Manager, Data Engineering

Overview In this role you will lead the development and delivery of modern data products for Disney Experiences. You’ll manage a team that builds data pipelines ensuring freshness, completeness, security, and privacy, while aligning with the roadmap for new features. You’ll partner with stakeholders across the organization to translate needs into engineering work and influence data strategy in a fast-paced, matrixed environment. This position offers the chance to shape guest data capabilities and enable growth through data-driven insights. Compensation / Benefitsbonus and/or long-term incentive unitsmedical benefitscompetitive compensation package ResponsibilitiesPartner with stakeholders to translate business needs into well-scoped engineering workExecute against the data products strategy and roadmap for guest experiencesLead a team of engineers day-to-day and mentor team membersReinforce best practices and standards in data and engineeringServe as a technical resource on delivery practices for engineers and partnersSupport data collection strategies and onboarding while adhering to privacy requirementsStay current on product direction and privacy landscape impacting Guest data strategy Key requirements8+ years related work experience3+ years leading or mentoring engineersSolid knowledge of Data Architecture, Data Warehousing, Advanced Analytics, and Data Science implementationsExperience with Snowflake and BigQuery, with strong Snowflake knowledgeFamiliarity with Data Lakehouse architectures and Parquet/IcebergExperience designing or maintaining automated large-scale ETL/ELT pipelinesExperience with dbt and AirflowFamiliarity with data quality tools (Data Dog and Anomalo) and data security/privacy regulationsStrong communication skills; ability to present to technical and non-technical audiencesInclusive, collaborative leadership and ability to work in a matrixed organizationAbility to thrive in a fast-paced and changing environmentcommunicationcollaborationinclusive leadershipSnowflakeBigQueryParquet