This role leads the technical strategy and architecture for PayPal's Customer Platform, driving the evolution of globally distributed, highly resilient systems that serve millions of customers worldwide. The Principal Architect will set the technology roadmap for identity services, customer data management, and platform infrastructure, ensuring low-latency, high-availability solutions that scale across global markets. A key responsibility is to design a Customer Data Store, which is a unified, cloud-native system that consolidates customer data across various domains. This initiative will enhance customer interactions, improve data accuracy, and support compliance and privacy requirements. This position requires deep expertise in microservices architecture, cloud-native technologies, customer and relationship modeling, and distributed systems design patterns.