Director, Data Platform & Analytics (Remote)

Disney; Salem (OR); Remote; USD 198,932 - 266,860; Full time

Job summary

Walt Disney Parks, Experiences & Products, LLC is seeking a Director of Technology – Information Systems to lead data and analytics platforms in Salem. You will drive cloud-based, scalable solutions and collaborate with data engineers, scientists and business stakeholders to enable self-service insights.

The role requires a BS/MS in a related field and 4+ years in data engineering/architecture, with hands-on experience in Snowflake, BigQuery, Airflow and ML workflows.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, statistics or related field.
• 4 years of experience in data engineering, data structures and architecture.
• Expert knowledge of data architecture, data warehousing, analytics, and statistical science implementations.
• Experience with data warehouse platforms such as Snowflake and BigQuery, and familiarity with Snowflake platform technologies.
• Proficiency with lakehouse architectures and common file formats.
• Experience designing and building large-scale ETL/ELT pipelines using Kinesis, Kafka and Google Pub/Sub.
• Hands-on experience with data transformation using DBT.
• Knowledge of orchestration tools such as Airflow.
• Experience with data federation tools like Starburst Presto.
• Knowledge of data quality practices and tools (e.g., SODA, Datadog, Anomalo).
• Familiarity with data security and privacy regulations and tools (e.g., Privacera, Apache Ranger).
• Experience with data governance platforms like Alation.
• Proficiency with BI tools: Tableau, Looker, SAS and MicroStrategy.
• Deep understanding of data architecture for AI/ML integration patterns.
• Experience developing and deploying machine-learning solutions at scale.
• Proficiency with tools such as SageMaker, Jupyter, Streamlit and Dataiku.
• Knowledge of MLOps tools including SageMaker, MLflow, Google Colab and Google Data Studio.
• Understanding of machine-learning model versioning and observability.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; ability to collaborate across teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead the layout, development and implementation of data and analytics solutions that support the DPEP information strategy with cloud-native tech.
• Oversee daily platform operation, ensuring high availability, scalability, performance and data-driven optimization.
• Collaborate with data engineers, data scientists, analysts and business stakeholders to meet user needs.
• Assess COTS solutions and foster partnerships to evolve the data platform architecture.
• Prototype new technologies and enable teams to consume and understand statistics with modern BI tooling.
• Pioneer solutions that enhance information security, privacy and governance compliance.
• Architect extensible architectures to support ML/AI and emerging tech.

Skills

Data architecture

Cloud analytics

Team leadership

Communications

BI tooling

ML/AI integration

ETL/ELT

MLOps

Education

BS/MS in CS/Engineering/Math/Stats

4+ years data engineering/architecture

Tools

Snowflake

BigQuery

Parquet/Iceberg

Airflow

DBT

SageMaker

Jupyter/Streamlit/Dataiku

Starburst Presto

Job description

Walt Disney Parks, Experiences & Products, LLC is seeking a Director of Technology – Information Systems to lead data and analytics platforms in Salem. You will drive cloud-based, scalable solutions and collaborate with data engineers, scientists and business stakeholders to enable self-service insights.

The role requires a BS/MS in a related field and 4+ years in data engineering/architecture, with hands-on experience in Snowflake, BigQuery, Airflow and ML workflows.