Staff Business Architect (Global Product & Labor Standards)
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At 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’re constantly looking for new ways to enhance these exciting experiences.
The Disney 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.
You will have the opportunity to join the Core Systems & Platforms team within Enterprise Technology. The team's vision is to design, build, integrate, and deploy highly effective and stable core business applications and platforms for the Enterprise and Corporate Functions.
We lead with a Business Architecture framework and own Core Finance function domain technology roadmap and management of the supporting platforms.
Responsible for translating business strategy, requirements, and desired outcomes into repeatable processes and product roadmaps for our supported platforms. We build collaborative relationships with our clients to understand their business processes and provide thought-leadership on digital transformation and business process management. We have a high-level view of the business and enterprise service management processes across the company and understand where processes interact or intersect. We also translate business strategy and process into requirements and outcomes for development, testing, and implementation. As well as demonstrate customer centricity and service orientation, by using business process management methodologies to guide stakeholders through process rationalization, product adoption, organizational change management, and digital transformation initiatives.
Supporting functions:
Trade compliance
Global Product & Labor Standards
Legal Regulatory Compliance
What You’ll Do
Responsible for leading business architecture projects, providing the bridge between business strategy, product management, and process execution on the platform.
Analyze and provide comprehensive business views of capabilities, end-to-end value delivery, organizational structure and their relationships to business strategies, policies, products, and stakeholders.
Partner with functional and technical teams across the enterprise to define, craft and deliver robust solutions that deliver business outcomes and align with industry standards.
Ownership of multiple process areas or business functions
Accountable for project team delivery and project schedules
Ensure the business architecture roadmap aligns with our strategic priorities, product roadmap, and program backlogs.
Collaborate with business and end-user communities to understand business process and elicit, define, and document requirements.
Define the priorities of agile team, managing the team backlog, and prioritizing the user stories, defects, and enablers.
Plan and lead projects using Business Process Management and Lean Six Sigma methodologies, including value-stream mapping and DMAIC.
Partner with engineering to develop test strategy and write test cases across the agile testing matrix (Unit, Functional, System, and Non-Functional)
Collaborate with engineering resources to execute tests, analyze results, and resolve defects.
Collaborate with partners on implementation, including training, change management, and communications.
Leverage knowledge of the requirements and past project delivery experience to help identify risks and prioritize tasks.
Own the full lifecycle of assigned projects including project and departmental budgets and forecasts.
Serve as a point of contact for critical issues and inquiries.
Act as a peer group leader to mentor and train staff on business analysis, business architecture, standards, and processes
Required Qualifications & Skills
A minimum of 7 years of experience leading multiple projects for large, multi-national corporation with multiple business units.
A minimum of 5 years in business architecture, business process management (BPM), or business analysis functions within a large enterprise
A minimum of 3 years of experience participating workflow, process, or development projects
Strong technology background and applicable technology skills
Knowledge of ITIL v3 or later and ITSM
Experience as a product owner, driving the outcomes for multiple products or sophisticated features.
Good communication, writing, and executive presentation skills
Able to translate ideas into understandable strategies, requirements, value statements, and business outcomes.
Preferred Qualifications
Certification in Lean Six Sigma methodologies preferred.
Education
Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.
The hiring range for this position in Burbank, CA is $136,038 to $182,490 per year and in Seattle, WA is 142,516 to $191,180 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.
About The Walt Disney Company (Corporate):
At Disney Corporate you can see how the businesses behind the Company’s powerful brands come together to create the most innovative, far-reaching and admired entertainment company in the world. As a member of a corporate team, you’ll work with world-class leaders driving the strategies that keep The Walt Disney Company at the leading edge of entertainment. See and be seen by other innovative thinkers as you enable the greatest storytellers in the world to create memories for millions of families around the globe.
About The Walt Disney Company:
The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise that includes three core business segments: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Experiences. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family. Disney’s stories, characters and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe. With operations in more than 40 countries, our employees and cast members work together to create entertainment experiences that are both universally and locally cherished.
This position is with Disney Worldwide Services, Inc., which is part of a business we call The Walt Disney Company (Corporate).
Disney Worldwide Services, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law. Disney fosters a business culture where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a rapidly changing world.
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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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For over 70 years, The Walt Disney Company has been entertaining consumers in Asia Pacific – and enriching people’s lives. Today’s consumer can discover new branded experiences in many ways and in many markets across the APAC region.
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