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We support client areas including Disney Entertainment (ABC, The Walt Disney Studios, Disney+, Hulu, ESPN), Disney Experiences (Theme Parks, Cruise Line, Consumer Products, DVC), Corporate Finance, and others, with strategic applications that enable science-driven decision-making and drive business value. To be successful, collaboration with partnering DDSI executives, Global Information Security, Enterprise Technology & Data, segment-specific technology leadership, project managers, client leaders, and technical subject matter experts in a matrixed environment is necessary.

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Department Description: Do you love creating new capabilities by combining your expertise for infrastructure, data, and user experience? Do you value curiosity, nurturing technical talent, and collaborating to create new business value via innovation? The Disney Decision Science and Integration (DDSI) team leverages advanced technologies, genAI, analytics, and scientific approaches such as optimization, machine learning, simulation and statistical modeling to build innovative software as a service (SaaS) that shape business decisions across The Walt Disney Company. We support client areas including Disney Entertainment (ABC, The Walt Disney Studios, Disney+, Hulu, ESPN), Disney Experiences (Theme Parks, Cruise Line, Consumer Products, DVC), Corporate Finance, and others, with strategic applications that enable science-driven decision-making and drive business value. Team Description: As a Director, Decision Science Technology , you are a versatile engineering leader responsible for building the strategic SaaS applications that deliver DDSI’s science to the business. You will lead a multi-disciplinary team that builds AI-powered products driven by our sophisticated ensembled models, featuring embedded AI, conversational interfaces, and agentic capabilities. You are equally adept at guiding teams focused on scalable data platforms as you are those building sophisticated software applications. Without refined, high-quality data input, algorithms are not useful. This pivotal role is for a leader passionate about building AI-powered teams that build AI-powered products, owning the end-to-end technology stack from data ingestion to user interface. To be successful, collaboration with partnering DDSI executives, Global Information Security, Enterprise Technology & Data, segment-specific technology leadership, project managers, client leaders, and technical subject matter experts in a matrixed environment is necessary. This leader will champion a relentless pursuit toward our own operational excellence, as well as innovation via data-driven business capabilities. What You’ll Do: + Team Vision: Develop and keep relevant a vision for team in a fast-paced, complex and evolving arena. Foster a high-performing team of technologists and drive a culture of excellence, innovation, and deep collaboration with the science organization, the AI/ML engineering organization, and all partner teams. + AI-Powered Delivery of AI/ML/Science Products: Own the technology delivery for a portfolio of decision science applications driven by a range of science algorithms. Deliver across the entire development lifecycle, from technical design to deployment, for intelligent applications featuring quantitative AI/ML, agentic workflows and conversational AI. + Strategic Leadership: Provide ambidextrous technology & data oversight. Manage a high-performing team in a matrixed environment. Lead, mentor, and grow an evolving & blended team of software engineers, data engineers, solution architects and platform specialists. Cultivate a unified, agile culture that excels at tackling both complex data challenges and sophisticated application development. Define and evolve the technology skill mix, career paths, and hiring strategy required to support DDSI’s long-term rapid SaaS speed-to-market vision. + Full-Stack Architectural Vision: Oversee the technical, data, and system architectures for analytic platforms and solutions. Provide strategic leadership on the long-term technical vision, including data modeling, microservices architecture, API design, and the advanced tooling required to enable intelligent, interactive applications. + AI-Powered Productivity: Foster a culture of innovation by leading the adoption of AI tools within the development process (e.g., code assistants, automated testing) to enhance team efficiency, speed of code development, test creation and execution, and improved documentation. + Design Patterns Definition: Develop roadmaps for reusable capabilities, tools, and agents to harmonize with the portfolio milestones & deliverables while simultaneously raising the bar on standard expectations for deployed solutions, including automated metrics and validation, user-algorithm interactions, and standard features for robust, reliable and secure solution design. + Operational Excellence: Ensure the reliability, scalability, and security of all production applications. Champion the development of standard operating procedures, quality assurance, and automated monitoring to maintain a healthy and sustainable technology portfolio. Define success metrics and OKRs, establishing clear baselines and targets, and continuously tracking outcomes to inform prioritization and optimize results. + Technical Debt & Modernization: Proactively identify and remediate technical debt within the existing products. You will balance the "velocity of new features" with the "stability of the core," ensuring that our internal SaaS products remain modern, patchable, and secure. + Cross-Functional Partnership: Collaborate closely with peers across organizations to ensure successful product delivery. Partner closely across functional areas to lead directly and via collaboration in a matrixed environment, with emphasis on strong communication, interpersonal collaboration and change management skills + Change Management: Connect business partners, clients and team with processes improvements and the adoption of the latest business, science and technology standards and best practices + Stewardship: Ensure all platforms and services are designed with security, privacy, and compliance principles embedded by default. Drive cost‑aware platform design and responsible scaling of storage and compute workloads, balancing innovation velocity with sustainable cloud economics. + Communication Agility & Influence: Operate effectively at all levels of the organization, translating complex technical concepts into business value for clients and executives, and providing clear strategic direction for your technical teams. Demonstrated interpersonal skills, with ability collaborate effectively with colleagues ranging from entry-level professionals to high-level executives. Required Qualifications & Skills: + 12+ years in software engineering, including hands-on system design and delivery of distributed, cloud-based applications. + Experience leading multiple engineering teams (application, platform, data, DevOps) through managers, with accountability for end-to-end delivery and operations. + Expertise in modern architectures and practices, including microservices, APIs, cloud-native design, and scalable, resilient systems. + Strong technical stack experience, including Python, React (or similar), SQL/Snowflake, CI/CD, Docker/Kubernetes, and AWS (or equivalent). + Proven ownership of engineering strategy and architecture, including roadmaps, platform modernization, and technical debt management. + Experience delivering and operating enterprise-scale platforms, with focus on reliability, performance, scalability, and security. + Track record of building and leading high-performing engineering orgs, mentoring leaders and driving engineering excellence through metrics and standards. + Strong Agile/SDLC execution, including CI/CD, automated testing, and observability. + Excellent stakeholder leadership and communication, translating technical decisions into business impact. + Experience leading large-scale transformation, including cloud migration and engineering modernization. + Ability to manage portfolios, including prioritization, budgets, and delivery across multiple teams. + Set the strategic direction for generative AI adoption across the software development lifecycle while leading the delivery of enterprise-grade AI products powered by sophisticated agentic workflows. Preferred Qualifications: + ITIL certification(s) Required Education: + Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study and/or equivalent work experience Preferred Education: + Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related discipline, or MBA #DISNEYTECH The hiring range for this position in Orlando, FL is $217,800 to $292,100 per year and in Burbank, CA is $228,700 to $306,700 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. Job ID: 10150754 Location: Lake Buena Vista,Florida Job Posting Company: The Walt Disney Company (Corporate) The Walt Disney Company and its Affiliated Companies are Equal Employment Opportunity employers and welcome all job seekers including individuals with disabilities and veterans with disabilities. If you have a disability and believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or apply for a position, email Candidate.Accommodations@Disney.com with your request. This email address is not for general employment inquiries or correspondence. We will only respond to those requests that are related to the accessibility of the online application system due to a disability.

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Florida Polytechnic University, opened in 2014 as the state's STEM-focused public university, offers high-value undergraduate and graduate degrees with intentional industry connections. Foreign Transcript: Transcripts issued outside of the United States require a equivalency statement from a certified transcript evaluation service verifying the degree equivalency to that of an accredited institution within the USA.

Adjunct Faculty - Computer ScienceJOB DESCRIPTION SUMMARYJoin Florida Polytechnic University - Florida's all-STEM public university and the #1 public college in the South - as a part-time adjunct instructor in Computer Science. In this role, you will engage high-achieving undergraduate math,science, and engineering majors in face-to-face classes.JOB DESCRIPTION KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES <ul><li>Face-to-face course development and delivery skills. </li><li>Excellent oral and written communication skills. </li><li>Teaching and industry experience preferred. </li></ul>MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS <ul><li>Master's degree from an accredited institution with at least 18 credit hours in the discipline. </li></ul>COMPENSATION:Starting salary will be commensurate with years of teaching or professional experience. APPLICATION DEADLINE DATE: <ul><li>Positions are open until filled (or recruitment canceled). Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the positions are filled. </li></ul>APPLICATION PROCESS: To apply, submit PDFs of the following documents through the Florida Polytechnic Careers Website: <ul><li>Letter of Application that addresses your teaching experience or philosophy. </li><li>Curriculum Vitae </li><li>Names and contact information of at least 3 professional references </li><li>Unofficial copy of transcripts for the highest degree earned. Official transcripts will be required upon hire. Transcripts issued outside of the United States require an equivalency statement from a certified transcript evaluation service verifying the degree equivalency to that of an accredited institution within the USA. This report must be submitted with the application. </li></ul>ABOUT FLORIDA POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY Florida Polytechnic University, opened in 2014 as the state's STEM-focused public university, offers high-value undergraduate and graduate degrees with intentional industry connections. Dedicated to preparing students to make significant contributions and become leaders in STEM fields, Florida Poly integrates foundational STEM knowledge and skills with applied, project-based learning. The University prioritizes hands-on learning in small classes guided by world class faculty who serve as instructors, mentors, and researchers. Florida Poly's ultra-modern campus is located in Lakeland, along the I-4 High Tech Corridor between Tampa and Orlando. With no state income tax and a high standard of living, Lakeland and Central Florida continue to rise among the best places to live and work. Click here to explore Lakeland, Florida. DIVERSITY STATEMENT:Florida Polytechnic University is an equal opportunity/equal access institution. It is the policy of the Board of Trustees to provide equal opportunity for employment and educational opportunities to all (including applicants for employment, employees, applicants for admission, students, and others affiliated with the University) without regard to race, color, national origin, ethnicity, sex, religion, age, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or genetic information. Employment is contingent upon eligibility to work in the US. An appointment is not final until proof is provided. FLORIDA POLY BENEFITS INFORMATIONFlorida Poly qualified employees have the opportunity to take advantage of a variety of health benefits (through the State of Florida) to help meet their specific needs, as well as the needs of their family. This comprehensive coverage includes flexible spending accounts, medical and life insurance, and worker's compensation. Health benefits are administered through People First, on behalf of the State of Florida, as pre-tax insurance plans. People First handles all new hire enrollments, coverage changes, premium administration, and dependent eligibility. Their Service Center is staffed Monday through Friday, from 8 a.m.-6 p.m. EST, at 1-866-663-4735. RETIREMENTFlorida Poly offers great options for retirement. From the required selection of a state plan to additional voluntary retirement plans, our employees have many opportunities to save and prepare for their future. Click here for more information. FLORIDA POLY BENEFITS<ul><li>Perks and Discounts </li><li>Annual Leave <ul><li>To help promote work-life balance, Florida Poly provides a generous leave program, which includes paid time off and paid holidays. Qualified employees may accrue 22 days of annual leave. In addition, the University observes the holidays listed in our University Holidays policy FPU-1.008. </li></ul></li><li>Sick Leave <ul><li>Qualified employees may also accrue 12 days of annual sick leave and participate in our Sick Pool Program. </li></ul></li><li>Employee Assistant Program (EAP) </li></ul>EXPLORE LAKELAND FLORIDAConveniently located along I-4 between Tampa and Orlando, Lakeland is home to Florida Polytechnic University and many other businesses and attractions. Click here to explore Lakeland, Florida. SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS REGARDING ATTACHMENTS:Required attachments are listed on each posting. Please be sure to attach all required documents in the Resume/CV field before continuing through the application. Once your application has been submitted, no changes may be made and additional attachments will not be considered. An unofficial copy of the degree/transcript is acceptable during the application process. 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This leader is a strategic partner across The Walt Disney Company, optimizing synergies, protecting and building Disney’s reputation, and delivering exceptional Guest experiences across theme parks, resorts, cruise lines, and signature experiences worldwide. The Vice President, Animals, Science & Environment is a highly visible global leadership position within Disney Experiences, responsible for setting and executing the company’s vision for animal wellbeing, environmental sustainability, and conservation impact.

The Vice President, Animals, Science & Environment is a highly visible global leadership position within Disney Experiences, responsible for setting and executing the company’s vision for animal wellbeing, environmental sustainability, and conservation impact. This leader is a strategic partner across The Walt Disney Company, optimizing synergies, protecting and building Disney’s reputation, and delivering exceptional Guest experiences across theme parks, resorts, cruise lines, and signature experiences worldwide. Key Responsibilities Inspirational Leadership & Business Results + Partner across all levels of The Walt Disney Company to drive business growth, foster environmental sustainability, and champion diversity, equity, and inclusion. + Develop and operate high quality Guest Experiences across multiple locations that are efficient in labor, provide excellent animal welfare, and are highly utilized + Identify and implement new revenue-generating opportunities and business optimization practices. + Optimize business unit synergies—leveraging our creative content and operational footprint to protect wildlife and habitats while sharing compelling stories with Guests. + Protect and build Disney’s reputation, both proactively and reactively. Environmental Sustainability + Partner with Disney Global Public Policy to development and implement environmental goals and targets for The Walt Disney Company and Disney Experiences. + Lead strategy development for environmental goals across Disney theme parks, resorts, cruise ships, and consumer products. + Lead Environmental Governance process for Disney Experiences. + Collaborate on sustainability tactics relating to infrastructure and operations across all global parks and resorts. Conservation & Philanthropy + Co-develop and implement meaningful conservation strategies with Enterprise Social Responsibility. + Align conservation initiatives with corporate philanthropic priorities. + Leverage Disney Intellectual Property for conservation impact. + Develop and maintain partnerships with leading external zoological and conservation organizations. + Serve as a board member and representative with key conservation entities. Reputation Management & Content Integrity + Serve as primary executive contact for animal welfare agencies, external partners, and media on animal and nature issues. + Oversee responsible and accurate portrayal of animals and nature in Disney productions across all platforms (Disney+, National Geographic, Marvel, Pixar, etc.). + Lead risk management for animal and nature-related issues, including content assessment and environmental impact of new developments (e.g., Shanghai Disney Resort, Disney Lookout Cay). + Oversee assessment of third-party animal and nature experiences for Guest excursions. Animal Care, Welfare & Guest Experience + Provide strategic vision and direct leadership for all animal areas in Disney Parks & Resorts, ensuring safety, inclusion, and exceptional Guest experiences. + Lead two AZA-accredited zoological institutions, and ensure Disney’s recognized leadership status in the zoological profession (AZA/WAZA). + Represent Disney on relevant boards and industry associations. + Oversee the production of key nature-focused media content to drive awareness and advocacy and build the Disney brands. Collaboration & Business Integration + Liaise with film studios, National Geographic Partners, and related channels to align content, partnerships, and business opportunities. + Align National Geographic excursions and Adventures by Disney Guest offerings with animal wellbeing best practices and conservation impact. Required Qualifications & Experience + Proven experience with at least 7 years of demonstrated executive leadership in animal science, environmental sustainability, or related fields—ideally within a global, high-profile organization. + Demonstrated ability to develop and execute large-scale environmental and conservation strategies. + Strong experience with cross-functional team leadership and external stakeholder management. + At least 15 years of deep experience with zoological operations, animal welfare, and Guest experience delivery with proven business results. + Track record of building organizational reputation and managing sensitive media/agency relationships. + Success in leveraging brand and intellectual property for social and environmental good. + Board-level or executive experience with leading industry or conservation organizations preferred. + Bachelor’s Degree or advanced technical degree in animal science or related field is required. The hiring range for this position in Florida is $236,000 to $316,500 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. Job ID: 10152555 Location: Lake Buena Vista,Florida Job Posting Company: Walt Disney World Resort The Walt Disney Company and its Affiliated Companies are Equal Employment Opportunity employers and welcome all job seekers including individuals with disabilities and veterans with disabilities. If you have a disability and believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or apply for a position, email Candidate.Accommodations@Disney.com with your request. 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