About the role

Engineering Manager leading a team to design and build solutions for Disney's media products. Overseeing cross-domain initiatives focusing on big data and scalable applications.

Responsibilities

Coach, mentor and motivate team to follow technical standards and best practices and build best technical platform
Inspire individual and business success.
Define strategies, priorities, and expectations.
Provide continuous coaching and feedback.
Develop self and others and support career aspirations.
Demonstrate care and compassion.
Create an environment where Company values are experienced
Contribute to organization processes that improve velocity and impact of business initiatives.
Ensure Release Management standards and processes are followed by the team
Build a constant learning culture to improve innovation and team productivity.
Grow brand awareness of the team.
Practice effective art of delegation and ensure team completes yearly OKR goals.
Optimize team's Capex and Opex budget to improve Company's bottomline.
Collaborate with fellow engineers to keep the team’s technology radar and architecture principles aligned to the industry and needs of our users.
Deliver multiple projects utilizing an Agile methodology.
Provide accurate estimation of product initiatives, sprint roadmap, delivery plan and forecasts.
Take a high ownership, self-sufficient, hands-on position on the team to collaborate and drive quality, maintain application stability.
Be fully aware of product requirements and coach, mentor, motivate the team to provide correct solutions.
Have awareness of end-to-end Organization's engineering architecture.

Hold a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Engineering, or another technical field
Have 8+ years of management experience in software engineering in a large enterprise environment using Java, Python, Javascript, including familiarity with modern web frameworks and platforms (e.g., Spring, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka)
Have 8+ years of management experience in big data application development in a large enterprise environment using Java, Scala, Python, including familiarity with modern big data frameworks and platforms (e.g., Spark, Flink, Singlestore, Kafka, Nifi and AWS big data technologies)
Be able to demonstrate significant experience working with relational databases, SQL and newer NoSQL data stores as well as event streaming platforms
Demonstrated ability with cloud infrastructure technologies, including Terraform, K8S, Spinnaker, IAM, ALB, etc.
Have a strong interest in open source technology
Knowledge of building highly available and scalable services
Passion about technologies and openness to interdisciplinary work
Possess good communication skills and enjoy mentoring and helping others to succeed as a team
Care about your craft and have opinions about the “right” way to do things with technology.

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.