Job Posting Title:

Senior Technical Project Manager

Req ID:

10113977

Job Description:

About the Role & Team:

"We Power the Magic!” That’s our motto at Disney Experiences. Our team builds extraordinary immersive digital experiences for the Company’s world-class vacation brands including Disney’s Parks & Resorts worldwide and Disney Signature Experiences.

This position sits under Disney Signature Experiences, the segment of Disney Experiences offering family travel and leisure experiences beyond theme parks including Disney Vacation Club, Disney Cruise Lines, Adventures by Disney, Aulani, a Disney Resort & Spa, National Geographic Expeditions, and Story Living by Disney.

The Senior Technical Project Manager is responsible for all aspects of project management for highly complex and strategically prioritized projects

What You Will Do:

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. Manage 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

Monitors & adjusts program plan to respond to unplanned changes, ensuring program is progressing to meet business goals

Creates 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

Required Qualifications & Skills:

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

Technical aptitude:

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 projects

Excellent organizational, communication (written and verbal) and time management skills with attention to detail

Experience managing large budgets

Tools:

Office productivity software, including Microsoft suite, Keynote, Smartsheet,

Project management software, including MyPPM (Clarity), MyJira

Reporting tools, including Tableau, PowerBI

Preferred Qualifications:

Technical project management experience

Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification

Experience in supporting large-scale, global software development programs

Agile Certifications ie CSM; ACP; CPO; SAFe; LeSS

Education:

Bachelors Degree and/or equivalent relevant experience.

Preferred Education:

Master’s Degree and/or equivalent relevant experience. 

 

Job Posting Segment:

Technology & Digital

Job Posting Primary Business:

Disney Signature Experiences

Primary Job Posting Category:

Project Management Tech

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Celebration, FL, USA

Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Date Posted:

2025-02-27