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Lead Technical Project Manager - Launch Readiness

Candidate-se agora mesmo! Candidatar-se depois Job ID 10127694 Local Orlando, Flórida, Estados Unidos / Burbank, Califórnia, Estados Unidos Empresa The Walt Disney Company (Corporate) Data da publicação 04/08/2025

Descrição do cargo:

At Disney, we are storytellers. We make the impossible possible. The Walt Disney Company is a world-class entertainment and technological leader. Our passion is to continuously envision new ways to move audiences around the world—a passion that remains our touchstone in an enterprise that stretches from streaming, theme parks, resorts and a cruise line to sports, news, movies, and a variety of other businesses. Uniting each endeavor is a commitment to creating and delivering unforgettable experiences, and we are constantly looking for new ways to enhance these exciting experiences.  

 

The Enterprise Technology mission is to deliver technology solutions that align to business strategies while enabling enterprise efficiency and promoting cross-company collaborative innovation. We drive competitive advantages by enhancing our consumer experiences, enabling business growth, and advancing operational excellence. 

About the role: 

 

The Lead Project Manager will be a part of the Core Systems & Platforms team within the ET. You will have the opportunity to support our finance transformation initiatives; SAP ECC transition to S/4 Hana and its technology conversion leveraged by all TWDC segments and lines of business including, DPEP, Studios, DMED and Corporate functions.  

 

In this role, you will facilitate all aspects for delivery execution into production from scope definition to execution. In addition, you will manage the implementation efforts for launch readiness and oversee coordination of production validations required by the business teams. This role may also lead one of many workstreams responsible for the successful execution of the overall program. 

 

Responsibilities:   

  • This position will play a leadership role during command centers and hypercare for 100+ individuals for a given project. 

  • Understands and uses high-quality, scalable and cost-effective technology solutions that meet global business requirements and conform to architectural designs and technology strategies. 

  • Partners to create and handle technical roadmaps and helps set and lead technology strategy. 

  • Technical decisions for complex development scenarios requiring transformation from existing processes. 

  • Own/facilitate the scrum ceremonies. 

  • Launch planning sessions focused on critical technical and business milestones for pre-launch and developing day of launch tasks to track critical implementation milestones and dependencies. Including: writing and prioritize Epics, Technical User Stories and Tasks in a requirements repository with traceability to test cases in a testing repository. 

  • Understanding interdependencies and impacts to other cast members work streams. 

  • Drive for on-time delivery of all aspects of projects within the Finance Transformation Program. Consistently evaluate and improve the project plan, course correct for incoming/new prioritization and dependencies. 

  • Oversees the requirements process; ensures traceability of high-level requirements throughout the programParticipates in data analysis activities as needed. 

  • Leads or participates in the assessment of potential new opportunities, analyzing scope at a high-level and work with Business, Technology or Functional managers to agree on project approach, business cases, risk assessments, funding requirements, and resource/capability needs. 

  • Create detailed plans that will coordinate thousands of tasks to successfully deploy complex projects 

  • Understand the impacts of delays and clearly define the critical path for project go live. 

  • Make recommendations on task that can be performed in parallel to reduce overall business impact 

  • Accountable for accurate forecasting, tracking and adherence to program budgets. Understand and articulate challenges, assumptions, timelines and expenses across the projects and at the program level. 

  • Manages project variance and root cause analysis, develops risk mitigation / issue management plans related to the go live efforts with the objective to meet the financial targets. 

  • Quickly response to technical impairments or outages immediately during launch and hypercare. 

  • Ensures effective, proactive and open communications, horizontally and vertically, in order to achieve transparency and clarity of program goals, progress and issues. 

  • Supports and actively works to create a healthy work team environment- bringing measured response along with transparency and discipline to active discussions and communications. 

  • Coordinate and facilitate on-boarding requirements for all finance integrations in all phases of the program. 

 

Qualifications: 

  • Minimum of 7 years in Technology roles for large/enterprise software companies including financial, technical and business stakeholder executive facilitation. 

  • Strong understanding of data governance and data messaging platforms including Cloud. 

  • Minimum of 5 years’ experience with SAP ECC. 

  • Minimum of 5 years’ experience understanding the technical deployment of SAP products. 

  • Experience with Charm and/or SAP Transport methodology. 

  • Proven experience in managing complex technical projects. 

  • Experience with SAP environment readiness. 

  • Experience working with SAP basis teams. 

  • Experience with large data ERPs and understanding the performance impacts when writing code. 

  • Experience writing ABAP programming language on HANA a plus. 

  • Experience with Fiori and SAP Enterprise Portal a plus. 

  • Experience with SAP BW and SAP BCS a plus. 

 

Strong understanding and experience with: 

  • Experienced in “Data” project managements using Agile, Iterative and/or Waterfall SDLC Methodologies. 

  • Experienced in extracting and documenting data and analytic requirements, working across all levels of users from senior executives to analysts. 

  • Track record of taking ownership and driving results. 

  • Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills with strong writing and speaking skills. 

  • Ability to think both strategically and tactically with good attention to detail. 

  • Demonstrated ability to execute delivery on large programs with multiple projects - prioritization, planning and task delegation. 

  • Strong program/project financial management skills including forecasting. 

  • Experience with resource allocation tracking across program/projects. 

  • Proven experience in managing complex technical projects with complexity across stakeholders, multi-functional teams, requirements, and implementations. 

  • Ability to think logically, communicate clearly, and be well organized. 

 

Education: 

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, or a related STEM field, or equivalent professional experience 

  • Masters in a related field a plus. 

 


The hiring range for this position in Burbank, California is $152,200 to $204,100 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.


Sobre The Walt Disney Company (Corporate):

Na área empresarial da Disney, você pode ver como os negócios por trás das marcas mais poderosas da empresa se reúnem para criar a mais inovadora, conhecida e admirada empresa de entretenimento do mundo. Como integrante de uma equipe empresarial, você trabalhará com líderes de padrão internacional para promover estratégias que mantêm a The Walt Disney Company na vanguarda do entretenimento. Veja e seja visto por outros pensadores inovadores enquanto possibilita que os melhores contadores de histórias do mundo criem momentos inesquecíveis para milhões de famílias de todo o planeta.

Sobre The Walt Disney Company:

A The Walt Disney Company, juntamente com suas subsidiárias e afiliadas, é uma líder diversificada em entretenimento familiar e mídia internacional que inclui três segmentos principais de negócios: Disney Entertainment, ESPN e Disney Experiences. Desde seus primeiros passos como um estúdio de desenho animado na década de 1920 até se tornar o atual nome de destaque na indústria do entretenimento, a Disney orgulhosamente dá continuidade a seu legado de criação de histórias e experiências de padrão internacional para toda a família. As histórias, personagens e experiências da Disney tocam consumidores e visitantes de todas as partes do mundo. Com operações em mais de 40 países, nossos funcionários e colaboradores trabalham juntos para criar experiências de entretenimento adoradas por todos.

Esta vaga é oferecida junto à Disney Worldwide Services, Inc., que é parte de um segmento de negócios que chamamos de The Walt Disney Company (Corporate).

Disney Worldwide Services, Inc. é um empregador de oportunidades iguais. Os candidatos serão selecionados para emprego independente de raça, religião, cor, sexo, orientação sexual, gênero, identidade de gênero, expressão de gênero, nacionalidade, ancestralidade, idade, estado civil, status militar ou de veterano, quadro clínico, informações genéticas ou deficiência, ou qualquer outro motivo proibido por lei federal, estadual ou local. A Disney defende um ambiente de negócios em que ideias e decisões de todas as pessoas nos ajudam a crescer, inovar, criar as melhores histórias e ser relevantes em um mundo em constante evolução.

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