Director, Data Engineering

• Engineering and operations for business-critical data platforms

• Developing, implementing and integrating software and automation to support data governance and compliance policies, as defined by legal/privacy teams, including DSAR automation, record retention, access control and quality monitoring and observability.

• Responsible for ownership of the Disney Experiences data catalog

• Engineering and sustainment of data consumption, analytics, visualization and BI tools

• Operations and support of data pipelines and products, including incident, problem and change management and oversight of a large managed services team

• Visionary thinking and industry expertise to continually evolve the DX data platform, governance and consumption strategy

What You Need:

• 12+ years related work experience

• Advanced knowledge of Data Architecture, Data Warehousing, Advanced Analytics, and Data Science implementations

• Experience across Data Warehouse platforms such as Snowflake and BigQuery, with expert level knowledge in the Snowflake Platform

• Expertise with Data Lakehouse architectures and formats/standards, such as Parquet and Iceberg

• Experience designing automated, highly available ETL/ELT big data pipelines at scale

• Experience with data transformation and orchestration tools as well as dbt and AirFlow

• Knowledge of data quality practices and tooling such as Datadog and Anomalo

• Familiarity with data security and privacy regulations

• Experience with Enterprise Data Governance, BI (Business Intelligence) consumption tools

• Excellent verbal and written communication, compelling storytelling and presentation skills.

• A team player with vision, passion, discipline, and integrity

• Demonstrated inclusive and collaborative leadership that embraces diverse thought. Ability to develop geographically and otherwise diverse highly technical teams.

• Proven ability to successfully operate in a highly matrix organization where partnership and influence are key drivers of success

• Ability to work rapidly and efficiently in a fast paced and changing environment

Required Education:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems or related equivalent experience. 

Preferred Education:

• Master’s degree in computer science, Information Systems or related equivalent experience. 

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The hiring range for this position in CA is $202,900.00 to $272,100.00 per year. 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.