Principal Data Engineer

** Job Requirements*
* Technology is at the heart of Disney's past, present, and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more - all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney's media business globally.

The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses. We are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Company's media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world.

Here are a few reasons why we think you'd love working here:

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** Building the future of Disney's media:
** Our Technologists are designing and building the products and platforms that will power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.

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** Reach, Scale & Impact:
** More than ever, Disney's technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans' connections with the company's brands and stories. Disney+. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC News...and many more. These products and brands - and the unmatched stories, storytellers, and events they carry - matter to millions of people globally.

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** Innovation:
** We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.

Ad Platforms is responsible for Disney's industry-leading ad technology and products - driving advertising performance, innovation, and value in Disney's sports, news, and entertainment content, across all media platforms.

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* Job Summary:

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* As Principal Data Engineer for Marketing and Consumer Data, you will serve as the senior technical leader for Identity and Device data products - including Identity
360 and related consumer identifier datasets - that underpin marketing measurement, activation, and analytics across Disney Entertainment & ESPN. You will define technical direction, drive complex cross-system initiatives, establish engineering standards, and mentor leads and senior engineers, while partnering with onshore squad leaders, product, and enterprise architecture to deliver reliable batch and near-real-time data at petabyte scale.

** Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:*
* + Define and drive technical strategy for Identity & Device data products within Marketing and Consumer Data - including pipeline architecture, platform patterns, and modernization roadmap in partnership with onshore squad leaders and enterprise architecture.

+ Lead end-to-end delivery of complex, high-impact initiatives across Identity
360, device/consumer identifier datasets, and dependent Marketing data products - setting technical approach, sequencing, and quality bar for other engineers.

+ Serve as principal SME and escalation point for identity foundational data - data modeling, batch and near-real-time processing, performance at scale, and production reliability - including participation in on-call rotation and incident leadership for critical pipelines.

+ Establish and uphold engineering standards for the Identity & Device team and Marketing Data Engineering - code quality, CI/CD, observability, data governance (GDPR, RTBF, CCPA), and reusable platform patterns across Databricks, AWS, and orchestration tooling.

+ Mentor and develop engineers through design reviews, pairing, and coaching - building depth in big-data engineering, identity domain knowledge, and operational excellence.

+ Partner cross-functionally with Product, QA, Operations, Privacy/Legal, and peer…