Staff Data Scientist
Ripple provides payments, custody and stablecoin solutions that help financial institutions integrate blockchain and digital assets.
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About Ripple
Ripple helps financial institutions transform global payments by providing blockchain-powered infrastructure for cross-border payments, digital asset custody, and stablecoin solutions. With it, users can enable instant settlements, reduce costs, and access new markets. The company was originally founded as OpenCoin in 2012 and rebranded to Ripple in 2015.
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About the Role
Lead the Platform Data team in building a robust, scalable, and resilient data platform for portfolio applications. Collaborate with solution teams, product managers, stakeholders, customers, and peers to deliver cloud-based data solutions, make architecture and delivery decisions, mentor engineers, improve processes, and uphold quality and operational standards. Participate in the team's you-build-it-you-run-it model and on-call pager rotation.
Requirements
- Leadership acumen.
- Strong knowledge of software development lifecycle, engineering excellence processes, Agile methodologies, and project management.
- Deep data engineering experience with complex distributed systems.
- Strong technical acumen and ownership of a technical domain.
- Hands-on approach with willingness to work deeply in code.
- Strong communication, coordination, and influencing skills.
- Expertise in ETL automation and data movement using medallion architecture.
- Deep experience with Databricks, SQL, Python, PowerShell, C#/.NET, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Data Lake/Lakehouse, Qlik, Zoho Analytics, and Azure PaaS services.
- Experience with Izenda, SSRS, and AWS Data Services is a bonus.
Responsibilities
- Lead the Platform Data team to build a robust, scalable, and resilient data platform.
- Collaborate with solution teams, product managers, and stakeholders to deliver cloud-based data platforms and solutions.
- Make decisions on solution design, architecture, and system delivery.
- Evaluate technical designs and code while experimenting with new technologies.
- Coach and mentor team members and grow their skills.
- Drive agile development and analytical methodologies.
- Improve team operations, processes, methodologies, technology choices, and practices.
- Improve cross-department processes through collaboration with teams, customers, and peers.
- Ensure transparency and partnership between engineers and business partners.
- Propose technology solutions to meet business objectives and influence decisions.
- Work with multifunctional project teams on solution architecture.
- Ensure work meets quality, operational, and architectural standards.
- Participate in on-call pager rotation through the you-build-it-you-run-it model.
Benefits
- Professional development budget
- Flexible in-office collaboration schedule
- Bi-weekly all-company meetings
- Team offsites, team bonding activities, and happy hours
- Competitive bonuses and equity
- Healthcare, retirement, family-forming, and family-support benefits
- Employee giving match
- Mobile phone stipend
- R&R days
- Wellness reimbursement and onsite and virtual programming
- Generous vacation policy
- Parental leave and family planning benefits
- Catered lunches and stocked kitchens