Principal Software Architect

Job Summary:

At Disney Experiences Technology, 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. The Disney Experiences Technology team is responsible for the end-to-end digital and physical Guest experience for all technology & digital-led initiatives across the Attractions & Entertainment, Food & Beverage, Resorts & Transportation, and Merchandise lines of business as well as other initiatives including the MyDisneyExperience app and Hey, Disney!

Do you love data? Are you a supportive leader who can drive excellence in delivery? Come join us! We are looking for a Principal Software Architect to lead the design vision of data products and solutions. You will lead all aspects of assigned data initiatives working with multiple engineering and product studios. You will sit in the Data Products & Platform team within the Technology & Digital organization for Disney Parks, Experiences, and Products.

You Will:

• Lead in work intake discussions to ensure solutions are well-architected to meet standards and requirements (e.g., SLA, resiliency, security, and privacy requirements)

• Provide architectural input for estimates for and scope of work

• Lead with clear communication, documents, and diagrams that define, guide, and influence engineering and product teams

• Possess expertise in current programming languages and technologies, with strong skills in writing code and programming tasks

• Lead projects that may be used in commercial and end-user applications or focus on software and tools supporting infrastructure and technology platforms

• Lead and influence the direction and prioritization of the design and development of highly scalable software systems and applications

• Engage in the estimation and planning of highly sophisticated scalable projects and their budget allocations

• Continuously monitor and evaluate emerging technologies within your area of expertise to drive informed decision-making and recommendations

• Maintain productive engagement with partners to ensure solutions are right-sized and strategically aligned to the overall data strategy and architecture principles

You Have:

• 10+ years of experience with the delivery of data solutions

• Deep technical expertise in data, platforms, and tools—including AWS, Snowflake, dbt, SQL & SQL optimization, data modeling, Python, RESTful APIs, near real-time stream processing, ETL & ELT approaches, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/CDK)

• Strong problem solving and influencing skills, able to critically think through and elegantly address logic problems with code

• Ability to navigate in the gray easily and work independently to guide the design and implementation of solutions and strategies

• Excellent communicator and partnership skills with the ability to interface and influence across the organization, including executives

• Experience creating architectural diagrams and artifacts that clearly and consistently define solutions used by product managers and engineering teams

• Ability to create reference implementations used as initial working solutions

• Experience working in the hospitality, travel, or entertainment industry

• Solid grasp and believer of agile development approaches, including DevOps concepts

Required Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience

Preferred Education:

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience

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The hiring range for this position in CA is $184,300.00 to $247,100.00 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.