Lead Data Platform Engineer

The Walt Disney Company

Lead Engineer for major development projects related to data & analytics solutions at Disney. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative business solutions.

Posted 6/10/2026full-timeBurbank • California, Florida, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $155,700 - $208,700 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AirflowAWSAzureCloudETLGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaPythonScalaSQLVault

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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 resources 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

What you’ll need

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
Experience with Snowflake

Benefits

Comp & perks

A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package
Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered

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Hard Skills & Tools

ScalaJavaPythonSQLETLELTdata integrationdimensional modelingdata warehousingCI/CD

Soft Skills

leadershipmentorshipcommunicationcollaborationtechnical guidance