Lead Data Engineering & Platform Architect

Disney Experiences; Orlando (FL); On-site; USD 163,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

Disney Experiences Technology & Digital is seeking a hands-on data engineering leader to drive development and delivery of modern data products. You will lead engineers building and improving pipelines that handle consumer data, ensuring freshness, quality, security, and privacy while aligning with roadmap goals to deliver actionable insights and growth.

Based in Orlando, you will partner with stakeholders across the organization, mentor engineers, and reinforce best practices.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 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 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

Snowflake

BigQuery

dbt

Airflow

Data Governance

Data Privacy

Leadership

Mentoring

Cross-functional Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Information Systems / Software Engineering

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Snowflake Platform

BigQuery

Parquet

Iceberg

dbt

Airflow

Data Dog

Anomalo

Job description

Disney Experiences Technology & Digital is seeking a hands-on data engineering leader to drive development and delivery of modern data products. You will lead engineers building and improving pipelines that handle consumer data, ensuring freshness, quality, security, and privacy while aligning with roadmap goals to deliver actionable insights and growth.

Based in Orlando, you will partner with stakeholders across the organization, mentor engineers, and reinforce best practices.