Senior AI/ML Platform Engineering Lead

1008 Disney Worldwide Services, Inc.

Orlando (FL)

On-site

USD 198,000 - 265,000

Full time

2 days ago
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Job summary

Disney is seeking a Senior Manager, AI & Machine Learning Engineering to lead the D-Fi platform's AI/ML layer, data foundation, and automated finance workflows. You will shape architecture, guide a global engineering team, and partner with Finance to translate business needs into technical roadmaps.

You’ll stay hands-on, review code, and set governance for RBAC and production-grade AI solutions, while balancing build-vs-buy decisions and ensuring scalable, compliant implementations across

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of software and/or ML engineering leadership experience.
  • Experience shipping production LLM/AI applications.
  • Production experience with LLM application architecture — RAG pipelines, prompt engineering, and context/retrieval design at scale.
  • Reading, writing, and reviewing Python code.
  • Experience working across distributed, cross-timezone engineering teams.
  • Ability to translate finance/business problems into technical scope and trade-offs.

Responsibilities

  • Lead a global engineering team for the AI framework and data foundation.
  • Set architecture and technical strategy for AI/ML and data layers.
  • Be hands-on with implementation, code review, and issue resolution.
  • Translating finance needs into a scoped technical roadmap and communicating trade-offs to leaders.

Skills

Engineering leadership
LLM/AI platform experience
LLM applications
LangChain / LlamaIndex
Vector databases
Data modeling
Python
UI/Frontend knowledge
MLOps
Distributed teams
Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

SAP
Cognos
Data Marketplace
NetDocs
Coupa
Clarity

Job description

Disney is seeking a Senior Manager, AI & Machine Learning Engineering to lead the D-Fi platform's AI/ML layer, data foundation, and automated finance workflows. You will shape architecture, guide a global engineering team, and partner with Finance to translate business needs into technical roadmaps.

You’ll stay hands-on, review code, and set governance for RBAC and production-grade AI solutions, while balancing build-vs-buy decisions and ensuring scalable, compliant implementations across

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