Data Scientist 2 - Vancouver, Canada - PayPal

PayPal

Verified Company

Vancouver, Canada

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Sophia Lee

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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.

Job Description:

Responsibilities:

Facilitate, gather, and synthesize business requirements for multiple, simultaneous projects directly with key business partners, stakeholders and end users.
Analyze and translate high level business requirements to functional and technical specifications to create requirement documents and traceability matrix
Identify key deliverables, prioritize task in product roadmap, resolve issues and bridge gaps and groom product backlog and user stories.
Ability to understand business objectives and priorities to design and develop customer centric solution recommendations.
Develop, maintain, and manage advanced reports, dashboards, and other BI solutions to track progress of the business and its highest priority initiatives using tools like Tableau, Power-BI.
A solid understanding of SQL and relational database to write complex SQL queries to test reports as part of backend testing. Design, implement and tune MySQL views and stored procedures
Implement customized ETL pipelines using Python scripts and SQL to pull data from diverse sources for higher data availability and to create a unified view of quality data for analytics and reporting.
Drive data logging requirements to measure KPI's by engaging with analysts, business stakeholders, data architects, technology leads, and product development team.
Identify key metrics, conduct rigorous explorative data analysis, create executive facing dashboards and build business cases that drive decision making and business prioritization.
Build, debug, monitor and troubleshoot databases and ETL processes to ensure optimal performance, reliability and integrity
Recognize and adopt best practices in reporting and analysis: data integrity, test design, analysis, validation and documentation
Conducting unit tests and developing database queries to analyze the effects and troubleshoot any issues.
Demonstrated experience managing pressure and meeting deadlines in a fastpaced environment.

Requirements:

Experience designing in Tableau, Power BI or similar data visualization tools is strongly recommended
Degree in Mathematics, Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, or related field.
Proven ability of looking at solutions in unconventional ways

- seeing opportunities to innovate and leading the way

Proficiency in using SQL for extraction and transformation of large data sets.
Experience in database schema design preferred.
Experience with scripting language like Python preferred
Competency in Excel (macros, pivot tables, etc.)
Extensive experience in developing, maintaining and managing Tableau driven dashboards & analytics.
Experience with Power Query, Power Pivot, SQL, Power BI a plus
Minimum Experience: Bachelor's degree and 57 years of directly applicable experience; Master's degree and 45 years' experience preferred.

Additional Skills:

Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Selfstarter demonstrates independence, initiative and followthrough. Delivers on time while meeting quality objectives and customer expectations
Work across the company to drive to decisions, build consensus and bridge gaps. Builds rapport, credibility and relationships with multiple stakeholders. Great team player.
Must be detailoriented, conscientious, thorough and accurate
Must be able to step back and analyze at a broader level, while still being detailed oriented, conscientious, thorough and accurate
Strong interpersonal skills, diplomacy, and client serviceoriented attitude and mindset
Ability to work globally and crossfunctionally and lead change in a fastpaced environment
Proven ability to function well independently as well as in a team
Be comfortable in a fast paced and dynamic environment with a high degree of accuracy
Comfortable working in a fluid environment where roles and responsibilities are still evolving
Good project management and reporting skills
Ability to facilitate group discussions and run meetings
Ability to handle multiple projects under pressure
Welldeveloped sense of urgency and follow through
Ability to resolve complex issues and settle disputes equitably
Ability to determine when to escalate to management and identify the right stakeholders for decision making

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 benef