Principal Member of Technical Staff Job Listing at eBay in San Jose, CA

Computer Software, Financial Services

Are you the strategist that can drive innovation, engage consumers and help retailers of all sizes compete and win?
Can you lead architecture teams as they define the technology standards that meet the needs of a global community of over 100 million active members?
If so, then come make a name for yourself with the leaders in secure commerce – join the architects defining the future of money!
Working at PayPal means that you are an important part of a global commerce and payments leader that’s shaping the future of how people shop and pay. Every day we connect hundreds of millions of people around the world empowering them to explore new opportunities and innovate together by providing the Internet platforms of choice for global commerce, payments and communications. We are helping consumers shop anytime, anywhere, any way. Few companies are in the same position as PayPal, poised to enable commerce and reinvent how people shop and pay. Even fewer can deliver on this promise and help change the world.

Responsibilities:
·Leading the creation of large-scale architectures for a significant product area or across multiple large PayPal systems.

·Design and oversee solutions for specific use cases that provide frameworks, interfaces and services that can be extended and reused for future requirements.

·Understand the broader business context around their area and develop architecture and influence implementation to support it.

·Create complex architectural designs that are typically exemplars and require only minor refinement.

·Proactively identifies additional requirements that can benefit the proposed solution and works with other architects and engineers to design robust, generalized capabilities.

·Develop and communicate technical processes, standards, and best practices within a business unit.

·Drive development of enterprise architecture standards, guidelines and principles, and work with architects and engineers to ensure implementations and architectures are consistent with the spirit of these principles.

·Recognized as the go-to architect for a major product or multiple related products and is seen as a leader within their business unit.

·Leads product design and code reviews; can competently review any aspect of their product or major sub-system.

·Leads and collaborates on solutions across teams within a Business Unit.
Job Function: Tech - Architecture