The Walt Disney Company · 9 hours ago
Staff Data Operations Engineer
Orlando, FL, USA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$129K/yr - $173K/yr
7+ years expThe Walt Disney Company is a world-class entertainment and technological leader, constantly seeking new ways to enhance consumer experiences. The Staff Data Operations Engineer will manage and oversee technologies supporting various data and analytic platforms, ensuring service delivery and operational excellence.
Amusement Park and ArcadeAnimationConsumer GoodsDigital MediaE-CommerceMedia and EntertainmentMulti-level MarketingPerforming ArtsResorts
Responsibilities
Act as the technology subject matter expert, partnering with technology stakeholders and clients to both address issues and recommend/implement enhancements
Investigate and resolve production related issues in a timely manner from end user (UI) to persistence layer
Identify and mitigate risks to the service delivery and proactively address and resolve issues before they impact service levels
Drive the technical recovery of major system outages, interfacing with numerous stakeholders including external vendors or outsourced service delivery teams
Develop and maintain technical documentation to help ensure that support can be efficiently performed and the impact of future requests can be assessed
Monitor service performance and recommend areas of focus for continuous improvement initiatives, including application performance management
Participate in on-call schedule or rotations (where applicable)
Oversee vendor/partners in the timely resolution of incidents/problems/requests, ensuring service level and quality targets are met
Gather requirements for minor enhancements and oversee the resultant product from the vendors
Implement continuous improvement on existing technical solutions
Drive the adoption of agile development methodologies, focusing on improving the velocity and quality of delivered work products through DevOps practices and automated testing
Partner with the application security team on the implementation of 'security by design,' ensuring that all solutions meet security standards
Work collaboratively with other teams (QA, UX, Release Project Managers) to ensure that all project deliverables are on time and high quality
Participate in periodic problem analysis meetings and post implementation reviews to document learnings and ensure the continuous improvement of the IT services
Design and implement technology solutions in partnership with Solution Architects, Product & Engineering Managers in support of business objectives
Be a champion for operational excellence by ensuring technology delivery and support functions are efficient, easy to execute, simple to consume and effectively measured
Ensure application solutions meet business expectations through capacity, performance and availability management
Coordinate the development and on-going maintenance of Disaster Recovery plans
Develop and maintain the technology currency roadmap
Help define engineering support best practices and provide technical mentorship
Oversee the respective security and vulnerability management activities
Research third party products and solutions to provide added business value
Recommend and initiate New Technology analysis for application initiatives
Maintain a moderate level of technical expertise by keeping up-to-date with the latest applicable technical changes/ knowledge
Maintain awareness of standards, guidelines, industry trends, etc
Qualification
Required
Minimum of 7 years of related work experience, to include:
5+ years of experience participating in the full range of development activities (including but not limited to: code deployment, load/performance testing, integration testing)
Deep technical SAP, data pipeline, Snowflake expertise in the respective application platform/service
Participation in formal change management processes
Experience working within an agile framework
Business acumen, with deep expertise in the Finance, and HCM domain(s) as well as strong skills in the technology that supports the domain(s)
Proven negotiating and consensus building abilities
Experience with vendor management
Experience with a variety of Software Development Lifecycle methodologies across waterfall and agile
Exemplary communications skills
A self-starter, who can effectively navigate a complex organizational structure, achieving results through influence and collaboration
Establish and manage effective working relationships in a matrix environment with other departments, groups and staff with whom work must be coordinated or interfaced. Comfortable influencing to achieve desired outcomes
A person that can decide and act without having the total picture and is comfortable handling risk and uncertainty
HCM domain and data technical expertise will be essential, as delivery will be accomplished in a matrixed environment of internal and external partners, and suppliers
Practical knowledge and applied experience related to development principles. This is a hands-on position with regards to people and code
A practitioner of the Service Management principles and can effectively proceed through review boards and other SA activities
Data Platforms
SAP HANA, Snowflake, DB2
AWS Service knowledge like S3, Lambda
Data Warehouse/ Data Modeling concepts
SQL & Java scripting
Data Integrations
Informatica IDMC/PowerCenter or any ETL tools
Data Pipeline Concepts - ingestion/transformation
Information protection/Encryption
SAP SLT
Application Ecosystems
SAP S4
SAP S4 Datasources
BI Tools like SAP Business Object, SAP Analysis for Office, Tableau
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
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
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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
Christine M. McCarthy
Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Jamie Power
SVP, Addressable Sales
Recent News
2026-01-20
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