The Walt Disney Company · 3 hours ago
Senior Principal Software Engineer, Enterprise Tools and Data
Glendale, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$224K/yr - $300K/yr
12+ years expThe Walt Disney Company is a global organization focused on building and advancing the technological backbone for Disney’s media business. They are seeking a Senior Principal Engineer to shape the future of enterprise tools and influence strategy across customer relationship management and order management systems, while mentoring other engineers and ensuring quality code delivery.
Amusement Park and ArcadeAnimationConsumer GoodsDigital MediaE-CommerceMedia and EntertainmentMulti-level MarketingPerforming ArtsResorts
Responsibilities
Influence strategy to address internal or external business objectives
Leads highly visible multidisciplinary projects or initiatives, providing thought leadership and influences decision making
Proactively identifies and solves complex and business critical matters that impact the direction of over
Serve as a cross-functional thought leader, partnering with senior executives in Data, Product, Engineering, Sales to influence company-wide enterprise tools (CRM, financial system (HARP, billing), order management, Databricks etc.) strategy and investment
Mentor and elevate technical leaders across teams, fostering a culture of innovation, rigor, and excellence in Enterprise system area
Qualification
Required
12 years of experience in software engineering, architecture or relevant field
Strong data integration area experience
Prior experience in designing Order management system or financial system
Strong technical expertise including many data technologies such as Databricks, Spark, Flink, Kinesis, Python (Pandas, NumPy), Java, Snowflake, AWS Glue, AWS Athena, Single Store, Airflow, Springboot
Strong experience working with AWS cloud and its technologies
Bachelor's degree in computer science, Computer Information Systems, Electrical Engineering, or relevant field
Preferred
Collaborate with business stakeholders to define data strategies that align with the organization's objectives
Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including data engineers, analysts, and business stakeholders, to ensure that data solutions meet business requirements and align with technological capabilities
Create data models that illustrate how data elements relate to each other to guide database design and development
Design ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes to extract data from various sources, transform it into a usable format, and load it into target databases or data warehouses
Identify bottlenecks, optimize queries, and implement caching mechanisms to enhance data processing speed
Work to integrate disparate data sources e.g Databricks, S3, Snowflake including ODS (Operational Data store) system and external application programming interfaces (APIs) of Ad-Platform, enabling organizations to derive insights from a holistic view of their data
Strong big data and data quality experience
Experience in Ad – Platform domain, streaming technologies
Benefits
A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package
The full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
Company
The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company started as a cartoon studio and evolves into sports coverage and television shows.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$11BKey Investors
Citibank
2020-04-13Post Ipo Debt· $5B
2020-03-20Post Ipo Debt· $6B
1978-01-06IPO
Leadership Team
Robert Iger
CEO
Christine M. McCarthy
Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Recent News
2025-12-24
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