Manager, Technology - Data Platform Engineering

Company: Disney Parks, Experiences and Products
Location: Los Angeles
Posted on: November 20, 2023

Job Description:

"We Power the Magic!" That's our motto at Disney Parks, Experiences and Products Technology & Digital. We create world-class, immersive digital experiences for the Company's premier vacation brands including Disney's Parks & Resorts worldwide, Disney Cruise Line, Aulani, A Disney Resort & Spa, and Disney Vacation Club. We are responsible for the end-to-end digital and physical Guest experience for all technology & digital-led initiatives across the Attractions & Entertainment, Food & Beverage, Resorts & Transportation and Merchandise lines of business as well as other initiatives including MyDisneyExperience and Hey, Disney!Do you love data? Are you a supportive leader who can drive excellence in delivery? Come join us! We are looking for a Senior Manager of Technology to lead the development and successful delivery of Guest data products and solutions. You will lead all aspects of assigned data initiatives along with multiple engineering studios. You will sit in the Data Products & Platform team within the Technology & Digital organization for Disney Parks, Experiences, and Products.You Will:

• Lead teams who can craft, build, and improve the framework and processes that handle consumer data, ensuring freshness, completeness, security, and privacy
• Act as a leader of leaders, guiding and influencing their ability to effectively guide and hold their teams accountable
• Maintain productive engagement with partners to ensure solutions are right-sized and strategically aligned to the overall data strategy and architecture
• Develop and deliver on timelines, budgets, acceptance criteria, and service levels
• Ensure your team is delivering solutions with a high-degree of quality, stability, scalability, and maintainabilityYou Have:
  • 8+ years of experience with the delivery of data solutions, including directly leading engineering resources and studios
  • Deep technical expertise in data, platforms, and tools-including AWS, Snowflake, dbt, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/CDK)
  • Strong problem solving and influencing skills, able to critically think through and elegantly address logic problems with code
  • Ability to navigate in the gray easily and work independently to guide the development, creation, and delivery of strategies and roadmaps
  • Excellent communicator and partnership skills with the ability to interface and influence across the organization, including Executives
  • Strong project leadership skills, can handle the creation of program and project plans across multiple initiatives and studios
  • Experience working in the hospitality, travel, or entertainment industry
  • Solid grasp and believer of agile development approaches, including DevOps conceptsRequired Education:
    • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experiencePreferred Education:
      • Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
        The hiring range for this position is $156,620.00 to $231,110.00 per year, which factors in various geographic regions. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.

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