Lead Software Engineer - Snowflake

Department Description:

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 endeavor is a commitment to creating and delivering unforgettable experiences — and we’re constantly looking for new ways to enhance these exciting experiences.

The Enterprise Technology mission is to deliver technology solutions that align to business strategies while enabling enterprise efficiency and promoting cross-company collaborative innovation. Our group drives competitive advantage by enhancing our consumer experiences, enabling business growth, and advancing operational excellence.

Team Description:

The Corporate Technology group is part of the Products organization, responsible for delivering and supporting the technology that powers TWDC’s corporate functions, enterprise workflows, and custom software platforms. Our scope spans the entire product lifecycle — from setting strategy and roadmaps to overseeing project delivery, engineering, and ongoing support. Through these efforts, we drive digital transformation across our business, workforce, and technology communities.

We partner with a diverse range of internal corporate teams — including Corporate Social Responsibility, Global Labor & Product Standards, Global Security, Management Audit, Legal & Global Affairs, Global Public Policy, Global Merchandise and Procurement, Sourcing, Supply Chain Compliance, Trade Management, & Logistics. Additionally, these solutions extend to our segment partners, ensuring a cohesive and connected technology experience across the company.

What You'll Do:

The Lead Software Engineer - Snowflake is a senior individual contributor and technical leader responsible for the architecture, design, and development of complex solutions developed on the Snowflake platform. This role plays a critical part in advancing the platform’s capabilities across the Disney Compliance and Supply Chain spaces.  The ideal candidate brings deep hands-on platform expertise, forward-looking architectural thinking, and the ability to influence technical strategy at scale.  In addition to being the core technical leader, this role will also be involved in overseeing daily user story creation, sprint activities and critical code review across all agile activities. 

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and optimization of complex Snowflake solutions leveraging modern platform capabilities, best practices, and extensibility frameworks.

• Act as a technical authority across all development team activities to include platform strategy, AI adoption & implementation, and platform governance and security.  

• Architect and govern complex data ingest & egress across multiple internal & external data sources, ensuring data quality, normalization, reconciliation, lifecycle integrity, and operational reliability.

• Design scalable models that support enterprise-wide capabilities, asset lifecycles, compliance, reporting, and integration with downstream systems.

• Be the technical expert within the Snowflake platform for alignment with global data guidelines in support of PII, GDPR,  PIPL, CCPA regulations.

• Build and optimize Platform Analytics, Performance Analytics, and executive level dashboards, driving data informed decision making.

• Leverage emerging Snowflake capabilities such as Snowflake Intelligence, Streamlit, Cortex AI and Gen AI.  Platform Analytics, AI/Automation frameworks, and next-generation reporting tools.

• Define technical patterns, guardrails, and reference architectures aligned with platform strategy and long-term sustainment.

• Partner with Product Management, Enterprise Architecture, Security, and Operations to translate strategic goals into robust technical solutions.

• Mentor engineers and provide architectural guidance through design reviews, code reviews, and technical coaching.

• Lead complex troubleshooting efforts, including production break-fix, discovery failures, root cause analysis, integration bottlenecks, and performance degradation.

• Produce high-quality, audit-ready technical documentation, including solution designs, data models, and architectural diagrams.

Required Qualifications & Skills:

• Minimum 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant hands-on development on the Snowflake platform.

• Snowflake certifications: SnowPro Core, SnowPro advanced data engineer.

• Advanced proficiency in JavaScript, SQL, Snowflake scripting, Snowpipe, & Snowpark.

• Demonstrated experience implementing and supporting detailed Snowflake optimization reports for very large volume data lakes across multiple accounts.

• Strong experience creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, enabled with custom Python code.

• Strong technical expertise implementing Snowflake Data Warehousing & Medallion data lake strategies.

• Strong hands-on expertise with Security, Disaster Recovery, Data Governance, Monitoring, AI & Enablement.

• Solid understanding of asset lifecycles, license compliance, software normalization, and hardware asset governance.

• Experience with REST integrations, data imports, web services, and event-based integrations.

• Proven experience working in Agile delivery environments with cross-functional global teams.

• Ability to design scalable, resilient, and maintainable solutions that support enterprise growth.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with high volume data solutions such as Databricks and Azure Synapse.

• One or more SnowPro advanced or specialty certifications, such as Generative AI, Snowpark or Architect.

• Experience implementing Platform Analytics, advanced Performance Analytics, and complex data-driven insights with a lens towards cost optimization strategy.

• Experience with programming languages such as C#, & .NET.

• Strong understanding of platform governance, upgrade strategies, and technical debt management.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience

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The hiring range for this position in Orlando, FL is $148,300 - $198,800 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.