Lead Data Architect

The Walt Disney Company•Burbank, CA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Data Solutions & Platforms group is part of Enterprise Technology & Data. We are responsible for designing and developing enterprise solutions and managing a diverse portfolio of products and tools related to Data, Analytics, AI and Automation used by business teams across The Walt Disney Company. The Data Architect position is one of the key roles on the team. You will have the opportunity to lead and influence the architecture for several strategic programs that will shape the future of data, analytics and AI for The Walt Disney Company. Architecting data platforms and designing data products will be a focus for the role in support of the company’s Data Unification strategy. You will be working in a challenging, fast-paced, highly collaborative and rewarding environment, as a member of product and engineering teams that work closely with each other and with business leaders to deliver innovative and industry-leading data solutions.

Requirements

7 years+ experience in data architecture and developing enterprise data, analytics and AI solutions
Experience architecting and developing high-scale cloud data platforms
Experience architecting and developing master data management solutions
Experience with data governance
Experience with Snowflake
Experience with AI/ML
Strong communication skills, ability to communicate well to both technical and business audiences
Strong collaboration skills

Responsibilities

Architecting high-scale, secure and interoperable data platforms across the enterprise to enable AI and analytics applications
Architecting data domains and designing data products to be shared across the enterprise
Architecting cross-segment semantic layer and data catalog solutions
Designing an agentic architecture for exposing data from enterprise data lakehouse domains to AI applications
Developing MDM strategy and architecting MDM solutions for complex enterprise domains (e.g., Finance, HR)