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Lead Software Engineer

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The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company

10,001+ employees

Leading producers & providers of entertainment and information

Senior, Expert

Celebration, FL, USA

Category
Full-Stack Engineering
Software Engineering
Required Skills
Agile
MySQL
Git
Java
TypeScript
AWS
JIRA
AngularJS
Requirements
  • Minimum 7 years of related work experience
  • Comfortable working in an agile environment
  • A visionary who motivates teams to excel and fosters creativity, consistently driving excellence in all endeavors
  • An advocate for a diverse and inclusive culture that encourages innovation and ensures every team member feels a sense of belonging
  • Familiar with Java, SpringBoot, Angular, TypeScript, NodeJS, MariaDB or MySQL, GitLab, AWS, API Gateway, AWS console, and UML diagrams with a desire to further develop technical expertise in data engineering tools, methodologies, and emerging technologies
Responsibilities
  • Own the analysis, design, program, debugging, and modifications of software improvements and/or new products used in local, networked, cloud-based, or Internet-related computer programs
  • Lead projects that may be used in commercial and end-user applications or focus on software and tools supporting infrastructure and technology platforms
  • Facilitates decision making by engaging the appropriate resources and driving to closure.
  • Collaborates with other tech leads on best practices, integration requirements to ensure
  • Collaborates with Business Analyst, Product Managers, and Project Managers to develop business cases, in particular ensuring benefits align to strategic and tactical business objectives.
  • Provides advice and recommendations on emerging trends which will be useful to both the business and internal IT resources in the delivery of the projects.
  • Proactively raise concerns to management when a technical blocker puts the project at risk.
  • Takes a lead role in developing best in class practices and processes for the organization.
  • Mentors team members on software development best practices and standards.
  • Recommends improvements to processes and technology that improve the effectiveness of the team.
  • Develops and drives the strategic technology roadmap.
  • Work typically involves large or highly sophisticated software programs and systems
  • Possess an in-depth knowledge of current programming language and technologies, with strong skills in writing code and completing programming tasks
  • May perform or lead testing and debugging of applications, identifying innovative solutions
  • Conceive, design, develop, test, and implement software components, fixes, improvements, and/or new systems and applications
  • Interact with users to define system requirements and/or necessary modifications
  • Works with the business analyst and product team to clarify and document requirements (both functional and non-functional).
  • Defines technical stories from business requirements and ensure they have all details needed to be ready for development prior to review by the development team/ sprint planning.
  • Ensures all business requirements implementation passed to developers are clear and concise, documented correctly in Jira.
  • Architects and Software Engineers to design and implement appropriate solutions and documentation (including UML diagrams).
  • Help engage around the estimation and planning of highly sophisticated scalable projects and their budget allocations
  • You will be expected to stay up to date with emerging technologies so you can make informed recommendations
  • Provides leadership for all onshore and offshore technology resources.
  • Partners with Tech Leads, Architects and development team to follow Disney Reference Architecture best practices and share learnings across initiatives.
  • Mentors’ development team by setting an example and providing guidance on coding standards, agile practices, and team culture.
  • Participates in individual mentorship sessions with senior developers.
  • Owns the final product, by reviewing code to ensure the quality of the product being delivered.
  • Define coding patterns and practices to be used on a project and enforce conformity to the best practices.
  • Identifies technical debt and ensure that stories are added real-time to the backlog.
  • Strategically identify technical dependencies and lead times on stories so that leadership and project managers can coordinate the project plan accordingly.
  • Assists in creation of the Application Infrastructure Diagram with System Engineering, and the project Architect.
  • Pilots the development of current and future large or complex custom projects.
  • Identifies high level solution options for the business and presents these to stakeholders for review.
  • Works with Architects to ensure business processes are aligned with technology and business goals.
  • Coordinate with management and Solution Engineering to ensure the right balance of Time, Quality, and Cost is met on all deliverables.
The Walt Disney Company

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