Lead Data Engineer - Experimentation Platform - 1633
Disney · Santa Monica, CA
$100/hrfrom the description
Jul 1, 2026
Santa Monica, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior contract data engineering role focused on designing and building large-scale data platforms that support experimentation, analytics, and machine learning workloads. Day-to-day work spans batch and streaming pipeline development, dimensional data modeling, data quality and governance implementation, and CI/CD for production data systems. Suits an experienced engineer with 7+ years on distributed, cloud-based data platforms who is comfortable mentoring others and collaborating across product, engineering, and data science teams.
Senior level · 7+ years · Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA · Bachelor's required · Contract
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 15 people in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (database architects). range 5–25
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $159,165 (middle half $121,760–$182,057). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
Rate is stated as 'up to $100/hr on W2', so $100 is treated as both the min and max of the offered range.
This is a 6-month W2 contract engagement, classified as Contract.
The posting lists 'A/B Testing / Experimentation Platforms' and 'Data Quality & Data Governance' in the Must Have section at the top, but the Qualifications section frames experimentation platform experience as preferred ('Nice to Have'). The top Must Have list appears to be a recruiter-added summary; the formal Qualifications section is treated as authoritative for the required/preferred flag classification, so A/B Testing is marked preferred.
Data Governance and Data Warehousing/Lakehouse appear in the top Must Have list but are treated as methodology/concept context rather than named tools; they are captured via the ETL/ELT and Data Modeling skills and the Snowflake/Databricks stack.
The role is classified as Database Architects (15-1243) given its primary focus on designing and building large-scale data platforms, pipelines, and data models; Software Developers (15-1252) is a close runner-up given the significant software engineering and CI/CD responsibilities.
Work authorization restrictions (no OPT, CPT, H1B) are noted but cannot be represented in structured fields.
The posting specifies 4 days onsite per week in Santa Monica with no flexibility — this is a hybrid role, not remote.
Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): ML feature engineering, Infrastructure automation.
Posting is for a contract engagement — the market benchmarks below price full-time roles, so read the comp comparison with that in mind.
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