SD Post-processing Payments Platform

At PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL), we believe that every person has the right to participate fully in the global economy. Our mission is to democratize financial services to ensure that everyone, regardless of background or economic standing, has access to affordable, convenient, and secure products and services to take control of their financial lives.

Job Description Summary: The Payments Engineering organization builds and maintains the highly scalable, available, secure, and compliant payments platform of PayPal. This platform helps PayPal’s consumers and merchants to move and manage their money efficiently. The Post-Processing Payments Platform is part of the Payments Engineering organization and works in tandem with the Realtime Payments Processing platform and various other upstream and downstream systems within and outside of PayPal. The mission of this team is to build a scalable, performant, cloud-aware post-processing payments platforms such as clearing, settlement, cost and data platforms which enables straight-through processing for all tenants and all instruments at an optimized and transparent processing cost. About the Role This role is to lead the Post-Processing Payments Platform engineering team. The expectation of this engineering leader for this role is to own all business outcomes enabled by the platform and deliver a world class payments settlement system.

**Job Description**:
an “industry leader” who has a keen eye for the developments in the market and competition and help cultivate long-term competitive advantage for the organization. a “seasoned technologist” with strong experience in building large-scale distributed transaction processing systems and solving complex engineering problems. a “customer champion” who has a flair for building products that delight customers and grow business presence. a “people leader” who has keen inclination to attract, groom and develop a talented and engaged team by imbibing PayPal’s cultural value pillars - Innovation, Collaboration, Inclusion and Wellness. a “collaborative partner” willing to build trusts, relationships, and networks across the organization to help meet business goals.

**Organization Span**
- Lead a 120-member engineering team situated across India, Singapore, and US.
- Member of the payments engineering staff who help define the organizational culture, talent strategy and operational excellence charter of the Payments Engineering Team.
- An active participant within the India site leadership team to help shape the culture of the sites in India.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Vision and Goal Orientation_
- Build and own the Post-Processing Payments platform’s long-term vision.
- Define, track, and deliver quarterly and annual goals of the platform and Objectives and Key Responsibilities (OKRs).
- Deliver key platform goals such as scalability, availability, performance, quality, cost transparency and transaction expense savings.
- Formulate and own the data and AI/ML charter for the post-processing functions.
- Define, own, and deliver to the cloud adoption journey for the organization.
- Relationship Span_
- Partner with key stakeholders across engineering teams within PayPal, with product owners, analytics teams, and business stakeholders.
- Build a strong network with peers and other senior leaders within the company to help further the platform vision.
- Collaborate with core platform and infrastructure leadership team to address the infrastructure needs for payments solutions.
- Periodically travel within and outside India (Singapore & U.S.) to influence stakeholders and build relationships.
- Engineering Discipline_
- Understand the payments business and how technology decisions impact the business.
- Be a hands-on engineering leader, who can help the team with design and architectural tradeoffs, as well as setting up strong quality and operational excellence standards.
- Proven experience in both real time online transaction processing systems as well as non-real time asynchronous processing.
- Proven experience working with large scale database management systems and experience working with various database technologies.
- Ensure the timely delivery of engineering initiatives to create desired value.
- Team Management and Culture_
- Build, nurture, and grow the engineering team to deliver relevant features and capabilities, while helping them growth their career at PayPal.
- Be constantly involved in the growth of team members and provide regular and constructive feedback and coaching as needed. Handle performance management, hiring and talent development processes.
- Own and track organizational budget across various categories such as employee costs, infrastructure costs, cap-credit, employee engagement, travel etc.
- Enable the team for success by focusing on diversity, inclusion, collaboration, and customer centric mindset.

**Leadership Traits**
- Embrace PayPal’s leadership principles and be an i