Lead Data Engineering Manager – Guest Experience Platforms

The Walt Disney Company

Orlando (FL)

On-site

USD 163,000 - 219,000

Full time

47 hours ago

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Job summary

The Walt Disney Company seeks a hands-on leader to drive development and delivery of modern data products for Disney Experiences. You will lead engineers responsible for building and improving data pipelines, ensuring freshness, completeness, security, and privacy, aligned with roadmap goals and business insights.

You’ll collaborate with internal partners and peers across the company, reporting to a Senior Manager or Director.

Qualifications

8+ years related work experience, including 3+ years 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 DataDog 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.