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Director, Technology eCommerce
Job Description
Job Summary: Disney Parks, Experiences and Products (DPEP) brings stories and characters to life through innovative and engaging physical products and digital experiences across more than 100 categories, from toys and t-shirts to apps, books, console games and much more. The business is home to world-class teams of app and game developers, licensing and retail experts, leading retail and e-commerce businesses - Disney store and shopDisney.com - as well as renowned artists, storytellers and technologists who inspire imaginations around the world.
The Director, Technology eCommerce will design the strategy and execution of new technology initiatives in the online and mobile space for WDW and DLR admissions, cart and ecommerce checkout.
Responsibilities:
- Directly oversee, mentor, and develop the technical leadership staff and supervise the technical delivery of those individuals.
- Responsible for technical analysis, effort estimation, product and system design evaluating architectural fit and compliance, resource schedules, delivery milestones, and overall product quality.
- Manage a variety of diverse - and sometimes conflicting - requests, priorities, and activities.
- Develop and manage effective working relationships with other departments, groups and staff
- Participate in the broader Technology & Digital organizations, and ensure that products are created in a platform-centric manner.
- Enforce and grow a culture focused on quality
- Drives ongoing Segment strategy in alignment with Company-wide strategic initiatives
- Design and drive strategies to mitigate the Tech Currency for Cast & Guest Solutions
- Design and drive strategies to manage the cyber security critical and high findings for the ecommerce portfolio
- Drive strategies in partnership with site operations to transform the Systems Engineering and DevOps processes
- Drive the technical strategies for ongoing and new projects aligned to core revenue initiatives aligned to Admissions, Resorts and Commerce systems and applications to include the following confidential projects:
- Wakanda
- Genie
- App Monetization
- Unified Checkout
- APP Migration
- System Engineering/DevOps
- Drive strategies to ensure systems availability, performance and scalability issues & outages for services, providing technical leadership & ownership for immediate and proactive, long term resolutions.
Basic Qualifications:
- 7+ years of enterprise Technology delivery experience.
- 10+ years managing technical professionals.
- Well-rounded experience in communicating and pitching complex ideas to senior decision makers
- Experience in planning, forecasting and financial aspects of project execution.
- Experience in building large scale web applications or web-services leveraging Java technologies
- Demonstrates strong people management skills; with an ability to inspire, mentor, and develop a highly motivated team
- Ability to work collaboratively with technical, and non-technical Cast across the organization at all levels
- Portfolio of released applications to the Android and iOS stores.
- A sound understanding of content management systems.
- Solid understanding of e-commerce architecture, OOP design principles, third party libraries.
- Demonstrated exceptional critical thinking, strategic planning, and process management skills
- Success at achieving sophisticated technology goals on-time and on-budget.
- A comfort level with complex, matrixed organizations containing a certain amount of ambiguity.
- Experience in a large media, technology or internet company.
Required Education
- Bachelor's Degree Computer Science or equivalent experience.
Preferred Education
- Master of Science (Computer Science), or equivalent experience.
About Parks, Experiences and Products: The Parks, Experiences and Products segment includes Disney's iconic travel and leisure businesses, which include 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. Disney's global consumer products operations include the world's leading licensing business across toys, apparel, home goods, digital games and apps; the world's largest children's publisher; Disney store locations around the world; and the shopDisney e-commerce platform.
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 with the following business segments: media networks, parks and resorts, studio entertainment, consumer products and interactive media. 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.
This position is with Walt Disney Attractions Technology LLC, which is part of a business segment we call Parks, Experiences and Products. Walt Disney Attractions Technology LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Disney fosters a business culture where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a rapidly changing world
