The Walt Disney Company

Lead Data Platform Engineer

The Walt Disney Company

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: BurbankCaliforniaFloridaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $155,700 - $208,700 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Leading teams of developers (both Disney Cast Members and external vendors) in major software/data development projects
  • Designing and developing highly scalable, distributed enterprise data platform solutions
  • Design, develop and implement scalable distributed enterprise data platform solutions, focusing on multi-cluster warehousing, data sharing, and optimized storage
  • Write code that establishes and enhances frameworks and design proof of concepts, and review code for correctness, and its impact on software architecture
  • Lead the development of high-performance ETL/ELT pipelines using tools like dbt, Python, Airflow and more to integrate diverse data sources
  • Provide mentorship and direction to more junior software engineers on the team; serve as an advanced resource for other engineers on the team
  • Being the ongoing technical lead for data platform products (post-implementation)—leading engineering support for the production platform, leading ongoing enhancement projects, guiding technical product roadmap
  • Partner with Data Science, Analytics, and Product teams to ensure the platform meets evolving business requirements
  • Establish standards for data modeling (Vault, Star Schema), security (RBAC), and data quality frameworks

Requirements

  • 7+ years of professional programming and design experience in Scala, Java, Python etc.; demonstrated experience designing and developing enterprise data solutions and platforms
  • Demonstrated experience leading engineering initiatives on major software and data development projects
  • Experience with medallion-based data Lakehouse architectures
  • Experience with high-scale cloud data platforms and with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
  • Expert knowledge of data integration, dimensional modeling and data warehousing techniques
  • Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines for data
  • Proficiency in Java, SQL
Benefits
  • 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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Hard Skills & Tools
ScalaJavaPythonSQLETLELTdata modelingdimensional modelingdata warehousingCI/CD
Soft Skills
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