Lead Data Architect

About the role

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.

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)

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

Skills

• Strong communication skills, ability to communicate well to both technical and business audiences
• Strong collaboration skills

Qualifications

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

Pay

• Billing Range: $148,300 - $198,800 per year in Orlando, FL; $155,700 - $208,700 per year in Burbank, CA; $163,100 - $218,700 per year in Seattle, WA

Schedule

• Full-time