Platform Manager - #2189212

Role Overview

Join a global Database Platform team responsible for shaping the strategy, standards, and delivery of enterprise database services. Working alongside the Head of Database Platform, you will help turn strategic objectives into executable programmes, ensuring technology initiatives deliver measurable business and operational value.

Key Responsibilities

• Translate database platform strategy into clear roadmaps, deliverables, and measurable outcomes.
• Drive execution across engineering, architecture, product, risk, operations, and business teams to achieve strategic objectives.
• Manage governance processes, reporting, risks, dependencies, and key decision-making forums.
• Support the ongoing development of on-premise Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) capabilities, including MongoDB and Microsoft SQL Server environments.
• Help introduce and scale distributed SQL technologies by contributing to architecture, operating models, automation frameworks, and service controls.
• Promote best practices across platform engineering, Infrastructure as Code, automation, CI/CD pipelines, reliability engineering, and secure software delivery.
• Identify capability gaps and coordinate cross-functional efforts to deliver scalable, secure, and resilient database services.

Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate will be a strategic technology leader with experience delivering complex platform, infrastructure, or transformation programmes in large-scale enterprise environments.

You'll bring:

• Experience leading technology strategy execution, platform transformation, or enterprise-scale delivery initiatives.
• Strong understanding of relational, NoSQL, and distributed SQL database technologies.
• Experience working with database platforms delivered through DBaaS, shared services, or infrastructure-centric operating models.
• Practical knowledge of Platform Engineering, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), CI/CD, automation, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders, align multidisciplinary teams, and drive delivery through complexity.
• Strong appreciation of security, resilience, recoverability, availability, and operational governance principles within critical technology services.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical audiences.

What Success Looks Like

You will play a key role in ensuring strategic database initiatives are successfully delivered, DBaaS capabilities continue to mature, distributed SQL solutions are introduced effectively, and database services meet the highest standards of security, resilience, automation, and operational excellence.