Data Architect

**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**:
Meet our team : PayPal Data Architecture team is on a mission to build a robust and scalable data platform that empowers our customers. We're looking for a passionate Data Architect to join us in designing and implementing secure, high-performing data solutions that leverage a variety of technologies.

What you need to know about the role:

- In this role, you'll be a trusted advisor to various PayPal business units, partnering with their product engineering teams to architect data solutions that fuel high-priority initiatives. You'll be embedded with these teams, playing a key role throughout the entire data lifecycle.

Your day to day:

- Develop and implement a long-term data strategy aligned with business objectives, focusing on event-driven architectures and real-time analytics.
- Demonstrate deep expertise in Kappa and Lambda architectures, data modeling, domain-driven design, CQRS, and stream processing frameworks.
- Address complex data challenges, such as large-scale data integration, real-time analytics, and data governance.
- Design and model data structures, schemas, and relationships to optimize performance and scalability.
- Collaborate with development teams to ensure seamless integration of data models and architectures.
- Mentor and guide junior data professionals, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence.
- Stay updated on emerging technologies and evaluate their suitability for our organization.

Your way to impact:

- Hybrid Data Architecture Expertise. Craft solutions that seamlessly integrate on-premises, cloud-based, and hybrid data storage options, ensuring optimal data management across the organization.

Compliance & Governance. Ensure your data architectures and designs adhere to PayPal's specific enterprise data architecture standards for each data store type.

Data Access Pattern & Structure Design. Design data structures and access patterns that meet both functional and non-functional requirements.
- Functional. Align with the specific business needs of the project.
- Non-Functional. Prioritize security, availability, performance, scalability to create a robust and user-friendly data platform.

As a Customer Champion, you'll collaborate with domain architects to identify opportunities for data platform improvements.
- Data Security. Enhance data security posture by minimizing risks and vulnerabilities.
- Fault Tolerance. Design data solutions to be highly available and resilient to failures.
- Scalability. Ensure solutions can accommodate future growth.
- Query Performance. Optimize data structures and access patterns for faster queries, ultimately improving the customer experience.
- Drive Improvement Implementation. Not only identify improvement opportunities but also a