Product & Engineering Manager
Company: The Walt Disney Company (Corporate)
Location: Orlando
Posted on: August 7, 2022
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Job Description:
"We make magic." That's our motto at Walt Disney Parks and
Resorts. And it permeates everything we do. At Disney, you will
help inspire that magic by allowing our teams to push the limits of
entertainment and create the never-before-seen!You will be a part
of the Core Systems and Platforms team within the Enterprise
Technology organization, and will join our team will be part of a
data transformation journey to facilitate and enable the ongoing
quality and delivery of well governed metadata about The Walt
Disney Company's IP assets. You will be responsible for the quality
of delivery of existing applications as well as new features and
applications that take advantage of both on premise and cloud
hosted platforms. You also must forge and maintain strong
relationships with the a partner product team within the Corporate
Brand Management as well as the content supply chain within the
Disney Media and Distribution teams.In this role you will
facilitate scope definition, solutioning and prioritization for
execution on a wide range of projects for the Characters, Titles
and More (CTaM). In addition you will help manage the product
backlog as well as facilitate support and troubleshooting of
customer impacting issues and work required to maintain uptime and
availability of CTaM.
Responsibilities :
--- Overall solution definition and delivery schedule for multiple
features and projects associated to the CTaM product
--- Partner and advise business and peer technical teams across
TWDC on roadmaps and technical capabilities of the CTaM
Platform
--- Maintain solution architecture and target delivery state
documentation
--- Set and maintain the backlog and executation schedule for
outsourced nearshore / offshore development team
--- Program and Technical Project Management - establishes and
manages project plans, timelines and budgets.
--- Drive for on-time delivery of all aspects of projects within
the CTaM Program. Consistently evaluate and improve the project
plan, course correct for incoming/new prioritization and
dependencies.
--- Oversees the requirements process; ensures traceability of
high-level requirements throughout the program. Participates in
data analysis activities as needed.
--- Leads or participates in the assessment of potential new
opportunities, analyzing scope at a high-level and work with
Business, Technology or Functional managers to agree on project
approach, business cases, risk assessments, funding requirements,
and resource/capability needs.
--- Accountable for accurate forecasting, tracking and adherence to
overall CTaM program budget. Understand and articulate challenges,
assumptions, timelines and expenses across the projects and at the
program level.
--- Manages project variance and root cause analysis, develops risk
mitigation / issue management plans with the objective to meet the
financial targets.
--- Ensures effective, proactive and open communications,
horizontally and vertically, in order to achieve transparency and
clarity of program goals, progress and issues.
--- Supports and actively works to create a healthy work team
environment- bringing a measured response along with transparency
and discipline to active discussions and communications.
--- Ensure the technical currencty of the CTaM platform is kept up
to date and considered as part of overall roadmap and planning
Basic Qualifications :
--- 5+ Years in Technical Project Management, Program Management or
Software Engineering Management roles for large/enterprise software
companies including financial, technical and business stakeholder
executive facilitation
--- Proven experience in managing complex technical projects
(complex in terms of the number of stakeholders, application and
implementation are simple)
--- 5+ Years in big data platform, Messaging Platforms, MDM, Cloud
and microservices architecture
--- Strong background in managing complex interdependent data
workflows to enable Master Data Management and Data Quality-'s
--- Strong understanding of data governance and data messaging
platforms including Cloud
--- Minimum of 5 years enterprise experience with data pipelines,
integration, data sharing and data quality
--- Functional knowledge of modern data integration and sharing
techniques
--- Golden records / Master data management platforms such as
Informatica MDM / DQ
--- Unstructured data integration (batch, micro-batches, real-time
data streaming) across Messaging, RDMSs, NoSQL (MongoDB, Hbase)
--- Experienced in "Data" project managements using Agile,
Iterative and/or Waterfall SDLC Methodologies
--- Experienced in extracting and documenting data and analytic
requirements, working across all levels of users from senior
executives to analysts
--- Creation, and presentation of complicated interdependent
solution architecture and detailed technical design
documentation
--- Track record of taking ownership and driving results
--- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills with strong
writing and speaking skills
--- Ability to think both strategically and tactically with good
attention to detail
--- Demonstrated ability to manage large programs with multiple
projects - prioritization, planning and task delegation
--- Strong program/project financial management skills including
forecasting
--- Experience with resource allocation tracking across
program/projects
--- Proven experience in managing complex technical projects with
complexity across stakeholders, mutli-functional teams,
requirements, and implementations.
--- Ability to think logically, communicate clearly, and be well
organized
--- At least 7 years of hands-on software development in large
scale and complex integration environments
Required Education :
--- 4-year degree or equivalent experience in Program/Portfolio
Management
Additional Information :
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