Manager, Systems Engineering
The manager of Embedded Engineering will lead a team of infrastructure engineers embedded with the Media Engineering team, which provides design, engineering and support for media workflows across the Disney company. This person will drive our engagement across the various media engineering teams in order to drive product platform scalability, reliability, and best in class cloud infrastructure solutions through embedded delivery engagement.
Responsibilities :
- Lead and manage embedded infrastructure engineers.
- Plays a key role in defining initiatives and contributing to the strategic planning.
- Adapt in a quickly changing environment and interact with a broad customer base with diverse needs and functional responsibilities
- Ensure product / project deliverables across the delivery teams are consistent, high quality and well documented
- Directly oversee, mentor, and develop the technical staff and supervise the technical delivery of these developers
- Provide leadership to direct-report and/or cross-functional teams
- Challenge the status quo through intellectual curiosity and natural inquisitiveness to look beyond the obvious for continuous improvement.
- Interface with both senior technology leaders as well as senior business leaders in order to accomplish business goals.
- Participate in various tactical and strategic meetings with all levels of leadership to advise and collaborate on solutions to current and future challenges
- Identifies opportunities to consolidate and/or optimize business processes through research and leveraging vendor relationships
- Ensures that all security requirements are met or exceeded
Basic Qualifications :
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- Strong leadership and people management skills
- Knowledge of cloud technologies and their services(AWS, Azure)
- High level understanding of networking, compute and databases
- Experience with managing off/near-shore consultants
- Understanding of Devops and SRE roles and responsibilities
- Solid understanding of program and project management principles
- Exceptional communication skills and the ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization; this includes written and verbal communication as well as visualizations
- Ability to act as liaison between business and technologies
- Strong situational analysis and decision-making abilities
- Ability to think creatively and to drive innovation
- Understanding of Agile methodology
Preferred Qualifications :
- 3+ years of experience in people management and leadership role
- 6+ years of experience in leading and driving large teams and programs
- Experience in working in a multi-national and multi-cultural work environment
- Cloud development experience
- Report AWS cost analysis
- Experience with Broadcast management software.
- Demonstrates strong ability to influence without authority
- Demonstrates strong organizational and time management skills
- Ability to share and present ideas and program details with Senior Executives
- Ability to embrace organizational change
- Ability to think creatively beyond normal constraints
The hiring range for this remote position is $128,000.00 to $199,900.00 per year, which factors in various geographic regions. 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.