Working within the PayPal Data Management organization, this individual is required to demonstrate technical architectural leadership, playing a vital role in the design of eBay/PayPal data management systems. The candidate must be able to think independently; and analyze, troubleshoot and resolve complex business and technical problems. The candidate will provide direct support to the PayPal Technology Executive Management team on vision, strategy and governance for data management at PayPal.

•Define, communicate, influence and maintain the long-term strategic data management architecture for PayPal.
•Work closely with application and solution architects to design data services that are scalable, reliable and highly available to PayPal’s customers and internal business users.
•Partner with Corporate and Global Security, Trust and Safety and other eBay entities for corporate architecture solutions that meet or exceed PayPal’s information security and compliance obligations.
•Translate technical concepts into costs and risks to the business and adjust technology strategy and tactical efforts to meet PayPal’s corporate objectives.
•Define and develop data standards, procedures, guidelines, policies and lifecycles that meet PayPal’s strategic information requirements.
•Develop and interpret key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the effectiveness of data management processes.
•Drive or consult on new technology evaluations that evolve PayPal’s ability to transform data into information and insight.
•Mentor and help to develop data management talent.
•Help build and evolve PayPal’s data architecture into a world class, cost-effective enterprise data management system.
•Very strong leadership skills with the ability to influence at all levels of the organization.
•Ability to clearly articulate business and technical issues with senior management, peers, and outside
•Current knowledge and experience of industry trends and technology advancements in data management.
•Solid understanding of ETL architectures, data movement technologies and business information systems.
•Must have developed and enforced data standards in a previous experience.
•Strong knowledge of logical and physical data modeling for OLTP, DSS and DW data management systems.
•Expertise with at least one enterprise level data modeling tool such as ERwin, ER/Studio or PowerDesigner.
•Demonstrable analytical and problem solving skills, particularly as it relates to data modeling and enterprise data architecture.
•Experience designing for large scale, highly available, fault tolerant data management systems in a dynamic environment.
•Ability to quickly learn and comprehend existing complex systems infrastructures.
•Familiarity with Oracle, Informatica, Ab Initio and Teradata is desired.
•Knowledge and experience using eBay's websites strongly preferred.
•Bachelors degree plus 12+ years of professional related experience

Salary commensurate with experience