Software Engineering Manager
The Walt Disney Company
“We Power the Magic!” That’s our motto at Disney Experiences (DX). Our team creates world-class immersive digital experiences for the Company’s premier vacation brands including Disney’s Parks & Resorts worldwide, Disney Cruise Line, Aulani, a Disney Resort & Spa, and Disney Vacation Club.
DX is seeking a Software Engineering Manager who has passion for leading the delivery and execution of various projects in the roadmap of advancing our core commerce platform. We are looking for someone that will lead engineers, project and product managers and collaborate with other business and tech teams to develop, deliver and maintain mission critical applications.
**You will:**
+ Lead and mentor world class delivery teams consisting of full stack software engineers, web developers, application architects, product managers and scrum masters.
+ Own application development and delivery for multiple large projects.
+ Collaborate with other tech teams, businesses across sites for project deliverables, develop platform vision and roadmap.
+ Develop and present project statuses, project concepts and platform roadmaps to senior leaders.
+ Be responsible for technical analysis, effort estimation, product, and system design, evaluating architectural fit and compliance, resource schedules, delivery milestones and overall product quality.
+ Display technical leadership and oversight of implementation and deployment planning, system integration, process improvements, quality assurance, delivery, operations, and sustainability of technical solutions.
+ Resolve conflicts by demonstrating leadership and appropriate decision-making competencies.
+ Enforce and grow a culture focused on quality and experience improvements.
+ Ensure multiple concurrent ongoing projects and team objectives are resourced effectively to accomplish goals.
+ Meet with stakeholders, vendor partners and customers on a recurring basis to review team priorities, execution and pertinent business/delivery updates.
+ Effectively manage project/solution timeline and financials including budget, cost, invoices and contracts.
+ Support on-call response to critical operational issues; be able to work beyond normal hours and support implementation transition activities and hyper-care shifts as needed.
**Required Skills & Experience:**
+ 8+ years of development experience, preferably full-stack.
+ Additional 5+ years managing engineering and technology delivery teams.
+ Demonstrated knowledge and working experience with highly-scalable architectures, patterns, and technologies, specifically Java, REST, NoSQL and Event-Driven Architecture.
+ Experience creating architecture designs that incorporate resiliency and performance.
+ Experience managing a globally distributed delivery team utilizing Agile methodologies.
+ Good troubleshooting skills for triaging problems in production and test environments
+ Experience in a large media, technology or internet company.
+ Success at achieving sophisticated technology goals on-time and on-budget.
+ A comfort level with complex, matrixed organizations containing a certain amount of ambiguity.
+ Excellent written and verbal communications, proven ability to develop and deliver presentations geared for Executive Management.
+ Proven experience managing software development lifecycle platforms and tools.
**Preferred Skills & Experience:**
+ Experience in the commerce space and products / pricing / inventory domains
+ Experience in travel and hospitality/hotel industries
**Required Education:**
+ Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems or related equivalent experience.
**Preferred Education:**
+ Master’s degree in computer science, Information Systems or related equivalent experience.
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**Job ID:** 10119695
**Location:** Orlando,Florida
**Job Posting Company:** Disney Experiences
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