Staff Data Scientist
Ripple provides crypto and blockchain solutions for enterprises, enabling global financial entities to move, manage, and tokenize value. They focus on improving existing financial systems through partnerships and regulatory compliance, with products used in over 50 countries.
About Ripple
Ripple is an enterprise blockchain and crypto solutions company that aims to enable the world to move value as seamlessly as information moves today. Their mission is to build breakthrough crypto solutions for a world without economic borders. Using blockchain technology, Ripple facilitates global financial institutions, businesses, governments, and developers to move, manage, and tokenize value, thereby unlocking greater economic opportunity. The company works within existing financial systems to improve them, partnering with customers to streamline infrastructure and collaborating with regulators to ensure solutions are secure and compliant. Ripple's products are in commercial use by hundreds of customers across more than 50 countries, helping them expand into new markets, access liquidity solutions, and generate crypto-enabled revenue streams. They also support developers by providing tools for building on the XRP Ledger, a fast and sustainable public blockchain. Ripple’s payments, custody and stablecoin solutions empower financial institutions to integrate blockchain and digital assets into their business in a simple, secure, compliant way—all in one place. From instant payments to asset tokenization, blockchain and crypto are happening right now, across the world. It’s happening to suppliers, to retailers, to exchanges, to currencies, to sectors, to industries, to markets, and to global businesses. And it’s happening with Ripple.
Skills
About the Role
You will lead the Platform Data team to build a robust, scalable, and resilient data platform serving all portfolio applications. You will collaborate with solution teams, product managers, and stakeholders to deliver cloud-based data platforms and solutions, making key decisions on design, architecture, and delivery of systems. You'll stay on top of tech trends, experiment with new technologies, and share your knowledge through mentoring and participating in technology communities. As a coach and mentor, you'll help grow your team's skills while driving agile development and analytical methodologies daily. You'll continuously improve operations, processes, and technology choices, and interact with your team, customers, and peers to improve cross-department processes. You'll engage in concept discussions and propose technology solutions to meet business objectives, working with multi-functional project teams on solution architecture. You'll ensure all work meets quality, operational, and architectural standards, and participate in the team's you-build-it-you-run-it model, including on-call pager rotation.
Requirements
- Leadership acumen
- Strong aptitude with software development lifecycle and engineering excellence processes, Agile methodologies, and ability to project manage moderately sized projects
- Deep data engineering experience in complex distributed systems
- Strong technical acumen for owning a technical domain
- Hands-on approach and readiness to deep dive into code details with the team
- Strong communication, coordination and influencing skills
- Expertise in automation with ETL process, data movement with data medallion architecture
- Deep knowledge and experience with Databricks, SQL, Python, PowerShell, C#/.NET, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Data Lake/Lakehouse, Qlik, Zoho Analytics, Azure PaaS services
- Expertise with Izenda, SSRS and AWS Data Services a bonus
Responsibilities
- Lead the Platform Data team to build a robust, scalable and resilient data platform serving all portfolio applications
- Collaborate with solution teams, product managers, and deliver robust cloud-based Data platform and solutions
- Make decisions on the solution and the design, architecture, and delivery of systems
- Stay on top of tech trends, experiment with and learn new technologies, participate in internal and external technology communities, mentor engineering community members, and evaluate technical design and code
- Coach and mentor your team and grow them in their skills
- Drive agile development and analytical methodologies every day
- Continuously improve the operations, processes, methodologies, technology choices, and practices of the team
- Interact with your team, customers, and peers to share information and improve cross-department processes
- Ensure transparency and partnership between engineers and business partners
- Engage in concept discussions and propose technology solutions to meet business objectives and influence decisions
- Work with multi-functional project teams on solution architecture options for design
- Ensure all work meets quality, operational, and architectural standards needed for organizational success
- Participate in the team's you-build-it-you-run-it model, including on-call pager rotation
Benefits
- Professional development budget
- Flexible in-office collaboration schedule
- Bi-weekly all-company meetings
- Team offsites, team bonding activities, happy hours
- Competitive bonuses and equity
- Competitive benefits covering physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support
- Employee giving match
- Mobile phone stipend
- R&R days
- Generous wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite & virtual programming
- Generous vacation policy
- Industry-leading parental leave policies and family planning benefits
- Catered lunches, fully-stocked kitchens with premium snacks/beverages, and fun events