Job SummaryAt Disney, we’re storytellers. We make the impossible, possible. The Walt Disney Company 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 streaming, 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 are constantly looking for new ways to enhance these exciting experiences.The Enterprise Technology mission is to deliver technology solutions that align to business strategies while enabling enterprise efficiency and promoting cross-company collaborative innovation. The Enterprise Technology organization drives competitive advantage by enhancing our consumer experiences, enabling business growth, and advancing operational excellence.Core Systems & Platforms vision is to design, build, integrate, and deploy highly effective and stable core business systems and platforms for the Enterprise and Corporate Functions. We are responsible for advancing the Business and Enterprise Technology Strategy by creating shareholder value. We lead with a Business Architecture framework and own Core Finance function domain technology roadmap.The Software Engineer for Core Finance will be a part of the Core Systems & Platforms team within the Enterprise Technology organization. This role will be part of a finance transformation journey and contribute to the program, with the goal of delivering on time, on budget, on function.You will have the opportunity to be part of a team responsible for supporting our finance transformation. Initially, you will be part of the SAP ECC transition to S/4 Hana and its technology conversion leveraged by all TWDC segments and lines of business including, DPEP, Disney Entertainment, and Corporate functions.This is an estimated 12-month project hire placement, with no guarantee of permanent placement.What You Will Be Doing:The candidate must be able to work at the strategic program level and at the tactical project level. The successful candidate will need to mitigate risk while delivering quality throughout the process. Flexibility and the ability to prioritize in a changing business environment will also be key. Our team culture is business/customer focused, goal-oriented, collaborative, and driven to achieve results.This Software Engineer position is a critical technology role, responsible for designing and developing software in Finance technology platforms with focus on SAP Integrations between the larger finance ecosystem.This is an estimated 12-month project hire placement, with no guarantee of permanent placement.Specifically, this role will be responsible for developing software for:
Payroll
Source to Pay
Acquire to Retire (Fixed Assets)
General Accounting
Lease Accounting
HANA Sidecar
SAP Business Warehouse
Numerous other 3rd party applications
Responsibilities:
Design, develop and test high performance, highly scalable and flexible software solutions with focus on SAP S/4 integrations between internal and external systems
Oversee technical coding changes and ensure they are to Disney standard and the appropriate syntax for performance on a large-scale ERP system
Make recommendations on technical decisions for complex development scenarios requiring transformation from existing processes
Translate business requirements to integration design specification
Understand interdependencies of development changes, along with impacts to other cast members workstreams, and clearly communicate these impacts.
Oversees the requirements process; ensures traceability of high-level requirements throughout the program
Participates in data analysis activities as needed
Manage delivery by vendor resources, driving toward on time, on budget, and on function outcomes
Ensures effective, proactive and open communications, horizontally and vertically, in order to achieve transparency and clarity of program goals, progress and issues
Supports and actively works to create a healthy work team environment- bringing a measured response along with transparency and discipline to active discussions and communications
Ability to document and understand complex integration pipelines from 100s of different systems across the globe
Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study and equivalent work experience
Minimum of 5 years of related work experience
Experience in Technology engineering roles for large/enterprise software companies including financial, technical, and business stakeholder executive facilitation
Proven experience in managing and validating vendors’ work done on SAP applications
Strong understanding of data governance and data messaging platforms including Cloud
Experience with SAP ECC
Experience with SAP IDOCs
Experience with Web Service integration
Experience creating and modifying SAP jobs (SM37)
Experience with large data ERPs and understanding the performance impacts when writing code
Can quickly learn new processes and understand the impacts of development changes to internal and external processesExperience with SAP S/4 a plus
Experience writing ABAP programming language on HANA a plus
Experience with Fiori and SAP Enterprise Portal a plus
Experience with SAP BW and SAP BCS a plus
Strong understanding and experience with :
Experienced in “Data” projects using Agile, Iterative and/or Waterfall SDLC Methodologies
Experienced in extracting and documenting data and analytic requirements, working across all levels of users from senior executives to analysts
Track record of taking ownership and driving results
Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills with strong writing and speaking skills
Ability to think both strategically and tactically with good attention to detail
Demonstrated ability to execute delivery on large programs with multiple projects - prioritization, planning and task delegation
Proven experience in participating in complex technical projects with complexity across stakeholders, multi-functional teams, requirements, and implementations.
Ability to think logically, communicate clearly, and be well organized
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with SAP S/4
Experience with ETL Tools like SAP middleware.
POSTMAN software experience
Managing SAP BDC Sessions
Effectively partners with vendors to understand their approach to new solutions, architectural standards, and frameworks
Experience with SAP BCS
The hiring range for this position in Florida is 129,600.00 to $173,800.00 per year and in California is $136,038 to $182,490 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.Location: Orlando,FloridaJob 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 [email protected] 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.