Department/Group Overview:

Disney Media & Entertainment Distribution (DMED) brings together the Company’s best-in-class product, technology, and commercialization teams together into one global organization. DMED is responsible for the P&L management and all distribution, network and engineering operations, sales, advertising, data, and certain key technology functions worldwide for the Company's content engines. DMED also manages operations of the Company's streaming services including Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+, and Disney+ HotStar, as well as domestic broadcast and cable television networks.

DMED Technology creates products, platforms, and innovations for the DMED Segment and The Walt Disney Company by driving the strategic development and use of technology, building scalable systems and products to empower our businesses and engage consumers. With global scale, local presence, and deep technological excellence, DMED Technology helps DMED and The Walt Disney Company optimize technology, platforms, and resources, while bringing creative ideas to life and creating industry-shaping approaches.

Job Summary:

As part of the Disney Media and Entertainment Distribution’s (DMED) technology team, you’ll be joining a group of passionate, dedicated technologists solving a range of interesting problems in innovative ways in an exciting and dynamic industry. We are looking for high-performing and motivated individuals who challenge the status quo and drive software innovation.

Our team is seeking a Lead Cloud Financial Analytics Engineer to join our team and lead our Cloud financial operations function within Infrastructure Engineering focused on leading and driving cloud cost transparency cost and usage analysis, process improvements, and contributing to product development requirements that drive efficient usage of our cloud platforms.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

• Develops reporting and billing analysis use cases, identifying technical requirements and business use cases for improved service delivery, utilization, and cost analysis
• Maintain, analyze, and continuously improve Cloud Service Providers utilization tracking, reporting, and forecasting
• Liaison with Cloud Service Providers, internal finance, business operations, and internal technology teams
• Lead the platform engineering and business operations team in the development and maintenance of cloud business operations key performance indicators and reporting processes
• Partner with Infrastructure Engineering teams to continuously improve Cloud Service Provider integration and configuration
• Organize and facilitate ongoing Cloud Service Provider and Cloud Operations performance reviews on behalf of stakeholders and Sr. Leadership
• Contribute to the development of actionable, self-service cost and usage visualizations for various stakeholder teams
• Partner with the Data Analytics team to identify cloud data pipeline and warehouse architecture improvement opportunities
• Drive cloud data quality and consistency improvements

Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:

• Minimum Qualifications:
• 8+ yrs of experience performing business analysis within a large enterprise covering both business and information technology domains
• 3-5+ yrs of experience using Agile SCRUM methodology
• 2+ years of analytical experience
• Strong written and verbal skills and ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical audiences
• Expert knowledge of and ability to use querying languages to extract and analyze data (e.g. SQL)
• Strong business process definition capabilities, including the ability to capture process flows visually according to standard methodologies
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Marketing, Business, or related field
• Deep knowledge & experience with Public Cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud
• Deep knowledge & experience in financial modeling of IT applications, systems, and infrastructure
• Familiarity with data exploration and data visualization tools like Tableau, Looker, Chartio, etc

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience developing test plans, test cases, test scripts and test reports on varied projects
• Experience with cloud data warehouse platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, etc
• and availability, servicing and financing preferred