About The Company:

Founded in 1923, The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise with five business segments: media networks, parks and resorts, studio entertainment, consumer products and interactive media.

In 2014, Forbes reported that The Walt Disney Company ranked in the top spot of the World’s Most Reputable Companies - an annual list that is constructed by world-renowned private consulting firm Reputation Institute. Out of 130 companies evaluated, Disney and Google shared the No. 1 position this year.
Disney India is a leading Media and Entertainment company in India panning across various businesses like Digital, Movies, Television and Consumer Products.

Overall Purpose of the role:

- Responsible for overall software engineering and development.

- Lead and manage a team of software engineers / developers and analysts for designing, architecting, developing, implementing, analysing, documenting and maintaining in-house developed software applications for various businesses.

- Responsible for developing and communicating technology roadmap encompassing software architecture, program architecture, design and development standards for data architecture, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and code management for developing custom web, mobile, business intelligence and business applications. Expected to work on a variety of technology development platforms.

- The incumbent is expected to collaborate/work with business stakeholders, internal /external Infrastructure teams, Application/ Application Project Managers and cross functional regional Technology teams.

- Ensuring overall vision for in-house software development services, project/service delivery efficiency and productivity of the process to meet SLA.

Areas of Responsibility:

- Responsible for building and managing a multi skilled software development team to serve and support requirements in areas of Interactive Media, Gaming, Web, Digital Media, Consumer Analytics and other Enterprise applications/application interfaces.

- Should be proficient is choosing the right technology mix for the given requirement.

- Should be able to take the complete ownership of the software product development and related software sustainment operations going forward.

- Develops and communicates a technology roadmap encompassing software architecture, program architecture, design and development standards for data architecture, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and code management for developing custom web, mobile, business intelligence and business applications.

- Defines, and ensures compliance with the software and data architecture of complex systems, interfaces and/or services, including data architecture and data warehousing.

- Provide directions and guidance for overall application software development for above areas. They include variety of platforms ranging from Java, PHP, .NET, Oracle/MS SQL/My SQL database and Bigdata architecture Hadoop/Mongodb framework etc

- To participate and contribute in the development of WDI India’s vision and strategy for Business applications on existing and new business ventures.

- Responsible for building strong relationships with the business stakeholders, the departments within Technology areas and Technology teams in overseas regional offices.

- Recruits subordinate staff to include interviewing, hiring, assigning work, training, coaching, and counseling to ensure consistent application of Employee Guidelines, processes, and procedures. Conducts performance review, and holds employees accountable for performance of their positions.

- Develops work processes, communications, application functionality and data standards following SDLC, change management and project management best practices.

- Researches and recommends new technologies, development tools and development methodologies that allow the organization to remain adaptive and maintain a consistent architecture while providing quality products and services to our customers.

- Resolve conflicting demands of multi-project & multi-discipline teams, prioritising within business plan framework

- Lead/Manage teams and be accountable for deliverables of projects/solution

Education:

- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent qualification. Additional qualification e.g.; Technical Post Graduate degree would be preferred.

Experience:

- Minimum of 9 -13 years of experiences with at least 7 years of IT projects development & management experiences (preferably in Media & Entertainment Industry).

- Proven track record of working/delivering an enterprise level information strategies. Experience with developing web based B2C applications and in Cloud environment is must. Development for mobile devices is a plus.

- Good experience of customer relationship management

- Substantial experience of project, programme and portfolio management.

Technical credibility:

- Must have worked as software architect in past roles. Should be familiar with design and deployment of third party packages, in-house developed software, enterprise level external system interfaces and Big Data/ Cloud Frame works.

- Experiences in handling complex Digital Asset Management, Rights Management, Billing, Sales Systems, Consumer Analytics, Digital Media and collaboration software eg J2EE, Sharepoint will be preferred.

- Should be very familiar and knowledge with latest technology development frameworks and development tools.

- Demonstrable experience of being able to be the interface between business needs and technical solutions.

- Successful software engineering , software solution delivery and project management experience in a fast changing consumer/enterprise technology environment.

- Sound knowledge of IT industry, key suppliers and equipment.

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