PPRO is a fintech company that provides digital payment solutions to businesses and banks so that they can scale their local payment services through one connection. Stripe and PayPal are just some of the names that work with PPRO to boost their conversions and eliminate the complexities of local payments.
Since 2006, PPRO has fostered an open working environment where every idea is valued, and continuous improvement is encouraged. Our diverse global team, representing over 50 nationalities across 11 international locations, is united by a single goal to deliver the best products and services to our partners and customers.
Join us and help shape the future of payments.
The Purpose:
The Data & Analytics team at PPRO builds an end-to-end internal consumer platform for ingestion, transformation and consumption of all the data at PPRO. Our vision is to democratise the data through a comprehensive, yet standardised self service data platform to enable the growth of the business.
We are looking for an experienced manager to lead and support a mix of engineers and data analysts and drive the development of the platform for the rest of PPRO.
What you will be doing:
- Define and execute the product vision, roadmap, and strategy for data and analytics products and features
- Partner with stakeholders to identify key business questions and opportunities for leveraging data to drive strategic decisions
- Lead the development of analytics products, including data modelling, and managing the product lifecycle
- Oversee daily operational aspects of the data analytics engineering team and coordination of the ongoing projects with internal and external stakeholders
- Provide guidance, support and professional development opportunities to your team, set development goals and provide regular feedback
- Analyse and interpret data to uncover actionable insights and make data-driven recommendations
- Foster a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement and ensure quality of the delivery as well as alignment with the rest of the engineering strategy
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment on product goals, priorities, and timelines.
- Nurture and grow the analytics function across the teams
- Communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels to ensure transparency and alignment on product initiatives
You will need to have:
- Passion and experience leading a mixed team of data engineers and data analysts
- Great communication skills and the ability to get teams and individuals excited about our mission and vision
- Proficiency in crafting complex technical solutions in both SQL and Python
- The latest trends and best practices in data warehousing, software engineering and security
- Clarity, guidance and proficiency in terms of data modelling, transformation and aggregation using latest frameworks
- Experience with data warehouse at scale Snowflake, BigQuery Redshift
- Expert knowledge of the cloud provider offerings either on AWS, GCP or Azure as well as experience building infrastructure as code
- Ability to distil complex technical data challenges and present them to non technical audiences
- Experience in setting targets, goals and KPIs and creating an environment of accountability and ownership