Lead Data & Analytic Engineer

The Disney Entertainment & ESPN Product & Technology team develops products, platforms, and innovations to drive business performance for Disney’s streaming services, including Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+, and Disney+ Hotstar, as well as domestic broadcast and cable networks. The Senior Data & Analytics Engineer will play a key role in designing and maintaining data‑centric systems that align with Disney’s global strategy across Domestic, EMEA, APAC and LATAM. This role is based in our London Hammersmith office, four days a week, with either Monday or Friday working from home.

Responsibilities

• Manage the entire lifecycle of data systems, from ideation and planning to development, deployment, and ongoing improvement.
• Promote data literacy and accessibility across the organization, enabling data‑driven decision‑making.
• Ensure data quality, reliability, and compliance, working with data engineers and stakeholders to establish and maintain robust data processes.
• Collaborate with data engineers, data scientists, product managers, and other stakeholders to identify data needs, prioritize projects, and optimize data usage.
• Use data to inform media application decisions, identify opportunities for new applications and features, and develop data‑driven application systems that meet user needs.
• Develop and maintain a roadmap for data‑driven systems, ensuring alignment with business goals and priorities.
• Define and track key metrics and KPIs to measure the success of data systems and inform future development efforts.
• Analyse data to identify trends, patterns, and insights that can be used to inform media application decisions and improve user experience.
• Collaborate with DBAs and systems infrastructure teams to build and maintain the data infrastructure for optimal performance and resilience.

Qualifications & Skills

• Builds Relationships: Establishes critical external alliances, engages colleagues across the organization, manages diverse stakeholder needs, facilitates win‑win situations, resolves conflicts effectively, interacts well with people who have different backgrounds and work styles.
• Communicates Effectively: Obtains full engagement through inspiring communications, provides appropriate rationale and context to drive commitment, effectively persuades others to support ideas and plans, tailors messages appropriately to the audience, invites diverse points of view, listens and asks questions to ensure understanding, conveys relevant information candidly and timely.
• Drives Results: Translates strategy into specific priorities, objectives, and action plans; develops appropriate metrics to assess business performance; manages projects, processes and resources to produce desired outcomes; holds self and others accountable to high performance standards; achieves high levels of customer satisfaction; analyses problems effectively and takes action to resolve; uses technology to facilitate better results; keeps commitments; analyses data and information to drive decisions.
• Inspires Creativity and Innovation: Creates an environment that encourages creative thinking and supports risk taking; proactively looks for new opportunities; takes risks and manages them intelligently; facilitates the exchange of ideas and creation of new ones; transfers ideas and successes across boundaries; challenges the status quo; conceives creative ideas to solve problems or meet objectives.
• Champions Change: Articulates a compelling business case for change; leads the change effort from inception to attainment of desired results; builds commitment to change; coaches others through change; supports new initiatives; demonstrates flexibility in response to changes; remains productive despite uncertainty.

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave
• Private medical insurance & dental care
• Free Park Entry for you and your family and friends
• Disney Discounts on designated Disney products, resort food & beverage and ticketing
• Excellent parental and guardian leave
• Employee Resource Groups – Women @ Disney, Disney Mosaic, Disney PRIDE, ENABLED and TRUST

The Walt Disney Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strive to be a diverse workforce that is representative of our audiences, and where all can thrive and belong. Disney is committed to forming a team that includes and respects a variety of voices, identities, backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.