Manager, Platform Engineering & Database Services

About the Role & Team 

The Enterprise Technology mission is to deliver solutions that align with business strategy, drive enterprise efficiency, and foster cross‑company innovation. We focus on enhancing consumer experiences, enabling business growth, and advancing operational excellence. Within this organisation, the International Application Services (IAS) team provides enterprise technology solutions that empower growth and deliver value across brands, geographies, and business units.  

Platform Engineering is responsible for ensuring that application deployment platforms are well‑designed, reliable, and aligned to the needs of Corporate International’s business applications. The team drives DevOps practices across IAS, championing automation, continuous improvement, and operational excellence. Our Database & Insights capability combines robust SQL Server management with meaningful reporting and analytics, ensuring secure, high‑performing data platforms and the insights needed to support data‑driven decision‑making across the business.  

Values

You’ll join a team grounded in our Disney values — acting with Integrity, welcoming everyone through Inclusion, embracing boundless Creativity, working together through Collaboration and caring deeply for our Community. These values shape how we work and how we support one another every day. 

What You Will Do 

• This role provides leadership for International database administrators and platform engineers within the IAS team. It is accountable for the direction and strategy of Database Services and Platform Engineering, ensuring our platforms remain secure, reliable, scalable, and aligned with business needs across both on‑premise and cloud environments. 

• In addition to operational excellence, the role will have the opportunity to help grow our Data Insights capability — covering BI reporting, dashboarding and light analytical work. The manager is expected to stay current with developments in database technologies, cloud data platforms, BI tools, and modern engineering practices to deliver continuously improving services and clear, actionable insights for stakeholders. 

Job Responsibilities 

• Provide strategic direction of the database services and platform environments 

• Responsible for the smooth running and operations of MS SQL Server Infrastructure for over 500 databases across International 

• Responsible for the smooth running and operations of platforms (on-prem and cloud) for over 25 Corporate Business Applications 

• Ensure the high availability of all the services and that they remain scalable to support transparent growth 

• Provide observability across all supported systems and platforms 

• Ensure all platforms remain fully secure and adhere to GIS compliance and standards 

• Develop and introduce standards and good practices across all disciplines 

• Identify areas for automation to increase team efficiency 

• Maintain a high level of technical expertise by keeping up-to-date with the latest industry changes 

• Collaborate closely with IT stakeholders in determining workloads and roadmaps 

• Collaborate closely with business stakeholders in designing and implementation of ETL's and Reports 

• Manage and mentor team members (based in UK, Argentina and India) 

Required Qualifications & Skills  

• Microsoft Windows  

• Microsoft SQL Server  

• Microsoft SQL Server - Analysis Services  

• Microsoft SQL Server - Reporting Services and PowerBI  

• Microsoft SQL Server - Integration Services  

• Disaster Recovery & High Availability  

• Third-Party Monitoring and Observability tools  

• PowerShell  

• Git (GitLab)  

• Azure Experience 

• CI/CD (GitLab Pipelines and Octopus Deploy)  

• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform and Ansible)  

• AWS Experience  

• Azure Data Factory 

The Perks   

• 25 days annual leave 

• Private medical insurance & dental care 

• Free Park Entry: You will have the opportunity to enter any of our parks with your family and friends for free 

• Disney Discounts: you are entitled to discounts on designated Disney products, resort F&B and ticketing 

• Excellent parental and guardian leave 

• Employee Resource Groups – WOMEN @ Disney, Disney Mosaic, Disney PRIDE, our disability & neurodiversity focused group - ENABLED, and our Mental Health & Wellbeing Group, TRUST. 

The Walt Disney Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strive to be a diverse workforce that is representative of our audiences, and where all can thrive and belong. Disney is committed to forming a team that includes and respects a variety of voices, identities, backgrounds, experiences and perspectives.  

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.