Theme park operator scaling ops tech and ride reliability across 10,000+ team members
Universal Orlando operates North America's largest integrated entertainment resort with over 10,000 employees across rides, shows, hospitality, and food service. The tech stack reflects a mature operations business: Maximo (asset management), UKG Workforce Central (labor), Salesforce + Adobe (guest marketing), plus AWS + Snowflake for analytics. Hiring is accelerating in ops (121 open roles) and engineering (55), with pain points centered on ride downtime and maintenance costs—signaling active infrastructure modernization and a shift toward predictive maintenance and workforce optimization.
Notable leadership hires: Digital Transformation Director, Lead Architect, Art Director, Director Sourcing Procurement, User Acceptance Testing Lead
Universal Orlando Resort, part of Comcast NBCUniversal, operates a destination entertainment complex in Orlando, Florida with theme parks, resort hotels, dining, and entertainment venues. The organization employs over 10,000 team members across operations, engineering, hospitality, and support functions. Core business challenges include reducing ride downtime, improving maintenance efficiency, managing seasonal labor demand, and maintaining safety and quality standards across all guest-facing operations. The company uses enterprise asset management (Maximo), cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, Snowflake), workforce management (UKG), and guest engagement platforms (Salesforce, Adobe) to run daily operations and seasonal events.
Core systems include Maximo (asset/maintenance management), UKG Workforce Central (labor), Salesforce Marketing Cloud + Adobe Experience Platform (guest engagement), AWS + Snowflake (analytics), plus operational tools like POS, BMS, and Apache Spark for data processing.
Orlando, Florida. The company also has hiring activity in the United Kingdom and is actively recruiting across operations, engineering, HR, security, finance, and data functions.
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