Principal Data Integration Solution Architect

Department Description

At Disney, we’re storytellers. We make the impossible, possible. The Walt Disney Company is a world-class entertainment and technological leader. Walt’s passion was to continuously envision new ways to move audiences around the world—a passion that remains our touchstone in an enterprise that stretches from theme parks, resorts and a cruise line to sports, news, movies and a variety of other businesses. Uniting each endeavor is a commitment to creating and delivering unforgettable experiences — and we’re constantly looking for new ways to enhance these exciting experiences.

The Enterprise Technology mission is to deliver technology solutions that align to business strategies while enabling enterprise efficiency and promoting cross-company collaborative innovation. Our group drives competitive advantage by enhancing our consumer experiences, enabling business growth, and advancing operational excellence.

The Data Solutions group is part of the Enterprise Technology organization. We are responsible for architecting, developing and managing the data platforms, data integrations and reporting and analytics solutions for The Walt Disney Company’s enterprise business data. We are experts at architecting and building highly scalable data and analytics solutions that meet the business requirements of the groups across the company we support.

The Data Solutions & Products group is part of Enterprise Technology. We are responsible for designing and developing enterprise solutions and managing a diverse portfolio of products and tools related to Data, Analytics and Automation used by business teams across The Walt Disney Company.

The Integration Architect position is one of the key architect roles on the team. You will have the opportunity to lead and influence the architecture of many complex and high-profile projects that will shape the future of data, reporting & analytics, AI and automation for The Walt Disney Company. This role is focused on data integrations across data sources systems, data lakehouses, and business applications in support of multiple data domains across the company including HR, Finance, Sourcing, Security and Legal.

You will be working in a challenging, fast-paced, highly collaborative and rewarding environment, as a member of product and project teams that work closely with each other and with our business partners to deliver innovative and industry-leading business solutions.

Team Description:

The Data Solutions group is part of the Enterprise Technology organization. We are responsible for architecting, developing and managing the data platforms, data integrations and reporting and analytics solutions for The Walt Disney Company’s enterprise business data. We are experts at architecting and building highly scalable data and analytics solutions that meet the business requirements of the groups across the company we support.

The Data Solutions & Products team is part of Enterprise Technology. We are responsible for designing and developing enterprise solutions and managing a diverse portfolio of products and tools related to Data, Analytics and Automation used by business teams across The Walt Disney Company.

The Integration Architect position is one of the key architect roles on the team. You will have the opportunity to lead and influence the architecture of many complex and high-profile projects that will shape the future of data, reporting & analytics, AI and automation for The Walt Disney Company. This role is focused on data integrations across data sources systems, data lakehouses, and business applications in support of multiple data domains across the company including HR, Finance, Sourcing, Security and Legal.

You will be working in a challenging, fast-paced, highly collaborative and rewarding environment, as a member of product and project teams that work closely with each other and with our business partners to deliver innovative and industry-leading business solutions.

Responsibilities of Role:

• Architecting highly-scalable, distributed enterprise data solutions with focus on data integration

• Designing and developing data integration solutions using common data integration best practices including: APIs, Messaging Bus, Pub-Sub, ETL

• Designing and documenting architecture at multiple levels (high-level to detailed) and across multiple views (conceptual, logical, physical, data flow and sequence diagrams)

• Providing active “hands-on” architectural guidance and leadership through the entire lifecycle of development projects

• Translating business requirements into conceptual and detailed technology solutions

• Collaborating closely with other architects and peers across the organization architecting and delivering solutions

• Performing third-party vendor assessments

• Developing and leading proof-of-concepts projects

• Keeping fluent in industry and marketplace evolution; continuously learning new data technologies and introducing into the organization

• Cross-training peers and mentoring junior teammates

Must Haves:

• Minimum of 10 years of related work experience

• Experience with GCP Dataflow and BigQuery is preferred

• Experience with Informatica/IDMC is desirable

• Expertise in data integration is preferred

• Familiarity and working experience with common data integration patterns and processes including: ETL, APIs, Messaging Bus, Pub-Sub, flat files

• Fluency architecting and documenting architecture at multiple levels (high-level to detailed) and across multiple views (conceptual, logical, physical, data flow and sequence diagrams)

• Understanding and experience with Solutions Architecture methodology and practices

• Ability to translate business requirements into conceptual and detailed technology solutions

• Ability to perform third-party vendor assessments

• Ability to develop and lead proof-of-concepts

• Focused on delivering practical, working solutions (no ivory tower solutions)

• Fluent understanding of security and compliance requirements and how to design solutions that are secure and compliant

• Practical experience designing data solutions in multiple models and technologies: relational, No-SQL, big data, graph, distributed, cloud, unstructured and structured

• Experience and expertise architecting and developing data platforms

• Experience and expertise in data security

• Experience and expertise with data lifecycle management, data-tiering and data archiving

• Functional understanding and experience with BI and Analytics tools

• Functional understanding of cloud data storage and analytics offerings

• Experience migrating legacy systems to modern solutions

Nice To Haves:

• Strong collaboration skills

• Ability to “influence without authority”

• Strong communication skills, both oral and written. Ability to communicate well to both technical and business audiences.

• Innovative thinking and embraces innovation by constantly seeking new or contrary ideas and approaches to what has been done in the past

• Keeps fluent in new technologies and successful sharing with peers and introducing new technologies into the organization

• Good at managing relationships with colleagues and stakeholders outside the organization.

• Creates enduring excitement about what is possible, while setting direction and driving results

• Thinks big and broad, without being constrained by existing norms or business models

• Recognizes diverse backgrounds, points of view, and cultural histories that directly impact the organization’s ability to innovate

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 Burbank, California is $184,300 to $247,100 per year and in Seattle, WA $193,100 to $258,900 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.