The Walt Disney Company

Lead Solutions Engineer

The Walt Disney Company

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • California

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Salary

💰 $138,900 - $186,200 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

SDLC

About the role

  • Develop and maintain operational dashboards in Conviva, Datadog, Snowflake, etc.
  • Establish channel-specific key performance metrics (KPM) to track channel and deliver monthly KPM reports to diverse audience of advertising stakeholders
  • Maintain detailed operational documentation for both internal and external consumption.
  • Investigate complex issues, diagnose product bugs, and resolve requests
  • Work with team to develop strategies to automate operational DAI workflows for live event management and addressable linear programming
  • Develop strong partnerships with ad sales, account managers, engineering, infrastructure, design, and production teams to deliver strategic and tactical channel objectives.
  • Assist in creating channel-specific onboarding and cross-training documentation
  • Provide live event management support during non-business hours.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in digital advertising operations or support, preferably with a focus in video advertising technology.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Broadcasting, Digital Media, related technical fields, or equivalent experience
  • Experience with OTT streaming technologies including HLS and MPEG-DASH
  • Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate and partner across multiple teams and organizations
  • Strong understanding of digital advertising specs including VAST, VMAP, SCTE, etc.
  • Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate complex concepts to technical and unacquainted audiences
  • Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
  • Strong presentation and documentation skills including experience working with Confluence, PowerPoint, and LucidChart
  • Strong analytical and critical thinking skills
  • Experience with live event management for high concurrency events
  • Experience with digital advertising systems and ecosystems
  • Experience with terminal commands, and scripting languages for task automation and debugging
  • Experience tracing ad calls using proxy and debugging tools to decode VAST
  • Experience with ad event tracking, log-level data processing, and reporting for ad campaign performance.