Director, Data Engineering
Company: Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology
Location: New York
Posted on: October 9, 2024
Job Description:
Disney Entertainment & ESPN TechnologyOn any given day at Disney
Entertainment & ESPN Technology, we're reimagining ways to create
magical viewing experiences for the world's most beloved stories
while also transforming Disney's media business for the future.
Whether that's evolving our streaming and digital products in new
and immersive ways, powering worldwide advertising and distribution
to maximize flexibility and efficiency, or delivering Disney's
unmatched entertainment and sports content, every day is a moment
to make a difference to partners and to hundreds of millions of
people around the world.The Product & Data Engineering team is
responsible for end-to-end development for Disney's world-class
consumer-facing products, including streaming platforms Disney+,
Hulu, and ESPN+, and digital products & experiences across ESPN,
Marvel, Disney Studios, NatGeo, and ABC News. The team drives
innovation at scale for millions of consumers around the world
across Apple, Android, Smart TVs, game consoles, and the web, with
our platforms powering core experiences like personalization,
search, messaging and data.A few reasons why we think you'd love
working for Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology
- Building the future of Disney's media business: DE&E
Technologists are designing and building the infrastructure that
will power Disney's media, advertising, and distribution businesses
for years to come.
- Reach & Scale: The products and platforms this group builds and
operates delight millions of consumers every minute of every day -
from Disney+ and Hulu, to ABC News and Entertainment, to ESPN and
ESPN+, and much more.
- Innovation: We develop and execute groundbreaking products and
techniques that shape industry norms and enhance how audiences
experience sports, entertainment & news.The Disney Entertainment &
ESPN Technology Data Solutions team creates data products for our
leading brands such as Disney+, Hulu, ESPN, and ABC. We sit at the
intersection between data technology, entertainment and
sports.About The RoleAs the Director of Data Engineering you would
implement the product strategy for DEET's media services. These
data capabilities drive world class data capabilities for the
organization. This position is responsible for the collection,
transformation and delivery of data for many use cases - such as
acquisition and identity data. Our products include analytical,
machine learning, reporting and system feedback capabilities.The
Director will lead multiple high functioning data engineering teams
delivering on the following mission to:
- Be the single source of truth for calculations and metrics
- Deliver a unified data model that allows clear slice across the
organization.
- Enable self service analytics capabilities around product and
business performance
- Build and support the data models and data pipelines that
prepare the core data setsThe ideal candidate has significant data
engineering and leadership background with demonstrated
collaboration experience with engineers, business users, product
managers and exec stakeholders.Responsibilities and Duties of the
Role
- Build high impact data products focused on business, analytical
and ML use cases.
- Manage, build and grow the data engineering teams. Offer
organizational design thinking to best structure the team and equip
them for success in their goals
- Drive data architecture and systems planning
- Translate requirements between product management and business
stakeholders
- Drive strong technical design and implementation practices with
your engineering teams
- Define the vision and strategy for data engineering products
and capabilities aligned to overall organizational and business
objectives
- Promote and develop engineering best practices, guidelines,
procedures and repeatable, agile and scalable frameworks
- Develop systems thinking focus for your teams including:
- the creation of clear specifications framework,
- architectural plan covering systems, data and solutions
architectures,
- acceptance criteria and success measures,
- instrumentation and Service Level capabilities,
- Quality tooling for test driven development and ongoing data
quality testing in production,
- Measurement of data storage/query cost,
- Frame accessibility/usability tooling.
- Ensure products/solutions are built to address core business
questions and operational needs, actively bring the product back to
the business model and strategy
- Build a network. Establish and grow relationships with Disney
Streaming executives and senior leaders across data, technology,
product and business teamsBasic Qualifications
- Demonstrated leadership skills and ability attract, build and
develop successful engineering teams
- 12+ years in data or software engineering with significant team
management.
- Successful track record of building data products and
capabilities
- Highly analytical and collaborative qualities with strong
technical, strategic and problem-solving skills
- Experience solving problems in an ambiguous environment
- Experience utilizing both qualitative analysis and quantitative
analysis techniques and familiarity with common data science models
and approaches to problem solving. Generally: the ability to plan
for what analysts and data scientists need to deliver
successfully
- Ability to thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced operational
environment, drive change, and collaborate with a variety of
individuals and organizational partners
- Experience demonstrating leadership, self-motivation,
accountability, and being a standout colleague.
- Executive-level communication skills including abstraction,
summarization and conceptualization.
- Practical experience with agile methodologies and scrum
- Self-motivated with pragmatic approach to deliver quality
solutions iteratively and intellectual curiosity to grow and
learnPreferred Qualifications
- Content / Media / Streaming / Social Media or similar industry
experience
- Deep data experience
- Management or Strategy consulting background
- Knowledge of SQL and one or more big data warehouse
technologies e.g. Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift
- Experience with delivering large scale enterprise applications
using big data tech such as S3, Hadoop, Spark
- Experience or knowledge of No-SQL - DB's - Cassandra, MongoDB,
Redis, Couchbase
- Experience building high performance data models and large
distributed cube environments. Technologies such as Druid a big
plus.
- Experience with reporting and visualization tools such as
Tableau, Looker or other visualization toolsRequired Education
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering,
Mathematics, or related field, or equivalent industry
experience
- Master's Degree a plusAdditional Information#DISNEYTECH
The hiring range for this position in Santa Monica, CA is
$199,000.00.00 to $266,800.00 per year, in San Francisco, CA is
$217,900.00 to $292,200.00 per year, and in Seattle, WA and New
York, NY is $208,400.00 to $279,500.00 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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