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Lead Data Engineer

Job ID 10155437 Location Orlando, Florida, United States Business Disney Experiences Date posted Aug. 26, 2026
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Job Summary:

About The Role & Team

Do you want to lead the development of tools that data engineers and business users rely on every day to build, ship, and govern data products at Disney Experiences? Helix is our enterprise data platform, powering everything from personalization to operational reporting across the business. Helix is scaling fast, and the tools engineers use to build on it need to keep pace.
Own the data engineering frameworks and capabilities for Orbit and Book of Work, defining how data sources and data products are configured, built, deployed, observed, and operated on Helix. You’ll set the technical design, write and review code, and partner with Data Architecture on key architectural decisions. This is a hands-on lead role. You’re accountable for the code that gets built, its quality, and what ultimately gets deployed.
This role sits in the Data Products & Platforms organization in Disney Experiences Technology and reports to the Director of Platform Strategy & Governance.
What You’ll Do: 
  • Own the build and integration of Orbit and Book of Work, including the reusable pipeline frameworks and engineering capabilities that take data sources and products from definition through build, deployment, and ongoing operation on Helix.
  • Design automation and AI capabilities that translate intent into data engineering action, reducing the manual steps between an identified need and a production-ready data source or product.
  • Design how application data, metadata, engineering artifacts, and workflow state move and persist across the platform to enable reliable data pipelines, data product development, automation, and end-to-end engineering workflows.
  • Write and review production-quality code for reusable data engineering frameworks and platform capabilities, including pipeline orchestration, data processing, transformation, services, APIs, metadata, and platform integrations.
  • Set the design standards and QA processes for both tools, ensuring data remains compatible, operable, and reliable across every connection, transmission, and storage system it touches.
  • Analyze how internal and external needs are evolving and recommend changes to systems and storage to keep pace.
  • Help scope, estimate, and plan large, complex projects, including budget.
  • Track emerging technologies and bring back concrete, informed recommendations.
  • Own the technical health of Orbit and Book of Work in production, including observability, incident escalation, root-cause analysis, and improvements that prevent recurring operational issues.
What You’ll Need: 
  •  7+ years of related work experience.
  • Strong data engineering skills in Python and SQL, with scripting experience for data extraction, transformation, automation, and building performant data solutions.
  • Experience across relational, NoSQL, cloud, and modern data platform technologies, including environments such as Snowflake, SQL Server, Postgres, DynamoDB, Redis, and AWS services such as Lambda, Kinesis, DMS, and AppFlow.
  • A strong focus on developer experience, including intuitive workflows, sensible defaults, observability, and reducing cognitive load for engineers.
  • Experience using AI, ML, or automation to remove meaningful manual work from data pipeline or data product delivery workflows.
  • Comfort setting technical direction and design standards for a team and defending those decisions.
  • Experience working in agile environments and partnering across engineering and business teams as requirements shift.
  • Familiarity with Snowflake and modern data platform tooling, such as Snowpipe Streaming and Snowsight, with the drive to keep growing into new data engineering tools and methods.

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.



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The hiring range for this position in FL is $148,300 - $198,800 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.

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About Disney Experiences:

Disney Experiences brings the magic of Disney stories and franchises to life through theme parks, resorts, cruise ships, unique vacation experiences, products and more around the world. Disney shines in the travel industry with six resort destinations in the United States, Europe and Asia; a top-rated cruise line; a popular vacation ownership program; and an award-winning guided family adventure business. Plus, Disney's global consumer products operations include the world's leading licensing business; the world's largest children's publishing brands; one of the world's largest licensors of games across all platforms; and Disney store locations around the world and on the web.

About The Walt Disney Company:

The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise that includes three core business segments: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Experiences. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family. Disney’s stories, characters and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe. With operations in more than 40 countries, our employees and cast members work together to create entertainment experiences that are both universally and locally cherished.

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