
Lead Data Platform Engineer
The Walt Disney Company
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Burbank • California • Florida • United 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.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
ScalaJavaPythonSQLETLELTdata modelingdimensional modelingdata warehousingCI/CD
Soft Skills
leadershipmentorshipcommunicationcollaborationtechnical guidance