Lead Technical Program Manager: Large Digital Initiatives

The Walt Disney Company; Celebration (FL); On-site; USD 148,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus potential

Long-term incentives

Medical benefits

Job summary

The Walt Disney Company’s Disney Experiences Technology (DXT) team is seeking a Lead Technical Project Manager in Celebration, FL to oversee large-scale programs across Disney’s premier vacation brands. You will guide a multi-disciplinary group from initiation through completion, ensuring on-time, on-budget delivery and strong governance.

You’ll orchestrate agile and hybrid delivery, manage budgets and RAID logs, mentor junior PMs, and report progress through dashboards and executive updates to

Qualifications

• 7+ years of technical project/program management experience working with technical teams developing enterprise class solutions.
• General understanding of APIs, services, database technologies, technologist roles and responsibilities, capabilities & platform dependencies, software development lifecycle, engineering and/or product development.
• Influence and negotiation, communication, professional maturity & organizational savvy, relationship building, dependency mapping.
• Hands-on experience with Agile, Waterfall and Hybrid as well as extensive experience with pragmatic blending of styles to facilitate collaboration and delivery.
• Strong ability to interpret and navigate architectural and technical aspects of complex projects and familiarity with Agile technical practices, DevOps and testing concepts (CI/CD, TDD).
• Highly organized with exceptional time management and attention to detail.
• Proven experience managing large-scale budgets and financial oversight.
• Tools & Technologies: Office Productivity:Microsoft Office Suite, Keynote, Smartsheet; Project Management:MyPPM (Clarity), MyJira; Reporting & Analytics:Power BI.

Responsibilities

• Lead high-priority, multi-site strategic programs and cross-functional projects through the full delivery lifecycle, ensuring timely and on-budget delivery.
• Collaborate with engineering teams (Software Engineers, Product Managers, Architects, and leadership) to establish scalable processes that drive success and efficiency across program areas.
• Guide and support junior technical project managers throughout the project lifecycle.
• Partner with business leaders and stakeholders to align engineering efforts with program goals.
• Define, optimize, and manage Agile ceremonies and processes at the team-of-teams level.
• Maintain accurate project documentation including scope, RAID logs, plans, and budgets.
• Reconcile actuals, adjust forecasts, and communicate budget updates and billing changes to leadership.
• Align resource capacity with project plans and collaborate with managers to balance workload and budget.
• Anticipate and mitigate risks; manage scope changes and assess impact on timelines and budgets.
• Lead stakeholder coordination and ensure alignment on goals and timelines.
• Own communication plans, manage expectations, and deliver weekly updates, dashboards, and executive presentations.

Skills

Technical project management

Stakeholder management

Agile & hybrid methodologies

Budget management

Risk & scope management

Communication

Cross-functional leadership

DevOps familiarity

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

MyPPM (Clarity)

MyJira

Power BI

Smartsheet

Microsoft Office

Keynote

Job description

The Walt Disney Company’s Disney Experiences Technology (DXT) team is seeking a Lead Technical Project Manager in Celebration, FL to oversee large-scale programs across Disney’s premier vacation brands. You will guide a multi-disciplinary group from initiation through completion, ensuring on-time, on-budget delivery and strong governance.

You’ll orchestrate agile and hybrid delivery, manage budgets and RAID logs, mentor junior PMs, and report progress through dashboards and executive updates to