Job Posting Title:

Data Engineering Manager

Req ID:

10138691

Job Description:

Technology is at the heart of Disney’s past, present, and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more – all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney’s media business globally.

The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses. We are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Company’s media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world.

Here are a few reasons why we think you’d love working here:

1. Building the future of Disney’s media: Our Technologists are designing and building the products and platforms that will power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.
2. Reach, Scale & Impact: More than ever, Disney’s technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans' connections with the company’s brands and stories. Disney+. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC News…and many more. These products and brands – and the unmatched stories, storytellers, and events they carry – matter to millions of people globally.
3. Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.

Job Summary:

As an Operations Engineering Manager, you’ll be responsible for setting direction, driving execution, and fostering a healthy team culture—while also providing informed technical guidance and helping your team navigate complex operational engineering challenges in the production environment. Your background as a seasoned operations engineer enables you to engage in data incident support, root cause analysis and pipeline observability. This is a key role that ensures the timely delivery of accurate and reliable data.

We’re seeking a technically strong Manager to lead a team of operational data engineers supporting scalable, secure, and high-performance systems that power Disney’s digital experiences across brands like Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN. This role is ideal for a hands-on leader who brings both deep technical expertise and a passion for growing and mentoring engineering talent.

The ideal candidate has a track record of supporting high-impact operational and data engineering teams, focused on data monitoring and driving improvements for reliability and observability. You don’t need to write code every day, but you should be able to dive deep when needed, ask the right technical questions, and advocate for sound engineering practices. Curiosity, adaptability, and a collaborative mindset are key.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

• Lead and guide a team of 15 engineers to start, that monitor the data pipelines and react to production data incidents providing tier 1 and tier 2 support. This includes root cause analysis, stakeholder communication and production hotfixes via runbooks to ensure the timely delivery of accurate and reliable data.

• Assist in designing and developing platform improvements to support incident observability and automation. Guide the team building high quality data models and products that monitor via dashboards and reports on data pipeline health and data quality.

• Maintain comprehensive documentation to support internal adoption, governance, and compliance auditing. Own building out key components for observability and intelligent monitoring of data pipelines and infrastructure to achieve early and automated anomaly detection and alerting.

• Present your research and insights to all levels of the company, clearly and concisely.

Basic Qualifications:

• 7+ years of hands-on experience with big data technology, systems and tools such as AWS, Hadoop, Hive, and Snowflake.

• 2+ years of management / team lead experience.

• Proven experience in the data and ops reliability space with a focus in workflow orchestration tools such as Airflow.

• Demonstrated success delivering highly available, mission-critical services in production environments and responding to data incidents.

• Expertise with common Data Engineering languages such as Python, Scala, Java, SQL and a proven ability to learn new programming languages.

• Hands-on experience with modern architectural paradigms such as microservices, event-driven systems, and containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).

• Strong communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across technical and non-technical teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Passion for operational reliability support.

• Demonstrated curiosity and enthusiasm for exploring new technologies through hands-on experimentation or proof-of-concept projects.

• Strong interest in tackling complex, fast-evolving technology or business challenges.

• Passion for automation, scalable systems, data-driven solutions, and creative technical innovation.

• Experience designing and building observability platforms or systems with high availability and performance requirements including dashboards and data alerting systems.

• Familiarity with privacy regulations and/or data subject rights.

• A fan of movies and television a strong plus.

Required Education:

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field. Advanced degrees a plus.

Job Posting Segment:

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

Job Posting Primary Business:

Commerce, Data & Identity

Primary Job Posting Category:

Product Development Data Engineering

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Bangalore, India

Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Date Posted:

2026-01-13