Sr Tech Project Mgr

About the role

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. We are 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.

Responsibilities

• Drives execution and delivery of technical projects through full delivery life cycle ensuring project is delivered timely and on-budget.
• Works with engineering teams, including Software Engineers, Product Managers, Architects, and leadership to establish processes across all program areas that will ensure success on strategically prioritized projects and improve efficiency.
• Defines, optimizes, and manages Agile project management ceremonies and processes for large project teams.
• Manages hardware/software procurement of assigned projects.
• Develops a program plan comprised of parallel projects and multiple project managers that collectively produce work that has significant business impact.
• Maintains and monitors program plan to respond to unplanned changes, ensuring program is progressing to meet business goals.
• Implements governance practices and provides senior-level leadership oversight and control for the program.
• Implements fiscal practices and controls, authorizing, recording, and reporting on program expenditures & ROI.
• Develops infrastructure needed to support the program.

Requirements

Minimum of 5 years of technical project/program management experience working with technical teams developing enterprise class solutions.

Understanding of Cloud, APIs, services, database technologies, technologist roles and responsibilities, capabilities & platform dependencies, software development lifecycle, engineering and/or product development.

Influence and negotiation, communication, professional maturity & organizational savvy, relationship building, dependency mapping.

Hands-on experience with practices such as Agile, Lean, Kanban, Waterfall as well as extensive experience with pragmatic blending of styles to facilitate collaboration and delivery.

Deep understanding of Agile technical practices, DevOps and testing concepts (CI/CD, TDD).

Significant experience in coaching and mentoring teams on project management practices including Agile, Lean, Kanban, Waterfall.

Excellent ability to understand architectural and technical aspects of a project.

Experience managing large project budgets.

Experience with tools such as: Microsoft suite, Keynote, Smartsheet, MyPPM (Clarity), MyJira, Tableau, and PowerBI.

Skills

• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification.
• Experience in supporting large-scale, global software development programs.
• Agile Certifications ie CSM; ACP; CPO; SAFe; LeSS.

Qualifications

Required Education: Bachelor’s degree and/or equivalent work experience.

Pay

The hiring range for this position in Orlando, FL is $120,400 to $161,400 per year.