Sr MTS Architect in Beijing, China at PayPal

Job Description

Job Description

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.
The US Silicon Valley Based Technology team servicing the China Market is looking for a talented, highly motivated, and seasoned architect to join the team. The person will serve as a key technologist in the team responsible for Payment, Risk and Compliance, Settlement, infrastructure and security components. The ideal candidate is a self-starter and self-motivated individual with strong consulting, technology skills, commitment to quality, positive work ethic and a "can do" attitude. In this position, you will architect platforms and make design decisions that impacts millions of merchants and consumers in China and across the global. You will be the go-to person for all back end systems and infrastructure that support Chinese customers. You will closely collaborate with global architecture, infrastructure, program management, engineering and product teams to refine and deliver the strategies and build technical & solution architecture for large initiatives. You will work with partners and conduct technical assessments and impact analysis.

Responsibilities:

• Develop a strong partnership with China and global business, product, and engineering leaders to define business, product, and technology architecture
• Gain a deep understanding of domain and industry best practices to develop technical vision and strategy
• Define and maintain long term architecture (LTA) for China and other geo-locations globally
• Effectively communicate technology strategies and trade-offs both to senior and executive management and to development teams
• Review solution designs to determine their technical viability and their relevance to the business goals
• Responsible for creating simple API’s, easy integration patterns for external services
• Develop and govern repeatable design strategies and patterns to ensure consistent solutions
• Guide engineering teams toward a common methodology
• Work with the engineering team on Proof of Concepts
• Be extended team member to the global enterprise architecture team

Skills Required:

• 10+ years of relevant work experience required
• Fluency in programming languages such as Java, Node, Python
• Expert with frameworks, platform trends in the space of Data and Distributed Systems – Hadoop, Kafka, Spark, Elastic Search, Graph DB, etc.
• Ability to lead various Technology Assessments.
• Broader knowledge of infrastructure and info security
• Familiarity with frameworks such as Spring Boot, Spring Data, and microservices methodology.
• Documenting Solution Design and Architecture
  • Options Analysis and Recommendations with costs/benefits, high-level tradeoffs, constraints, and assumptions
  • Define/Refine Architecture Guidelines and Principles
  • Detailed Designs (RESTful API design)
• Delivering proof of concepts and reference implementations
• Excellent communication skills; verbal, written, and presentation skills and interpersonal skills
• Mentor and direct architects and engineers
• Cross-Functional collaboration with various stakeholders and partners (Business, Product, Engineering, and Architecture)
• Comfortable with context switching and managing across multiple priorities
• Make high-quality decisions with limited information
• Thrive in an environment of constant change
• Be a quick learner undaunted by complex systems. Ability to expand to new domains and be able to pick up and contribute quickly
• Experience in the payments or eCommerce industry
• Prior knowledge of Risk Management and Fraud Detection technologies in the Payments industry a plus
• Prior experience in active-active, multi-AZ, multi-region processing a huge plus
• Mandarin-speaking a plus.
• Travel may be required.

Our Benefits:

At PayPal, we’re committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. And we can’t do this without our most important asset—you. That’s why we offer benefits to help you thrive in every stage of life. We champion your financial, physical, and mental health by offering valuable benefits and resources to help you care for the whole you.

We have great benefits including a flexible work environment, employee shares options, health and life insurance and more. To learn more about our benefits please visit https://www.paypalbenefits.com

Who We Are:

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PayPal has remained at the forefront of the digital payment revolution for more than 20 years. By leveraging technology to make financial services and commerce more convenient, affordable, and secure, the PayPal platform is empowering more than 400 million consumers and merchants in more than 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy. For more information, visit paypal.com.

PayPal provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, PayPal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at [email protected].

As part of PayPal’s commitment to employees’ health and safety, we have established in-office Covid-19 protocols and requirements, based on expert guidance. Depending on location, this might include a Covid-19 vaccination requirement for any employee whose role requires them to work onsite. Employees may request reasonable accommodation based on a medical condition or religious belief that prevents them from being vaccinated.

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