Lead Tech Project Mgr
Postuler maintenant Postuler ultérieurement Job ID 10098008 Emplacement Celebration, Floride, États-Unis Entreprise Disney Experiences Date de publication 12/09/2024Résumé du poste:
Lead Technical Project Manager
About the Role & Team
“We Power the Magic!” That’s our motto at Disney Experiences - Technology & Digital. Our team creates world-class immersive digital experiences for the Company’s premier vacation brands including Disney’s Parks & Resorts worldwide, Disney Cruise Line, Aulani, A Disney Resort & Spa, and Disney Vacation Club.
The DX Technology & Digital team is responsible for the end-to-end digital and physical Guest experience for all technology & digital-led initiatives across the Attractions & Entertainment, Food & Beverage, Resorts & Transportation, and Merchandise lines of business as well as other initiatives including the MyDisneyExperience and Hey, Disney!
The Lead Technical Project Manager is responsible for all aspects of project management for large programs and projects.
This a full time role that sits in our Orlando Florida office.
What You Will Do
- Work on high-priority, multi-site strategic programs
- Lead and drive cross-functional projects, and individual project tracks through full delivery life cycle ensuring project is delivered timely and on-budget.
- Work with engineering teams, including Software Engineers, Product Managers, Architects, and leadership to establish processes across all program areas that will ensure success on high priority business initiatives and improve efficiency.
- Lead and direct junior technical project managers in the execution of their work during the project lifecycle
- Work with business leaders and key stakeholders to support engineering efforts for projects within a program
- Defines, optimizes, and manages Agile project management ceremonies and processes at the team-of-teams level.
- Project Leadership, Planning and Execution
- Lead and manage large-scale, complex programs and/or projects, ensuring seamless collaboration across various teams and workstreams.
- Anticipate risks and develop mitigation plans; analyze mitigation plans and communicate plans to stakeholders
- Maintain accurate project documentation, including: RAID log, scope, project plans, budget, etc.
- Articulate a technical solution into business strategy and understand the big picture as it relates to business value..
- Financial Management
- Reconcile project actuals and determine forecast course corrections
- Achieve a detailed understanding of how project is billed, including changes to forecast
- Maintain up-to-date budget documentation
- Proactively communicate forecast budget or changes to leadership
- Project Resource Management
- Align resource capacity maps to project plans accounting for cross-project dependencies
- Drive integration with resource managers, delivery managers and leadership
- Monitor resource capacity, balancing work and budget (over/under)
- Risk Management & Problem Solving
- Manage scope changes and variances, assess impact to timeline and budget, and communicate
- Proactively collaborate and identify solutions to as unexpected issues arise to maintain progress
- Provide transparent communication of risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, scope change, impacts and solutions
- Stakeholder Communication & Management
- Lead stakeholder coordination and engagement to ensure understanding of project requirements, scope, goals, priorities and timelines.
- Engage stakeholders to ensure decision and change management processes are followed
- Create and own communication plan & cadence of project meetings
- Manage stakeholder expectations, build strong relationships and trust
- Transparent Project Reporting
- Identify health / progress metrics
- Lead project meetings and maintain minutes, including purpose, agenda and deliverables and progress towards goals/ milestones
- Prepare and distribute weekly status updates
- Enable data-driven storytelling with Data visualization
- Prepare and facilitate project status presentations, dashboards, risk assessments and data-driven storytelling for leadership and executives
Required Qualifications & Skills
- 7+ years of technical project/program management experience working with technical teams developing enterprise class solutions
- Technical aptitude:
- Understanding of Cloud, APIs, services, database technologies, technologist roles and responsibilities, capabilities & platform dependencies, software development lifecycle, engineering and/or product development
- Influence and negotiation, communication, professional maturity & organizational savvy, relationship building, dependency mapping
- Hands-on experience with practices such as Agile, Lean, Kanban, Waterfall as well as extensive experience with pragmatic blending of styles to facilitate collaboration and delivery
- Deep understanding of Agile technical practices, DevOps and testing concepts (CI/CD, TDD)
- Significant experience in coaching and mentoring teams on project management practices including Agile, Lean, Kanban, Waterfall
- Excellent ability to understand architectural and technical aspects of projects
- Excellent organizational, communication (written and verbal) and time management skills with attention to detail
- Experience managing large budgets
- Tools:
- Office productivity software, including Microsoft suite, Keynote, Smartsheet,
- Project management software, including MyPPM (Clarity), MyJira
- Reporting tools, including Tableau, PowerBI
Preferred Qualifications
- Technical project management experience in Commerce or a related field
- Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification
- Experience in supporting large-scale, global software development programs
- Agile Certifications ie CSM; ACP; CPO; SAFe; LeSS
Education
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Finance, Accounting or equivalent relevant experience.
- 7 + years of relevant experience.
Preferred Education:
- Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Finance, Accounting or related field or equivalent relevant experience.
- 5+ years of relevant experience
Sur Disney Experiences:
Disney Experiences donne vie à la magie des histoires et des franchises Disney à travers des parcs à thème, des complexes hôteliers, des bateaux de croisière, des expériences de vacances uniques, des produits et bien plus encore dans le monde entier. Disney excelle dans l’industrie du voyage avec six destinations de villégiature aux États-Unis, en Europe et en Asie, une compagnie de croisières de premier plan, un programme de propriété de vacances très populaire, et une agence primée d’aventures guidées en famille. De plus, les opérations mondiales de produits de consommation de Disney comprennent la plus grande entreprise de licences au monde, les plus grandes marques d’édition pour enfants au monde, l’un des plus grands concédants de licence de jeux au monde sur toutes les plateformes, et les magasins Disney dans le monde entier et sur le Web.
Sur The Walt Disney Company:
The Walt Disney Company, ainsi que ses filiales et sociétés affiliées, forme l’une des principales entreprises internationales diversifiées de divertissement familial et de médias. Elle comprend trois secteurs d'activités essentiels : Disney Entertainment, ESPN et Disney Experiences. Depuis ses modestes débuts en tant que studio de dessins animés dans les années 1920 jusqu’à son statut de référence actuel dans le secteur du divertissement, Disney poursuit fièrement sa tradition de création d’histoires et d’expériences exceptionnelles pour tous les membres de la famille. Les histoires, les personnages et les expériences de Disney touchent les consommateurs et les visiteurs du monde entier. À travers nos activités présentes dans plus de 40 pays, nos employés et cast members collaborent pour créer des expériences de divertissement appréciées à la fois au niveau universel et local.
Le poste est rattaché à Walt Disney Attractions Technology LLC , qui fait partie d’une entreprise que nous appelons Disney Experiences.
Walt Disney Attractions Technology LLC est un employeur qui souscrit au principe d’égalité des chances à l’emploi. Les candidat(e)s seront pris(es) en considération pour un emploi sans distinction de race, de religion, de couleur, de sexe, d’orientation sexuelle, de genre, d’identité de genre, d’expression de genre, d’origine nationale, d’ascendance, d’âge, d’état matrimonial, de statut militaire ou d’ancien combattant, d’état de santé, d’informations génétiques ou de handicap, ou de tout autre motif interdit par la loi fédérale, étatique ou locale. Disney défend un environnement commercial où les idées et décisions de tous et toutes nous aident à grandir, innover, créer les meilleures histoires et être pertinents dans un monde en évolution constante.