Data Engineer

Disney Media & Entertainment Distribution

United States

On-site

USD 102,000 - 137,000

Full time

6 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits
Savings plan
Educational opportunities

Job summary

Disney Experiences is seeking a Data Engineer to design and build data pipelines in AWS and Snowflake, and to create scalable data views for reporting and analytics. You will enable data-driven decision making across themes and parks, working in an Agile team.

The role emphasizes data quality, CI/CD practices, and collaboration with multiple business units to deliver reliable data products in a cloud-first environment.

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of data engineering experience in a data warehouse setting.
  • Strong Python skills and OO concepts.
  • Experience with Snowflake objects and cloud data platforms.
  • Ability to translate requirements into scalable data solutions.
  • Experience with AWS services and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Familiarity with data governance, security, and auditing.

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop data pipelines in AWS & Snowflake.
  • Create data views and support architecture decisions.
  • Develop data solutions using AWS services (CDK, CloudFormation, Kinesis, Lambda, S3).
  • Debug, troubleshoot, and optimize complex data pipelines.
  • Collaborate with business and tech teams in an Agile environment.
  • Provide data quality checks and support feature engineering.
  • Support data modeling for reporting and analytics.

Skills

Data engineering
Python
Snowflake
AWS
ETL/ELT
Data modeling
SQL
Self-service analytics
Data quality
Agile/Scrum

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/related field

Tools

Snowflake Scripting
Airflow
AWS CDK/CloudFormation
GitHub
Spark
Snowpipe
Redshift
DBT

Job description

Data Engineer
Job Description
About the Role

We Power the Magic! That’s our motto at Disney Experiences (DX). Our team creates world-class immersive digital experiences for the Company's premier vacation brands and segments. We are responsible for the end-to-end digital and physical Guest experience for all technology & digital-led initiatives across the Attractions & Entertainment, Food & Beverage, Resorts & Transportation and Merchandise lines of business.

As a Data Engineer at Disney Experiences, you will assist in designing, building, and overseeing the deployment of technology architecture, solutions, and software aimed at capturing, managing, and utilizing structured and unstructured data from various sources. This role is designed for professionals who are passionate about data engineering and can work effectively within a collaborative team environment.

The Data Engineer will create data ingestion pipelines including workloads and applications inside AWS. Implements, troubleshoots, and optimizes distributed solutions based on big data technologies like SQL, S3, Glue, MSK, Snowflake and Redshiftto solve large scale processing problems in a Cloud DW environment. Designs syndicated and curated data views that will be used for reporting, analytics, and advanced applications. Apply technical expertise and mathematical concepts to challenging programming problems. Strong communication, interpersonal, and collaboration skills, including the ability to work effectively in an agile / scrum environment.

Responsibilities
  • Design and develop data pipelines in AWS & Snowflake
  • Design and develop data views, assist with architecture decisions, deployment, and feedback.
  • Develop and support data solutions using AWS services including CDK, CloudFormation, Kinesis, Lambda, SQS, SNS, S3, and EC2.
  • Ability to debug and troubleshoot across a broad technical stack.
  • Product ownership and strong business support in enterprise level theme park related environment.
  • Working with a variety of business partner groups across Disney Parks and Resorts to implement optimal technical solutions.
  • Provide data and system analysis needed for feature engineering.
  • Develop and maintain data quality checks and validation processes to ensure reliable and accurate data assets.
Required Qualifications
  • 3+ years of Data Engineering or similar experience required, supporting SQL in a Data warehouse environment.
  • Strong knowledge of Python and object-oriented programming concepts.
  • Solid working experience with Snowflake native objects like SnowPipe, external/internal stages, external tables, integration objects, stored procedures (Snowflake Scripting), stream & task, data masking, time travel and cloning.
  • Design scalable dimensional and analytical data models that support enterprise reporting, self-service analytics, and data product consumption.
  • Ability to translate business requirements into scalable data solutions and curated datasets.
  • Experience building data pipelines and complex data transformations.
  • Experience with AWS S3, Glue, MSK, Redshift, Spark, or related ETL/Deployment tools.
  • Working knowledge of Data Build Tool (DBT).
  • Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development environment.
  • Strong conceptual understanding of security at rest and in transit for big data pipelines.
  • Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills with the ability to analyze and resolve data and system issues.
  • Hands-on experience implementing data pipelines and data models within established architectural frameworks.
  • Strong systems and data analysis skills, and experience with testing in data space.
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and source control tools such as GitHub.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience with Airflow or other workflow orchestration tools.
  • Experience supporting real-time data processing workloads.
  • Familiarity with data governance, metadata management, and data lineage concepts.
  • Exposure to machine learning or analytics use cases.
  • Experience working with large-scale cloud-based data platforms.
Required Education
  • Bachelors degree in computer science, Distributed Computing, Machine Learning, Mathematics or related field Required.
Additional Information

Benefits and Perks: Disney offers a rewards package to help you live your best life. This includes health and savings benefits, educational opportunities and special extras that only Disney can provide. Learn more about our benefits and perks at https://jobs.disneycareers.com/benefits.

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The hiring range for this position in Orlando is $101,800.00-$136,500.00 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.

Job Posting Segment

DX Technology

Job Posting Primary Business

Emerging Tech & Data

Primary Job Posting Category

Data Engineering

Employment Type

Full time

Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code

Orlando, FL, USA

Date Posted

2026-08-12

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