Data Engineering Mgr

Job Posting Title:

Data Engineering Mgr

Req ID:

10151789

Job Description:

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

Technology is at the heart of Disney’s past, present, and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more – all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney’s media business globally.

The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses. We are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Company’s media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world.

Here are a few reasons why we think you’d love working here:

• Building the future of Disney’s media: Our Technologists are designing and building the products and platforms that will power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.
• Reach, Scale & Impact: More than ever, Disney’s technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans' connections with the company’s brands and stories. Disney+. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC News…and many more. These products and brands – and the unmatched stories, storytellers, and events they carry – matter to millions of people globally.
• Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.

About Commerce, Data & Identity

Commerce, Data & Identity provides the core product management functions for areas crucial to Disney’s media businesses. These include initiatives and products that power digital commerce, identity, and growth, as well as those that reach uniquely across The Walt Disney Company enterprise, such as messaging and privacy, among others. Additionally, it is responsible for the data engineering, science, and products for Disney Entertainment & ESPN, along with their interconnection with other parts of The Walt Disney Company.

Job Summary

The Identity Engineering team provides critical consumer facing access and identification services across The Walt Disney Company (TWDC) business units. Nearly every digital consumer experience across the company relies on Identity Platform for mission critical business operations, including booking Disney Parks and Resort vacations, playing ESPN Fantasy Football, buying products from Shop Disney and many more. These identity services are responsible for over 300 million guest and fan accounts, and billions of transactions per year.

As part of the team, you will be tackling cutting edge issues that come with cloud-based infrastructures, platform resiliency requirements, security, and data migrations at scale. These challenges are regularly given on tight timelines, and we are looking for experienced engineering team members able to make the right decisions and drive them to execution. This position will help the team navigate the changing technology landscape.

The Identity Engineering team is composed of teams of engineers that work to ensure we deliver a stable platform to our business partners that facilitates a world class and compliant registration, login, recovery, and permissions experience.

Engineers work as a team to set a direction that continually seeks to improve on quality, performance and availability by leveraging automation and best practice. This position will serve to help to lead the team in the changing technology landscape, helping set the platform direction and influence the architectural decisions we are making. This position works in partnership with peers across Product, Project Management, and Engineering. This position is also a key element of team’s composition and growth strategy, helping to provide solid mentorship, technical guidance and leadership enabling the team to improve longer term velocity.

Our team…

• Collaborative and dynamic
• We embrace agile practices
• Work as a mostly backend service team
• Continuous integration/automated testing
• Frequent working software demos

About you…

• Enjoy working in a team environment
• Have a strong sense of ownership and pride in your work
• Are self-motivated and detail oriented
• Are driven to produce great experiences

Responsibilities

• Work as part of a team
• Drive stand-ups and other sprint meetings
• Help set platform direction and influence architectural decisions
• Understand product requirements, translate to sprint stories, leading the team through execution
• Define, review, document, and estimate LOE for software design and development
• Define and prioritize sprint work for the team
• Work with other leaders on cross-functional projects
• Weekly 1:1 with team members to guide them through personal and career development
• Annual review for direct reports

Required Skills

• Ability to hire, mentor and lead a team of engineers, collaborate and drive organizational change
• Expert level understanding of Java Virtual Machine based web services, and RESTful framework and GraphQL
• Extensive experience in developing high quality code using technologies such as Java, Kotlin, Scala
• Clear communicator (written and verbal) with great communication and collaboration skills with both technical and non-technical audiences
• Ability to focus on deadlines and deliverables
• Knowledge and understanding of Application Lifecycle Management, Software Development and Agile Development/Testing practices and methodologies
• Ability to effectively collaborate with Product, Program and Support organizations to build and maintain a product roadmap
• Assist in the preparation of presentations and formal analysis in support of executive decision making and strategy development

Educational Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science (or related field)

Experience with some or all of the following:

• Java, Kotlin, Scala
• Spring Framework/http4s
• MySQL
• Amazon DynamoDB/ScyllaDB
• TestNG/Junit/Weaver
• Docker/ Kubernetes
• Maven/Gradle/SBT
• Jenkins/Spinnaker
• GitLab/GitHub
• Kafka/AWS Kinesis/AWS SQS/AWS SNS
• OpenTelemetry/NewRelic/DataDog/AWS CloudWatch
• AWS CloudFormation/Terraform

Required Education & Experience:

• 8+ years of relevant software development experience
• 2+ years of technical management experience
• 2+ years of cloud application architecture and engineering

Job Posting Segment:

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

Job Posting Primary Business:

Ad Platforms

Primary Job Posting Category:

Data Engineering

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Bangalore, India

Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Date Posted:

2026-07-28