
Principal Data Engineer
The Walt Disney Company
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Lake Buena Vista • California • Florida • United States
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Salary
💰 $171,600 - $230,100 per year
Job Level
About the role
- You will be responsible for planning and leading research, development, and delivery related to advanced analytic data solutions, leveraging GenAI.
- You will design, build, and operate intelligent agent systems that power largescale, data intensive applications.
- This role focuses on architecting agentic workflows, integrating large language models (LLMs) with enterprise data platforms, and delivering production grade systems that reason, plan, and act across complex data environments.
- This includes working with business and technology leaders to understand scope and requirements, business needs, and data from across the Disney company.
- Other activities include planning, estimating, design, development, testing, production rollout, and sustainment activities.
- You will also need to consult and collaborate with project team members, lead design reviews, do hands-on development, and communicate with colleagues and leaders.
Requirements
- 10+ years experience in technology roles, preferably in data engineering, software engineering, and/or architecture
- Demonstrated experience working with a broad range of GenAI models, tools, and foundational concepts
- Experience architecting multi-agent systems with orchestrator-driven delegation and agent-to-agent handoffs
- Experience designing and building automated evaluation/scoring to reduce hallucinations and improve reliability at scale
- Experience designing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, including chunking strategies, vector databases and embedded model selection
- Experience leveraging Knowledge Graphs and structured ontologies as semantic memory layers
- Experience partnering with stakeholders to help define project scope based on technical capabilities and translate requirements into technical engineering tasks
- Experience defining solutions to sophisticated data engineering problems in support of advanced analytic processes
- Experience leading and deploying code using a source control product such as GitLab/GitHub and CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience building and integrating RESTful APIs, function-calling interfaces, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to equip agents with access to enterprise data, services, and real-time context
- Experience with defining and estimating level-of-effort for engineering activities
- Ability to communicate technical concepts and solutions to non-technical team members
- Demonstrated expertise using SQL and Python
- Proven ability to work collaboratively in a multi-team environment.
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
GenAIlarge language models (LLMs)multi-agent systemsautomated evaluationRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)Knowledge GraphsSQLPythonRESTful APIsCI/CD pipelines
Soft Skills
communicationcollaborationleadershipplanningproblem-solvingstakeholder engagementdesign reviewtechnical translationhands-on developmentproject estimation