Manager, Software Engineering

At Disney, we’re storytellers. We make the impossible, possible. The Walt Disney Company is a world-class entertainment and technological leader. Walt’s passion was to continuously envision new ways to move audiences around the world - a passion that remains our touchstone in an enterprise that stretches from theme parks, resorts and a cruise line to sports, news, movies and a variety of other businesses. Uniting each endeavour is a commitment to creating and delivering unforgettable experiences - and we’re constantly looking for new ways to enhance these exciting experiences.

You Will:

• Lead, coach, and support delivery teams that include full-stack software engineers, application architects, and scrum masters.
• Guide technical planning and execution across engineering and product teams, ensuring work aligns with business goals, platform strategy, and delivery priorities.
• Own the development and delivery of multiple large-scale commerce platform initiatives.
• Partner with technology, product, and business leaders to shape platform strategy, prioritize investments, and execute the technology roadmap.
• Communicate project status, technical direction, roadmap updates, and key decisions to senior leaders.
• Oversee technical analysis, effort estimation, solution design, architectural alignment, resource planning, delivery milestones, and solution quality.
• Lead implementation planning across deployment, system integration, quality assurance, operations, and long-term platform sustainability.
• Help teams resolve conflicts, make sound decisions, and stay focused on delivery outcomes.
• Foster a culture of engineering excellence, operational stability, innovation, quality, and continuous improvement.
• Manage project timelines, budgets, forecasts, vendor contracts, and financial commitments.
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders, vendor partners, product teams, and customers to align priorities and deliver meaningful outcomes.
• Support critical operational incidents and participate in implementation transition and hyper-care activities as needed.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Minimum of 8 years of hands-on software development experience, preferably building enterprise-scale applications and distributed systems. 5+ years of experience leading engineering organizations, technology delivery teams, or cross-functional product initiatives.
• Strong software engineering foundation with experience designing, developing, and operating large-scale distributed or cloud-native applications.
• Experience with scalable architectures, modern design patterns, and technologies commonly used in distributed commerce platforms, including Java, Spring Boot, GraphQL, REST APIs, microservices, Kafka, event-driven architecture, NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, and cloud platforms.
• Experience designing systems that are resilient, observable, performant, scalable, and support operational excellence.
• Ability to partner with Product Managers, Architects, Engineering Leads, and business stakeholders to define priorities, make decisions, and deliver measurable business value.
• Experience leading globally distributed teams using Agile methodologies.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills across production and test environments.
• Experience working in a large media, technology, internet, or enterprise software organization.
• Experience delivering complex technology initiatives on time and within budget.
• Comfortable working in large, matrixed organizations and navigating ambiguity.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present technical and business recommendations to executive leadership.
• Experience with modern software development lifecycle platforms, CI/CD pipelines, developer productivity tools, and cloud delivery practices.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience in pricing, inventory, commerce, reservation, transactional, or decisioning platforms.
• Experience in travel, hospitality, hotel, airline, cruise, or related industries.

Education Requirement

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field, or equivalent work experience.

The hiring range for this position in Orlando, FL is $163,400 - $219,100 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.