate liaisonproject management financial servicessystematic approach architectural designtechni