Manager of Architecture & Integration

About the Role

The Mgr-Architecture and Integration is a leadership role within Disney Experiences, responsible for overseeing a portfolio of technical facilities projects that support our theme parks, resorts, cruise, retail, and other guest-facing environments. This leader provides direction to professional staff in engineering and architecture, ensuring that project delivery strategies, standards, and resources align with Disney's guest-focused mission and long-term portfolio health. This position will report to the Senior Manager-Design Integration.

Responsibilities

• This role leads a team of professionals who are responsible for technical project delivery across an integrated facilities portfolio, including design oversight, construction administration, and turnover to sustainment for complex, multi-disciplinary refurbishments and capital projects.
• The Mgr-Architecture & Integration sets priorities, allocates resources, and partners with the other FAM Design leaders and regulatory stakeholders to ensure projects meet safety, quality, and performance standards while supporting the strategic needs of Disney Experiences.
• Success in this role requires a knowledgeable specialist and strategic leader who can mentor others, collaborate across disciplines, and manage a diverse portfolio of work.
• Shape future possibilities for the facilities portfolio through direct technical involvement, strategic thinking, and innovation.
• Identify emerging opportunities, influence long-term planning efforts, and help translate vision into practical project delivery strategies that enhance guest experiences, operational performance, and asset reliability.
• Coordinate and align project plans and priorities across departments by actively partnering with engineering, architecture, operations, sustainment, and project delivery teams.
• Help balance workload, resource demands, schedules, and technical priorities across organizations, ensuring work is distributed effectively and aligned with business objectives.
• Build strong partnerships and serve as a trusted advisor to internal clients, global engineering teams, consultants, and regulatory agencies.
• Foster collaboration, facilitate problem-solving, and leverage relationships to advance complex projects and organizational initiatives.
• Lead through influence and mentorship by sharing technical expertise, providing constructive feedback, coaching peers and junior professionals, and helping others navigate challenges while modeling accountability, professionalism, and continuous improvement.
• Support portfolio planning, prioritization, and workload management by providing technical insight, identifying emerging resource constraints, and collaborating with partner organizations to balance work assignments, optimize team capacity, and address changing business needs.
• Advance organizational capability through knowledge sharing and development by contributing to onboarding efforts, facilitating technical training, promoting best practices, and creating opportunities for professional and technical growth across disciplines.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership to ensure projects comply with company standards, design guidelines, customer requirements, safety protocols, and applicable codes and regulations.
• Assist project teams in resolving complex technical, permitting, and operational challenges.
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