Senior Data Platform Product Owner

Job Description

Are you ready to write your next chapter?

Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. With proven technology, we process the largest volume of payments in the world, driving the global economy every day. When you join Worldpay, you join a global community of experts and changemakers, working to reinvent an industry by constantly evolving how we work and making the way millions of people pay easier, every day.

What makes a Worldpayer? It’s simple: Think, Act, Win. We stay curious, always asking the right questions to be better every day, finding creative solutions to simplify the complex. We’re dynamic, every Worldpayer is empowered to make the right decisions for their customers. And we’re determined, always staying open – winning and failing as one.

We’re looking for a Senior Data Platform Product Owner to join our ever evolving Cloud Data Platform Team to help us unleash the potential of every business.

Are you ready to make your mark? Then you sound like a Worldpayer.

About The Team

Worldpay Cloud Data Platform team provides WorldPay big Data capabilities including large scale data processing, analytics, fraud platforms, machine learning engineering, stream processing and data insights. Worldpay Cloud Data Platform team help maintain and advance cloud data platforms and services to build data products powering our business services and customers.  

What You’ll Own

Leadership

• Create and maintain the roadmap for the Data Orchestration, BI and AI/ML platform teams.

• Lead a team of platform engineers with expertise in Databricks, Airflow, Tableau, Web Focus and AWS

• Drive and own the backlog to automate operation, installation, and monitoring of the data visualization platform components in our infrastructure stack in cloud and in on-premises data centers

• Manage and resolve critical support issues with a high degree of technical complexity

• Measure and monitor service and support performance and health (SLAs, KPIs, etc.)

• Plan and implement upgrades of tools and design system enhancements with emerging features.

• Anticipate & Manage dependencies with other IIT Product Owners

• Collaborate with engineering team on technical strategies, design patterns, and practices relevant to the optimization and continuous improvement of BI platform within the organization

• Design, optimize, document, and implement the operational aspects for administering various BI tools within WP data platform ecosystem

• Develop and maintain operational runbooks and training curriculum for support team

• Provide enterprise-wide data visualization technical oversight and mentorship for geographically dispersed colleagues and contracted team members

• Implement release management, governance, cost monitoring, user security auditing and performance optimizations to improve customer experience and system reliability

• Apply emerging and traditional technologies for analytics improvements in support of enterprise analytics platform strategy

• Foster a collaborative and high-performance culture within the team

Platform and Technology

• Lead the development of standard Platforms that would provide various data technology capabilities (Integrations, Data Persistence, Data Computation, Orchestration, Analytics, AIML, Governance)

• Develop cost effective scalable and future proofing infrastructure solutions based on the requirements for product services that covers both functional and non-functional requirements.

• Manages the operating model for the platform teams to onboard, build and support the roll out of products.

• Ensure the design and architecture of the data platform meet the industry best practices and standards

Enablement

• Engages various technology and product stakeholders and work through from business objectives to a solution design based on their unique product requirements.

• Designs architectures, functional solutions and implementation ready approaches for various products and key initiatives to accelerate the build of Solutions.

• Creates architecture specifications and other design artifacts representing the approach and effect of new proposed solutions

• Facilitate technical and business sessions required to align solution architecture with business and technology objectives throughout the development life cycle

•  Provides implementation guidance to a variety of products and key Data initiatives throughout the product development life cycle.

• Work with the several Project teams to help align, implement, and accelerate the development. Manage POCs, design updates, product changes, project escalations.

• Expertise

• Subject matter expert in Data Architecture, Data Integration, Data Persistence & Data Analytics platforms and well-architected patterns.

• Defines appropriate architecture principles and standards, patterns, blueprints, best practices and frameworks in the Data Architecture to support product development across the organization.

•  Supports the design patterns for building Data Models, Meta data layers leveraging Snowflake data warehouse platform.

• Supports the build of data technology capabilities and the migration of analytics artifacts from legacy solutions to modern platforms

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s in computer science or engineering, or the equivalent experience – post-graduate education desired.

• Ten+ years of Big-Data experience including building data platforms in cloud. Preferably using AWS, Snowflake, Kafka, Databricks, Airflow and equivalent services.

• Leadership skills with experience in driving large projects and implementing applications in a shared services environment.

• Experience with implementing and maintaining high availability production systems

• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills with an aptitude for learning new technologies.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interface with both technical and non-technical individuals as needed.

• Experience with BI platforms like Tableau, WebFocus, ThoughtSpot, PowerBI, or similar tools.

• Strong Windows and/or Linux system administration experience.

• Experience working with SQL and cloud based relational databases such as Snowflake.

• Experience with authentication and authorization systems like LDAP, Kerberos, AD, and IAM.

• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and GCP.

• Experience debugging networking issues such as DNS resolutions, proxy settings, security groups

• Experience with developing monitoring architecture and implementing monitoring agents, dashboards, escalations, and alerts

• Knowledge of security controls for the public cloud (encryption of data in motion/rest and key management)

• Strong development skills in Python or other scripting language

• Experience with large-scale Transformation Programs and Fortune 500 companies

• Experience with cloud transformations and cloud migrations
  Proficiency in solutions design and requirements definition disciplines leveraging model driven design-based tools and techniques.

• Experience with data modelling, building data schemas (normalized, flat, star, snowflake, etc)

• Expertise with end-to-end systems development life cycles and a background leading large projects.

• Experience designing and implementing applications in a shared service environment.

Worldpay Perks - What We’ll Bring For You

We know it’s bigger than just your career. It’s your life, and your world. That’s why we offer global benefits and programs to support you at every stage. Here’s a taste of what you can expect.

• A competitive salary and benefits.

• Time to support charities and give back to your community.

• Parental leave policy.

• Global recognition platform.

• Virgin Pulse access.

• Global employee assistance program.

What Makes A Worldpayer

At Worldpay, we take our Values seriously, and we live them every day. Think like a customer, Act like an owner, and Win as a team.

• Curious. Humble. Creative. We ask the right questions, listening and learning to get better every day. We simplify the complex and we’re always looking to create a bigger impact for our colleagues and customers.

• Empowered. Accountable. Dynamic. We stay agile, using our initiative, taking calculated risks to progress. Never standing still, never settling, we work at pace to achieve our goals. We champion our ideas and stay flexible to make them happen. We know that every action adds up.

• Determined. Inclusive. Open. Unlocking potential means working as one global community. Our work spans borders, and we stay united by our purpose. We collaborate, always encouraging others to perform at their best, welcoming new perspectives.

Does this sound like you? Then you sound like a Worldpayer.

Apply now to write the next chapter in your career. We can’t wait to hear from you.

To find out more about working with us, find us on LinkedIn.

Worldpay is committed to providing its employees with an exciting career opportunity and competitive compensation. The pay range for this full-time position is $89,180.00 - $149,820.00 and reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for this position based on the posted role, level, and location. Within the range, actual individual starting pay is determined additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Any changes in work location will also impact actual individual starting pay. Please consult with your recruiter about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

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Sourcing Model

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