Director, Product Engineering
Company: The Walt Disney Company (Corporate)
Location: Orlando
Posted on: October 11, 2024
Job Description:
At Disney, we're storytellers. We make the impossible, possible.
The Walt Disney Company is a world-class entertainment and
technological leader. Walt's passion was to continuously envision
new ways to move audiences around the world-a passion that remains
our touchstone in an enterprise that stretches from theme parks,
resorts and a cruise line to sports, news, movies and a variety of
other businesses. Uniting each endeavor is a commitment to creating
and delivering unforgettable experiences - and we're constantly
looking for new ways to enhance these exciting experiences.The
Enterprise Technology mission is to deliver technology solutions
that align to business strategies while enabling enterprise
efficiency and promoting cross-company collaborative innovation.
Our group drives competitive advantage by enhancing our consumer
experiences, enabling business growth, and advancing operational
excellence.The Global Information Security (GIS) group provides
services to protect the value and use of Disney's information
through collaboration, standardization, enforcement, and education
across The Walt Disney Company. - The main focus areas of this
group are:
- Reduce the risk of both accidental and malicious data
disclosure
- Identify, monitor, engage with complete inventory of
information
- Establish appropriate policies and procedures to be
followed
- Educate user community to minimize riskThe Director of Product
Engineering within the Security Architecture & Engineering team
leads team members to streamline delivery, improve quality and
reduce costs of support for our cybersecurity solutions. Our North
Star is to build and integration cybersecurity solutions that
empower our GIS partners and business segments to secure the
business thru a consistent SDLC approach and be future ready
without stifling teams' ability to be autonomous. When we do our
job accurately, we make it easier to deliver high quality
cybersecurity solutions that secure our guests and cast members. In
addition, a Director is expected to lead projects, grow leaders,
define strategy and inspire change.This is a leadership role, but
we are looking for someone who is an engineer at heart. Willingness
to learn new technologies and help improve our organization is
critical for success on this team because one day we are
integrating a SaaS solution to existing data and reporting systems,
the next we are designing and crafting a new product or API
endpoint.Responsibilities:
- Orchestrate the development and management of a high-performing
team comprising of managers, product experts, and software
engineers.
- Assume executive leadership responsibilities including
technical leadership, software engineering, and agile project
management.
- Understand requirements, delivering unified solutions, and
simplifying product portfolio.
- Lead all aspects of design engineering, automation, and
COTS/SaaS product integration efforts.
- Conduct problem analysis, prioritizing customer service, and
optimizing processes.
- Champion collaboration among team members to seamlessly
integrate expertise across various domains.
- Deliver innovative security solutions tailored to meet evolving
industry needs.
- Set the vision and lead the design and engineering of
cybersecurity solutions and products for The Walt Disney
Company.
- Operate, maintain, and engineer software products with close
business segment alignment.
- Ensure efficient, effective, and resilient architectures built
on well-defined SDLC processes.
- Document processes and engage partners.
- Perform sprint/release planning and code reviews.
- Assume operational responsibility and sustainment of
platforms.
- Engage with customers via support channels on cybersecurity
solutions.
- Drive delivery of products and further a business-enabling
DevOps culture.
- Lead and work collaboratively with local and remote team
memberQualifications:
- Minimum of 12 years of related work experience
- Experience leading engineering teams responsible for building
and deploying custom software products or services
- Experience as a software engineer or in product management
- Experience with on-premises and legacy systems, including COTS
servers, storage technologies, and standard Operating Systems
(Windows and Linux)
- Experience with CNAPP platforms and technologies
- Proficiency in API definition and integrations
- Expertise in optimizing algorithms and ETL processes
- In-depth knowledge of multi-cloud providers (AWS, Google,
Azure) and cloud services such as ECS, RDS, Lambda, Airwatch
- Detailed understanding of core internet protocols including
TCP/IP, DNS, and HTTP(s)
- Strong background in Agile implementation within a software
development lifecycle (SDLC)
- Familiarity with development technologies such as code
repositories, task ticketing, IDEs, pipelines, code analysis,
test-driven development, etc.
- Experience with programming languages such as Python, Java,
JavaScript, SQL, .NET, Go.
- Proficiency with container solutions like Docker and
Kubernetes.
- Experience working with Data platforms like Postgres, MSSQL,
Opensearch, Snowflake
- UI development experience using frameworks like Angular,
Django, Grafana, etc.
- Strong presentation and interpersonal skills, coupled with
problem-solving and analytical abilitiesEducation:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or
equivalent work experience#DisneyTech
The hiring range for this position in California is $184,300.00 -
$247,100.00 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into
account internal equity and also may vary depending on the
candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and
experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive
units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in
addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other
benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.
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