Senior Technical Project Manager

About the Role & Team:

"We Power the Magic!” That’s our motto at Disney Experiences. Our team builds extraordinary immersive digital experiences for the Company’s world-class vacation brands including Disney’s Parks & Resorts worldwide and Disney Signature Experiences.

This position sits under Disney Signature Experiences, the segment of Disney Experiences offering family travel and leisure experiences beyond theme parks including Disney Vacation Club, Disney Cruise Lines, Adventures by Disney, Aulani, a Disney Resort & Spa, National Geographic Expeditions, and Story Living by Disney.

The Senior Technical Project Manager is responsible for all aspects of project management for highly complex and strategically prioritized projects

What You Will Do:

• Drives execution and delivery of technical projects through full delivery life cycle ensuring project is delivered timely and on-budget.

• Works with engineering teams, including Software Engineers, Product Managers, Architects, and leadership to establish processes across all program areas that will ensure success on strategically prioritized projects and improve efficiency.

• Defines, optimizes, and manages Agile project management ceremonies and processes for large project teams. Manage hardware/software procurement of assigned projects

• Develops a program plan comprised of parallel projects and multiple project managers that collectively produce work that has significant business impact

• Monitors & adjusts program plan to respond to unplanned changes, ensuring program is progressing to meet business goals

• Creates governance practices and provides senior-level leadership oversight and control for the program

• Implements fiscal practices and controls, authorizing, recording, and reporting on program expenditures & ROI

• Develops infrastructure needed to support the program

Required Qualifications & Skills:

• 5+ years of technical project/program management experience working with technical teams developing enterprise class solutions

• Technical aptitude:

  • Understanding of Cloud, APIs, services, database technologies, technologist roles and responsibilities, capabilities & platform dependencies, software development lifecycle, engineering and/or product development

  • Influence and negotiation, communication, professional maturity & organizational savvy, relationship building, dependency mapping

  • Hands-on experience with practices such as Agile, Lean, Kanban, Waterfall as well as extensive experience with pragmatic blending of styles to facilitate collaboration and delivery

  • Deep understanding of Agile technical practices, DevOps and testing concepts (CI/CD, TDD)

  • Significant experience in coaching and mentoring teams on project management practices including Agile, Lean, Kanban, Waterfall

  • Excellent ability to understand architectural and technical aspects of projects

  • Excellent organizational, communication (written and verbal) and time management skills with attention to detail

  • Experience managing large budgets

• Tools:

  • Office productivity software, including Microsoft suite, Keynote, Smartsheet,

  • Project management software, including MyPPM (Clarity), MyJira

  • Reporting tools, including Tableau, PowerBI

Preferred Qualifications:

• Technical project management experience

• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification

• Experience in supporting large-scale, global software development programs

• Agile Certifications ie CSM; ACP; CPO; SAFe; LeSS

Education:

• Bachelors Degree and/or equivalent relevant experience.

Preferred Education:

• Master’s Degree and/or equivalent relevant experience.