Principal Software Engineer (Architecture)

At Disney Experiences Technology, 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 Disney Experiences Technology 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 app and Hey, Disney!

About The Role & Team:

This role sits in the Commerce Architecture Team organization within Disney Experiences Technology (DXT). It works closely with Licensing and Publishing from across the company.

The Principial Software Engineer (Architect) will report to the Senior Manager of Commerce Architecture

What You’ll Do:

• Lead projects that may be used in commercial and end-user applications or focus on Architectural Designs

• Work typically involves large or highly sophisticated software programs and systems

• Exercise full autonomy to interact with users across diverse teams and levels to define system requirements and/or necessary modifications

• Lead and influence the direction and prioritization of the design and development of highly scalable software systems and applications

• Engage in the estimation and planning of highly sophisticated scalable projects and their budget allocations

• Continuously monitor and evaluate emerging technologies within your area of expertise to drive informed decision-making and recommendation

Required Qualifications & Skills:

• Minimum 10 years of related work experience

• Excellent communication and leadership abilities, to ensure effective growth and development of team

• A visionary who motivates teams to excel and fosters creativity, consistently driving excellence in all endeavors

• An advocate for a diverse and inclusive culture that encourages innovation and ensures every team member feels a sense of belonging

• Authority in MuleSoft and Gen AI, demonstrating deep expertise and knowledge in the field

• Designs solutions based on organizational strategy.

• Develops enterprise level application and custom integration solutions including major enhancements and interfaces, functions and features for multiple, complex systems ensuring high-performance and reliability of the solution.

• Defines application tiers, frameworks, and interfaces for the most complex projects.

• Determines specifications, then plans, designs, and develops the most complex and business critical software solutions, utilizing appropriate software engineering processes with an emphasis on reusability.

• May lead technical project teams during the design, development, testing, and implementation of complex application systems. Resolves the most difficult support problems.

• Research and implements industry trends in best practice solutions, procedures, and tools for application architecture.

• Develops design and development standards and procedures as well as programming architectures for code reuse.

• Participates in program-level application architecture decisions to determine the appropriate solution at the program level.

• Proactively expands knowledge of software tools, languages, scripts, and shells that effectively support the application development environment in different operating system environments. Sets technical standards and provides project-level work product reviews.

• Analyze existing application environments to prepare them for future strategic migration. Provides architectural guidance for a project.

• Accountable for quality, completeness, and on-time delivery of an assigned project.

• Develops enterprise level application and custom integration solutions including major enhancements and interfaces, functions and features for multiple, complex systems ensuring high-performance and reliability of the solution.

• Defines application tiers, frameworks, and interfaces for the project (i.e. Event Based Architecture).

• Determines specifications, plans, designs, and develops the business-critical software solutions, utilizing appropriate software engineering processes with an emphasis on reusability.

• Ability to perform across all phases of functional requirements.

• Ability to clearly document own work products and review and contribute to the documentation across complex assignments

• Ability to identify problems or opportunities within the scope of the department’s projects.

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

• TOGAF Certified

• 5 + Years in architecting solutions in AWS/GCP and or Azure

• 5+ Years’ experience in architecting, Licensing and Publishing Systems solutions.

• Proficient in multiple architectural modeling technologies.

Required Education:

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

The hiring range for this position in Florida is $179,500.00-$240,600.00 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.