Mgr, Software Engineer

Overview

Disney Experiences is seeking an engineering manager to lead the delivery and execution of projects advancing its core commerce platform. The role leads engineers, project and product managers, and collaborates with business and technology teams to develop, deliver, and maintain mission-critical applications.

What you'll do

• Lead and mentor delivery teams consisting of full stack software engineers, web developers, application architects, product managers, and scrum masters.
• Own application development and delivery for multiple large projects.
• Collaborate with technology teams and businesses across sites on project deliverables, and develop platform vision and roadmaps.
• Develop and present project statuses, project concepts, and platform roadmaps to senior leaders.
• Perform technical analysis, effort estimation, product and system design, architectural fit and compliance evaluation, resource scheduling, delivery milestone planning, and overall product quality management.
• Provide technical leadership and oversight for implementation and deployment planning, system integration, process improvements, quality assurance, delivery, operations, and sustainability of technical solutions.
• Resolve conflicts through leadership and appropriate decision-making.
• Enforce and grow a culture focused on quality and experience improvements.
• Ensure multiple concurrent projects and team objectives are resourced effectively.
• Meet regularly with stakeholders, vendor partners, and customers to review team priorities, execution, and business and delivery updates.
• Manage project and solution timelines and financials, including budget, cost, invoices, and contracts.
• Support on-call response to critical operational issues, work beyond normal hours, and support implementation transition activities and hyper-care shifts as needed.

What you'll need

• 8+ years of development experience, preferably full stack.
• Additional 5+ years managing engineering and technology delivery teams.
• Demonstrated knowledge and working experience with highly-scalable architectures, patterns, and technologies, specifically Java, GraphQL, NoSQL, and Event-Driven Architecture.
• Experience creating architecture designs that incorporate resiliency and performance.
• Experience managing a globally distributed delivery team utilizing Agile methodologies.
• Good troubleshooting skills for triaging problems in production and test environments.
• Experience in a large media, technology, or internet company.
• Success at achieving sophisticated technology goals on-time and on-budget.
• A comfort level with complex, matrixed organizations containing a certain amount of ambiguity.
• Excellent written and verbal communications, with proven ability to develop and deliver presentations geared for Executive Management.
• Proven experience managing software development lifecycle platforms and tools.
• Bachelor’s in computer science, engineering, information systems, or related field/work experience.

Nice to have

• Experience in the commerce space and products / pricing / inventory domains.
• Experience in travel and hospitality/hotel industries.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, India.
• Employment type: Full time.
• Support on-call response to critical operational issues, work beyond normal hours, and support hyper-care shifts as needed.