Tech Infra Lead Architect jobs at Paypal in United States, Scottsdale

Job Description:

Job Duties: Develop a product roadmap for 3-5 Product Portfolios and work with cross-functional teams (Accounting, Accounting Policy Group, Program managers, product, development/FADS, analytics, and UX) to execute the roadmap. Design and direct mitigation strategies impacting product launch timelines. Utilize experience with product management, product road map creation, requirement gathering, defining product vision, execution of road map, execution of product strategy, and carrying out product launches. Establish an effective communication plan between team leads to maintain alignment with the project roadmap and timeline of deliverables. Assign individual and team daily work schedules, reviewing and modifying as needed to ensure compliance with technology budget and personnel requirements. Guide a highly collaborative, cross-functional team to ensure the accurate and efficient collection and analysis of accounting and product requirements. Serve as a liaison between GCP, External banks, Treasury, ARP, Accounting, Disputes, Accounting policy, Risk, Operational reporting, regulatory reporting, AFI BA, Recon, ECC, and Corrections team to gather requirements and assess impact. Manage discussions within BRDs (Business Requirement Documents) that document Product Descriptions, Reconciliation approaches, bank accounts, and GL (if needed). Communicate BRD results with all the impacted teams and ensure that teams are equipped with all inputs to design the right products. Direct data testing sequences when planning a product BRD to align with upstream partner teams. Execute user acceptance tests on accounting-based software. Apply accounting experience with T-accounts, cash settlement, and SAP FPSL (Financial Product Sub-ledger)/SAP ECC/SAP MMT Fiori. Partial telecommuting permitted from within a commutable distance.

Minimum Requirements: Master’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a closely related field plus three years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation.

Special Skill Requirements:

1. 3 years of experience with JIRA to understand the software development life cycle of a product and to define requirement for BRD.

2. 3 years of experience writing and executing SQL queries for data extraction, analysis and derive results based on that analysis.

3. 3 years of experience in business analysis, competitor analysis, and requirement encapsulation.

4. 2 Years of experience working in Payments processing for software product build.

5. 2 Years of experience working in Agile Methodology to design and build Software products in iterative approach.

6. 2 years of experience with process designing tools like Figma or MS Visio to capture the process flow and business cases for software product build.

7. 2 years of experience in creating the page template on confluence so that documents can have a combination of free text field, table structure, and be able to capture multiple options.

8. 2 years of experience working with cross functional teams to conduct user acceptance test and facilitate sign off.

Preferred Qualification:

Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.

Our Benefits:

Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please

Strategy & Planning

• Define and maintain the Long-Term Architecture (LTA) in alignment with Enterprise Architecture.
• Ensure strategic and roadmap alignment across Tech Infrastructure domains, including SRE, DPE, Infra, Cloud, and China.
• Manage technical debt and system evolution strategies, ensuring long-term sustainability and efficiency.
• Evaluate and guide technology investment decisions, favoring industry-standard solutions (COTS/open-source) over bespoke development.
• Partner with leadership to influence organizational structure and execution strategy, applying Conway’s Law to optimize system design and team alignment.

Technical Architecture

• Ensure technical representation and alignment of Tech Infrastructure domain(s) with Enterprise Architecture.
• Develop and maintain architectural blueprints, standards, and system interaction patterns.
• Design and validate scalable integration patterns between different systems.
• Lead the design and evaluation of major architectural investments, such as service mesh implementations.
• Ensure that all architectural designs prioritize reliability, scalability, maintainability, observability, monitoring, and security.

Technical Leadership

• Lead/Contribute to the Infrastructure Architecture Forum to review and approve High-Level Designs (HLDs) and Architectural Decision Records (ADRs).
• Provide technical leadership for strategic, cross-functional programs.
• Support senior leaders in the organization in solving complex challenges process, people, technology challenges.
• Participate in post mortem Root Cause Analyses (RCAs) and ensure corrective actions are holistic, addressing actual root causes while feeding insights into the LTA.
• Facilitate cross-functional collaboration across teams to drive efficiency and prevent duplicate efforts.
• Mentor teams on architectural principles and best practices, ensuring a strong engineering culture.
• Translate complex technical concepts into clear, actionable insights for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in development, infrastructure, or cloud architecture roles.
• Strong understanding of systems design, enterprise architecture, distributed systems, and large-scale infrastructure.
• Experience with modern cloud-native architectures, and scalable integration patterns.
• Ability to drive technical strategy, governance, and architectural decision-making.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, especially in high-availability and mission-critical environments.
• Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management abilities.
• Experience with incident management, RCA processes, and technical debt management.

Travel Percent:

The total compensation for this practice may include an annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits. For more information, visit .

The U.S. national annual pay range for this role is

Our Benefits:

Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please

• Define and maintain the Long-Term Architecture (LTA) in alignment with Enterprise Architecture.
• Ensure strategic and roadmap alignment across Tech Infrastructure domains, including SRE, DPE, Infra, Cloud, and China .
• Manage technical debt and system evolution strategies, ensuring long-term sustainability and efficiency.
• Evaluate and guide technology investment decisions , favoring industry-standard solutions (COTS/open-source) over bespoke development.
• Partner with leadership to influence organizational structure and execution strategy , applying Conway’s Law to optimize system design and team alignment.

• Ensure technical representation and alignment of Tech Infrastructure domain(s) with Enterprise Architecture.
• Develop and maintain architectural blueprints, standards, and system interaction patterns .
• Design and validate scalable integration patterns between different systems.
• Lead the design and evaluation of major architectural investments , such as service mesh implementations .
• Ensure that all architectural designs prioritize reliability, scalability, maintainability, observability, monitoring, and security .
  

• Lead/contribute to the Infrastructure Architecture Forum to review and approve High-Level Designs (HLDs) and Architectural Decision Records (ADRs) .
• Provide technical leadership for strategic, cross-functional programs.
• Support senior leaders in the organization in solving complex challenges process, people, technology challenges.
• Participate in post mortem Root Cause Analyses (RCAs) and ensure corrective actions are holistic, addressing actual root causes while feeding insights into the LTA .
• Facilitate cross-functional collaboration across teams to drive efficiency and prevent duplicate efforts.
• Mentor teams on architectural principles and best practices , ensuring a strong engineering culture .
• Translate complex technical concepts into clear, actionable insights for both technical and non-technical stakeholders .
  

• 10+ years of experience in software development, infrastructure, or cloud architecture roles.
• Strong understanding of systems design, enterprise architecture, distributed systems, and large-scale infrastructure .
• Experience with modern cloud-native architectures , and scalable integration patterns.
• Ability to drive technical strategy, governance, and architectural decision-making .
• Excellent problem-solving skills, especially in high-availability and mission-critical environments .
• Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management abilities.
• Experience with incident management, RCA processes, and technical debt management .

Travel Percent:

The total compensation for this practice may include an annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits. For more information, visit .

The U.S. national annual pay range for this role is

Our Benefits:

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Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please.