Executive Director, Software Engineering

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The Disney Entertainment and ESPN Data Solutions team creates data products for our leading brands such as Disney+, Hulu, ESPN, and ABC, and works within the Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology group. We sit at the intersection between data technology, entertainment and sports.

As the Director of Data Engineering you would implement the product strategy for DEET’s media and subscription 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 subscriber and product performance. 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:

● Create data products that provide the single source of truth for business focused domains like marketing, compliance, subscriptions, and product performance

● Drive the Data Reliability Engineering teams

● 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 sets around

The ideal candidate has significant data engineering and leadership background with demonstrated collaboration experience with engineers, business users, product managers and exec stakeholders.

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-Focus on major areas of work, typically 20% or more of role

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• Build high impact data products focused on business, analytical and ML use cases.
• Coordinate Data Reliability Engineering practice with follow the sun teams around the world
• 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 while leveraging architects 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 teams

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