Sr Technical Program Mgr – Live Stream Tooling
| Company | The Walt Disney Company |
|---|---|
| Location | Morrisville, NC, USA, New York, NY, USA |
| Salary | $132500 – $177600 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | |
| Experience Level | Senior |
Requirements
- Typically has 5+ years of experience managing software development programs or teams in a well-established global technology organization
- Talent leading virtual meetings with distributed groups, including executive sponsors, business partners and dependent service organizations
- Expert with project management tools, including: Confluence, JIRA, Smartsheets, Airtable
- Proficiency in Agile Project Management methods; including Scrum and/or Kanban
Responsibilities
- Drive discovery, planning, and execution of domain software from start to finish, including management of cross-functional touchpoints across technical teams
- Orchestrate team ceremonies, while contributing to positive team dynamics, morale and motivation that builds a culture where all members and points of view are respected
- Call and run meetings to conclusion and/or actionable outcome, including with groups of people beyond the immediate team
- Document decisions/results/notes professionally and in a timely manner
- Leverage experience with Agile and Scrum to manage releases and balance task priorities across multiple projects
- Solve complex problems rapidly in a challenging, dynamic environment with minimal direction
- Partner with engineering leadership on team process perpetually across sprints/projects/programs
- Communicate with transparency and regularity to business and technical senior management, delivery teams and stakeholders regarding project highlights and overall health
- Convey complex and/or difficult information effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences, including Executives
- Influence key decision-makers/stakeholders towards new business processes and technical solutions that best serve The Walt Disney Company
- Deliver quality solutions that provide desired business goals and/or solve reported issues on-time and within budget
- Dive into technical details, understanding and providing input on overall technical designs
- Identify scope of technical inputs and outputs as dependencies for other engineering teams
- Lead engineering teams through the identification and timely management of risks and the resolution of issues, escalating to management as appropriate
- Produce actionable tickets that inform engineering and quality assurance of desired outputs, utilizing Global Program Management standards to tag project work for effective status rollup
- Triage open/backlog items prior to sprint planning; collect and track sizing estimates for burndown reports; gain experience from past sizing and be comfortable sizing independent of engineering
- Collaborate with product partners to help define/scope feature requirements and work with software architects, technical leads, and product to determine how best to build our engineering solution and meet our overall requirements
Preferred Qualifications
- Extensive knowledge of distributed application software development life cycle, including microservices deployed into AWS as well as on-premise data centers
- Prior experience with or understanding of video processing & media streaming technologies
- Established experience with, or a willingness to learn back-end streaming media concepts and formats, such as Adaptive Bit Rate (ABR) encoding, encryption, HLS, CMAF, AC3 and HEVC
- Growing understanding of content distribution network (CDN) technologies/providers and commonalities for an upstream media provider