Engineering Program Mgmt 3

Company: PayPal
Location: Scottsdale
Posted on: June 9, 2021

Job Description:

Who we are

Fueled by a fundamental belief that having access to financial services creates opportunity, PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) is committed to democratizing financial services and empowering people and businesses to join and thrive in the global economy. Our open digital payments platform gives PayPal's 392 million active account holders the confidence to connect and transact in new and powerful ways, whether they are online, on a mobile device, in an app, or in person. Through a combination of technological innovation and strategic partnerships, PayPal creates better ways to manage and move money, and offers choice and flexibility when sending payments, paying or getting paid. Available in more than 200 markets around the world, the PayPal platform, including Braintree, Venmo and Xoom, enables consumers and merchants to receive money in more than 100 currencies, withdraw funds in 56 currencies and hold balances in their PayPal accounts in 25 currencies.

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Job Description Summary:

Today, PayPal is available in 190 markets, 24 currencies, and is accepted by millions of online merchants around the world. With more than 100 million active registered accounts worldwide, PayPal has made it possible for individuals and businesses to pay and get paid online across different locations, currencies and languages.

We are currently seeking a Senior Program Manager to join PayPal's Security PMO to manage our Security Engineering Program. The Program Manager will be responsible for scope, budget, planning, communication, risk management, and project management for security engineering tools program and key projects within this program. Programs span multiple teams, projects, geographic locations, time zones, deliverables, and involve complex technologies.

The right candidate is a self-motivated individual with strong skills in program management, problem solving, and relationship management to create and drive a program to tighten the data security practices we have in place over our internal data. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to analyze, define, and verify current and future control solutions to manage risk of sensitive data and improve security posture across our environment. You will drive execution of remediation plans and work in measuring and improving current processes and designs to facilitate increased efficiency and execution. This candidate will have deep experience and understanding of technology, project management, change management, and organizational dynamics; able to navigate the organization as a champion, change agent and strategic partner at all levels.

Job Description:

• Program Planning & Execution
• Create relationships with business & technology stakeholders including architects, development managers, scrum teams, program/project managers, QA, Release Engineering and Management
• Participate and represent information security in delivery/operational meetings; conduct information security operational review meetings with delivery and client (e.g., CISO) key stakeholders with topics including information security status and performance
• Drive the coordination and execution of security tool implementation and solutions
• Maintain information security engineering tool program strategy (forward looking roadmap) aligning services and portfolio components to the strategy
• Manage scope, milestones and budget across program to ensure completion of program/project goals
• Develop and provide direction and guidance to team in developing appropriately structured and detailed program/project plans
• Identify and track program/project interdependencies to ensure timely and successful delivery
• Identify, track, prioritize and drive resolution of program level issues, leveraging lessons learned from prior experience and work to address and mitigate systemic issues
• Identify and track major milestones for program, or key projects in program(s)
• Monitor and measure progress to ensure that the projects meet or exceed performance target, ensuring that teams document accurate status of program, projects within program(s), or external projects that have dependencies. Ensure successful completion of program exit criteria.
• Communicate timely and accurate status to appropriate levels and stake holders.
• Identify opportunities for and lead deep dives on key initiatives through program and project reviews
• Ensure budgets are planned and adhered to

• Ensure that resources are effectively allocated across program

• Provide delivery leadership to project teams
• Build and lead high performance program & project teams
• Actively collaborate with leaders across the technology organization to ensure that resources, dependencies, risks and constraints are aggressively managed in a timely fashion
• Identify impacts and champion the needs of PayPal groups as it relates to your project or program.
• Provide and drive recommendations which influence technology strategy and product definition

Job Requirements

Experience

• 5+ years of information security experience and a strong knowledge of standards / regulations impacting information security (e.g., PCI, HIPAA, FISMA)
• Experience in the use of security principles; risk assessment policies and standards; information security best practices, products and technologies; and network technologies.
• Experience and proficiency in a broad range of operating systems, platforms, client/server and web applications, and security services such as authentication and encryption technologies in the areas of network security skills and knowledge of TCP/IP protocols and associated vulnerabilities.
• Demonstrated ability in leading analysis of technology environments that highlight security and compliance needs
• Successful track record of managing large, complex programs that deliver technical solutions across multiple project teams and organizational units that meet agreed upon business objectives and performance metrics
• Proven ability to develop effective, matrixed, cross-organization relationships, collaborating and communicating across business and technology stakeholders and multiple geographies
• Strong technical acumen, able to ensure that technical solutions, strategies, practices, and governance deliver business and customer value
• Deep knowledge of project management process, project management tools, and management techniques
• Success in developing program/project level artifacts to support a major implementation program with concurrent releases
• Working knowledge and demonstration of projects spanning across technologies such as server, network, storage, database, and application tools

Professional Qualities

• Strong communication skills
• Strong leadership skills; self-motivated and a self-starter with a "Can do" attitude
• Team player, energetic personality, quality minded, focused, committed, able to work independently in a fast paced, changing environment
• Strong team management skills, able to instill commitment among team members
• High degree of professional confidence and credibility with effective presence, strong written and verbal communication skills, able to communicate technical concepts and plans at all levels
• Strong negotiation skills in all mediums and throughout all levels of the organization.
• Strong problem solving skills, able to prioritize among many conflicting needs, advocate a course of action, and pursue it consistently but flexible and responsive to dynamic situations
• Continually seeks opportunities to increase stakeholder value

Knowledge of Agile/Scrum development

Subsidiary:

PayPal

Travel Percent:

0

Primary Location:

Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America

Additional Locations:

We're a purpose-driven company whose beliefs are the foundation for how we conduct business every day. We hold ourselves to our One Team Behaviors which demand that we hold the highest ethical standards, to empower an open and diverse workplace, and strive to treat everyone who is touched by our business with dignity and respect. Our employees challenge the status quo, ask questions, and find solutions. We want to break down barriers to financial empowerment. Join us as we change the way the world defines financial freedom.

PayPal provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, PayPal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at paypalglobaltalentacquisition@paypal.com.

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