Staff Software Engineer - EPM Engineer

The Walt Disney Company • Burbank, CA • 55min ago

Job Requirements

At Disney, we're storytellers. We make the impossible, possible. The Walt Disney Company (TWDC) is a world-class entertainment and technological leader. Walt's passion was to continuously envision new ways to move audiences around the world-a passion that remains our touchstone in an enterprise that stretches from 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're constantly looking for new ways to enhance these exciting experiences.

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

Team Description

This role is located within the Enterprise Products Organization under the Financial Value Chain business solutions area. Finance Value Chains will be delivering Priority Business Solutions aligned with the enterprise architecture for the Financial Planning (EPM) value chain.

The P4 Sr. Software Engineer is a Staff-level technical leader responsible for the architecture, technical direction, and end-to-end reliability of the Oracle EPM applications used across the Walt Disney Company. This role goes beyond individual feature delivery to own cross-module architecture decisions, set engineering standards for the team, and mentor other engineers - while remaining a hands-on, technical individual contributor.

What You'll Do

Technical Architecture & Standards

Architecture Ownership: Own the technical architecture and roadmap for Oracle EPM applications (Planning, FCCS, Data Management) supporting Disney's Financial Planning value chain, ensuring design decisions scale across modules and integrations.

Standards & Best Practices: Define and enforce coding, scripting, and integration standards for Calculation Scripts, Groovy, and EPM Integration Agent/REST API development across the engineering team.

Technical Governance: Lead architecture and design reviews for new EPM features and integrations, ensuring solutions align with enterprise architecture principles and long-term platform stability.
Complex Feature & Integration Leadership

End-to-End Ownership: Own delivery of the most complex, cross-module EPM initiatives, translating ambiguous business requirements into scalable technical designs with minimal oversight.

Advanced Data Pipeline Design: Architect secure, resilient data pipelines connecting Oracle EPM to on-premises and cloud systems (e.g., SAP, Snowflake, upstream/downstream finance applications), optimizing for reliability and auditability.

Performance & Scalability: Lead deep-dive diagnostics on the most demanding Essbase calculation scripts and business rules, driving platform-wide performance and capacity strategy rather than one-off fixes.
Technical Leadership & Mentorship

Mentorship: Mentor Sr. and mid-level EPM engineers, elevating scripting practices, code quality, and troubleshooting rigor across the team.

Cross-Functional Leadership: Serve as the principal technical liaison between engineering and Finance/FP&A stakeholders, shaping requirements and negotiating tradeoffs at the roadmap level.

Escalation Authority: Act as the senior-most technical escalation point for production issues, owning root-cause resolution for the most critical cross-module failures.

Peer Review Leadership: Own the code and design review process for the team, raising the bar on engineering rigor for configurations, scripts, and integration endpoints.

Required Qualifications & Skills

Minimum of 7 years of technical experience in software engineering, with deep, demonstrated concentration in Oracle EPM architecture.

Domain Mastery: Advanced expertise across multiple Oracle EPM modules (Planning, FCCS, Financial Consolidation and Close, Data Management), with a proven ability to architect solutions spanning modules.

Scripting Mastery: Expert-level Calculation Script, Groovy, and Python scripting, with a track record of setting scripting standards adopted by other engineers.

Data Management: Deep proficiency with multidimensional databases (Essbase), MDX queries, and enterprise-grade integrations via EPM Integration Agents or REST APIs.

Engineering Leadership: Demonstrated experience leading technical design, driving engineering best practices (Git, testing frameworks, structured deployment pipelines), and setting technical direction for a team.

Execution Mindset: Proven ability to balance strategic architecture work with hands-on delivery and production support at scale.

Independence & Ambiguity: Track record of taking abstract, enterprise-level business strategy and translating it into concrete technical architecture with full autonomy.

Preferred Qualifications

Finance experience, ideally within Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) or Corporate Finance, is a plus

Experience serving as a technical lead within Agile/Scrum environments is a plus

Media & Entertainment experience is a plus

Oracle EPM Certification is a plus

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

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Disclaimer

PAY TRANSPARENCY

The hiring range for this position in Burbank, CA is$158,100 - $211,900 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.

This position is with Disney Worldwide Services, Inc., which is part of a business we call The Walt Disney Company (Corporate).

To learn more about Disney's guidelines on the use of AI for candidates, click here. (https://join.disneycareers.com/global/en/ai-usage)

Disney Worldwide Services, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Disney champions a business environment where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a constantly evolving world.

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