MTS 1, Data Engineer

MTS 1 Data Engineer will directly support the 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 the role is strategic, analytical, and highly collaborative, working with team members across World and also 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 PayPal values.
• Build scalable systems on Hadoop, Google Cloud Platform, and SAP HANA Ecosystems, lead technical discussions, participate in code reviews, and guide the team in engineering best practices. Must be able to write quality code and build secure, highly available systems. 75% of the job requires production quality coding.
• Provide technical leadership and contribute to the definition, development, integration, test, documentation, and support across multiple platforms (Unix, Python, GCP, Hadoop, SAP HANA, 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), including 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

Qualifications: 

• Undergraduate degree in Computer Engineering or equivalent from a leading university and preferably with a master’s or MBA
• 8+ years of post-college working experience as a developer and architect in an Engineering, or Data-Mining organization
• 8+ years of DBMS and 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 detail
• Experience leading teams in a global complex matrix organization involving multiple reporting lines

Position specific Skills

• 5+ years of experience working on Hadoop
• 2+ years of experience working on GCP
• 2+ years of experience working on SPARK
• 2+ years of experience working on SAP HANA