Data Engineering Lead — Pipelines & Platforms

Disney Experiences; Glendale (CA); On-site; USD 172,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus potential

Job summary

Disney Experiences Technology & Digital is seeking a hands-on leader to drive development of modern data products. You will head a team building pipelines that ensure data freshness, completeness, and privacy while delivering on the roadmap.

Based in Glendale, CA, you will collaborate with partners across the company, mentor engineers, and reinforce best practices in data engineering and security to enable trusted insights and growth.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years related work experience, including 3 years? experience leading or mentoring engineers.
• Solid working knowledge of Data Architecture, Data Warehousing, Advanced Analytics, and Data Science implementations.
• Experience with Data Warehouse platforms such as Snowflake and BigQuery, with strong working knowledge of the Snowflake Platform.
• Familiarity with Data Lakehouse architectures and formats/standards, such as Parquet and Iceberg.
• Experience designing or maintaining automated, highly available ETL/ELT big data pipelines at scale.
• Experience with data transformation and orchestration tools such as dbt and Airflow.
• Familiarity with data quality practices and tooling such as Data Dog and Anomalo.
• Familiarity with data security and privacy regulations.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• A team player with vision, passion, discipline, and integrity.
• Demonstrated inclusive and collaborative leadership that embraces diverse thought; experience developing engineers on a team.
• Ability to operate effectively in a matrixed organization where partnership and influence support success.
• Ability to work efficiently in a fast-paced and changing environment.

Responsibilities

• Partner with stakeholders across the organization to understand business needs and translate them into well-scoped engineering work.
• Execute against the strategy and roadmap for data products supporting Guest experiences, and contribute ideas that help shape it
• Lead a team of engineers day-to-day, balancing delivery against plans with the growth and development of individual team members
• Reinforce a strong culture of best practices and standards in data and engineering
• Serve as a technical resource on delivery practices, able to speak to capabilities and processes with engineers and partners alike
• Support data collection strategies and onboarding processes that enable improved data capabilities while adhering to data privacy requirements
• Stay current on product direction for applicable technologies to understand how shifts in the consumer privacy landscape may affect the Guest data strategy

Skills

Data Architecture

Data Warehousing

Advanced Analytics

Data Science

Snowflake

BigQuery

Data Lakehouse

Parquet

Iceberg

ETL pipelines

dbt

Airflow

Datadog

Anomalo

Data security

Privacy regulations

Leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study

Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study

Tools

dbt

Airflow

Datadog

Anomalo

Job description

Disney Experiences Technology & Digital is seeking a hands-on leader to drive development of modern data products. You will head a team building pipelines that ensure data freshness, completeness, and privacy while delivering on the roadmap.

Based in Glendale, CA, you will collaborate with partners across the company, mentor engineers, and reinforce best practices in data engineering and security to enable trusted insights and growth.