Senior Manager, Data Streaming Engineering – Guest Profile at The Walt Disney Company

Orlando, Florida, United States

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Not SpecifiedCompensation

Senior (5 to 8 years), Expert & Leadership (9+ years)Experience Level

Full TimeJob Type

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Entertainment, Hospitality, TechnologyIndustries

Requirements

10+ years of experience in data engineering or software engineering
Minimum of 5+ years leading teams that build and operate real-time/streaming data systems in production
Deep expertise in event streaming technologies and patterns, including Kafka/Confluent (or Pulsar/Kinesis/Pub/Sub)

Responsibilities

Own the end-to-end strategy and roadmap for real-time Guest Profile data capabilities, including identity events, consent signals, profile enrichment, and downstream activation integrations
Lead the design and implementation of a modern, event-driven streaming architecture (ingestion, processing, enrichment, storage, activation) with strong SLAs/SLOs for latency, freshness, reliability, and data quality
Define and enforce data contracts, schemas, and governance for Guest-related events and profile attributes; establish best practices for schema evolution, versioning, replay, and backfills
Build and operate stateful streaming pipelines for identity resolution (deterministic and probabilistic), account/device/household stitching, and profile graph updates
Implement privacy-by-design into every streaming path: consent and preference enforcement in-stream, data minimization, purpose limitation, and secure handling of sensitive and PII data
Create real-time data products and services (e.g., profile change feeds, consent event topics, feature streams) that power personalization, marketing activation, service recovery, and analytics
Establish operational excellence: production readiness standards, incident response, on-call, capacity planning, and robust observability for streaming workloads
Build, mentor, and grow a diverse, world-class engineering team; set clear goals/OKRs, foster engineering excellence, and develop leaders within the organization
Communicate strategy, trade-offs, and technical direction to executive and non-technical audiences; influence across a matrixed environment to drive adoption of streaming-first patterns
Evaluate and introduce emerging capabilities (e.g., Snowpipe Streaming, dynamic tables, stream-native quality checks, open lineage) to continuously improve speed, safety, and cost efficiency
Stay current on consumer privacy regulations and platform changes; translate shifts in the privacy landscape into proactive adjustments to the Guest data streaming strategy

Skills

Key technologies and capabilities for this role

Data StreamingEvent-Driven ArchitectureReal-Time Data ProcessingPipeline EngineeringIdentity ManagementPersonalizationPrivacy EngineeringSLOsSLAsData IngestionData EnrichmentData StorageLeadershipStrategyArchitecture

Questions & Answers

Common questions about this position

What is the employment type for this position?

This is a full-time position.

Is this role remote or does it require office presence?

This information is not specified in the job description.

What are the key responsibilities for this Senior Manager role?

The role involves owning the strategy and roadmap for real-time Guest Profile data capabilities, leading the design of event-driven streaming architecture, defining data contracts and governance, building stateful streaming pipelines for identity resolution, implementing privacy-by-design, creating real-time data products, and establishing operational excellence.

What is the team structure like for this position?

You will lead a high-performing team of data streaming engineers and sit in Data Products & Platform within the Technology & Digital organization for Disney Experiences, partnering closely with business strategy, product, privacy, identity, technology, and engineering leaders.

What kind of experience makes a strong candidate for this role?

Strong candidates should have expertise in data streaming engineering, event-driven architectures, identity resolution, privacy-by-design, and leadership experience to build, mentor, and grow a world-class engineering team.