Sr. Manager, Systems Engineering – Global Security Design & Engineering

Job Posting Title: Sr. Manager, Systems Engineering – Global Security Design & Engineering Req ID: 10154307 Job Description:

This role will be on-site at least 4 days per week for teamwork and collaboration!

Department Description:

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 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 Enterprise Technology mission is to deliver technology solutions that align to business strategies while enabling enterprise efficiency and promoting cross-company collaborative innovation. Our group drives competitive advantage by enhancing our consumer experiences, enabling business growth, and advancing operational excellence.

Team Description:

Global Security protects the people, properties, assets, information, and brand of The Walt Disney Company and its affiliated businesses. The Global Security Design & Engineering (GSDE) team delivers enterprise-wide security technology solutions that reduce complexity, enhance interoperability, and enable data-driven decision-making. GSDE centralizes the architecture, deployment, and lifecycle management of security platforms supporting multiple business segments across six international geographies.

What You’ll Do:

The Sr. Manager, Systems Engineering – Global Security Design & Engineering is a senior, hands-on technical leader responsible for defining, designing, and governing the architecture of Global Security’s core technology platforms. This role operates at the intersection of physical security systems, enterprise applications, and long-term platform strategy.

As the primary solution architect, this role ensures that systems such as access control, video management, and records management remain scalable, interoperable, and aligned to enterprise standards.

The Sr. Manager, Systems Engineering GSD&E drives proactive lifecycle planning, reduces reliance on aging technologies, and enables strategic reinvestment into modern, high-performing platforms. This role serves as the single accountable owner for architectural decisions, bridging Global Security, Enterprise Technology, and business stakeholders to ensure consistency, efficiency, and innovation across the security technology ecosystem.

Responsibilities:

Enterprise Architecture & Platform Strategy:

Serve as the lead architect for Global Security technology platforms, including access control (e.g., Lenel OnGuard), video management (e.g., Genetec Security Center), and records management systems.

Define and maintain enterprise architecture standards, ensuring consistency, scalability, and interoperability across regions and business segments.

Develop long-term platform strategies, including system lifecycle planning, modernization roadmaps, and decommissioning of legacy technologies.

Evaluate emerging security technologies and define adoption strategies aligned to business needs and threat landscape evolution.

Solution Design & Technical Leadership:

Design end-to-end system solutions that meet functional, operational, and security requirements across diverse environments.

Partner with Enterprise Technology engineers to align system designs with broader enterprise architecture and infrastructure standards.

Maintain physical and logical system architecture documentation to ensure alignment with production environments.

Standards, Governance & Optimization:

Establish and enforce minimum system standards, design principles, and governance frameworks across all Global Security platforms.

Develop user guides …