About the role

  • Lead Data Engineer responsible for designing and building AI data foundations in Ad Tech at Disney. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance data architecture and pipeline reliability.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build streaming and batch pipelines for AI applications, ensuring low-latency and high-throughput data flows.
  • Implement embedding pipelines and vector store integrations to support retrieval, semantic search, and AI assistants.
  • Optimize storage and retrieval patterns for scalability, compliance, and cost efficiency.
  • Own the design of AI-optimized data stores that align with enterprise data architecture.
  • Partner with the AI Core Engineering team to provide reliable pipelines into shared agents, registries, and services.
  • Develop reusable data ingestion and transformation frameworks for cross-team adoption.
  • Build observability into data pipelines with monitoring, alerting, and dashboards for latency, drift, and failures.
  • Implement data quality checks, schema validation, and governance controls.
  • Ensure pipelines meet enterprise standards for compliance, audit, and resilience.
  • Mentor engineers, conduct design/code reviews, and enforce data engineering best practices.
  • Collaborate with infra, product, and governance teams to align on priorities and safe adoption of AI.
  • Drive delivery of high-profile AI applications by balancing execution speed with system reliability.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of data engineering experience, with at least 2 years in a lead or senior technical role.
  • Experience building and scaling streaming data pipelines in large-scale, distributed environments.
  • Strong skills in Python, Java and SQL with expert level skill in either Python or Java.
  • Proven experience building streaming data pipelines (e.g., Kafka, Flink, Spark, Kinesis).
  • Experience with embedding pipelines and vector stores (e.g., Pinecone, Weaviate, FAISS, pgvector).
  • Strong knowledge of data modeling, storage optimization, and retrieval patterns for large-scale systems.
  • Hands-on experience with workflow orchestration tools (Airflow, Dagster, etc.).
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills, able to partner across AI engineering, infra, and product teams.

Benefits

  • A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package
  • Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered

Job title

Lead Data Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$152,200 - $204,100 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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