Senior Technical Program Manager – Digital Experiences

The Walt Disney Company (France); Orlando (FL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 161,000; Full time

Job summary

The Walt Disney Company in Orlando, FL seeks a Senior Technical Project Manager to lead complex, multi-project programs across Disney Experiences Technology. You will drive end-to-end delivery, manage interdependent teams, and align with business strategy and ROI.

Role requires deep agile, DevOps, and governance expertise, with strong leadership to coach teams, optimize processes, and ensure on-time, on-budget outcomes for high-impact initiatives.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of technical project/program management experience.
• Understanding of Cloud, 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, Lean, Kanban, Waterfall and blending of styles to enable collaboration and delivery.
• Deep understanding of Agile technical practices, DevOps and testing concepts (CI/CD, TDD).
• Significant experience coaching and mentoring teams on project management practices including Agile, Lean, Kanban, Waterfall.
• Excellent ability to understand architectural and technical aspects of a project.
• Experience managing large project budgets.
• Experience with tools such as: Microsoft suite, Keynote, Smartsheet, MyPPM(Clarity), MyJira, Tableau, and PowerBI.

Responsibilities

• Drives execution and delivery of technical projects through full delivery life cycle ensuring project is delivered timely and on-budget.
• Works with engineering teams, including Software Engineers, Product Managers, Architects, and leadership to establish processes across all program areas that will ensure success on strategically prioritized projects and improve efficiency.
• Defines, optimizes, and manages Agile project management ceremonies and processes for large project teams. Manage hardware/software procurement of assigned projects
• Develops a program plan comprised of parallel projects and multiple project managers that collectively produce work that has significant business impact
• Monitors & adjusts program plan to respond to unplanned changes, ensuring program is progressing to meet business goals
• Creates governance practices and provides senior-level leadership oversight and control for the program
• Implements fiscal practices and controls, authorizing, recording, and reporting on program expenditures & ROI
• Develops infrastructure needed to support the program

Skills

Cloud & APIs

Tech governance

Communication

Agile/Lean/Kanban

DevOps & CI/CD

Mentoring teams

Architecture understanding

Budget management

Microsoft Suite

Keynote

Smartsheet

MyPPM (Clarity)

MyJira

Tableau

PowerBI

Education

Bachelor’s degree in relevant field

Tools

Microsoft Suite

Keynote

Smartsheet

MyPPM(Clarity)

MyJira

Tableau

PowerBI

Job description

The Walt Disney Company in Orlando, FL seeks a Senior Technical Project Manager to lead complex, multi-project programs across Disney Experiences Technology. You will drive end-to-end delivery, manage interdependent teams, and align with business strategy and ROI.

Role requires deep agile, DevOps, and governance expertise, with strong leadership to coach teams, optimize processes, and ensure on-time, on-budget outcomes for high-impact initiatives.