About the role

What will you do at QVC Group?

Working at QVC Group means joining a live social shopping company with incredible teams, ambitious projects and amazing careers. QVC Group, Inc. is a Fortune 500 company with six leading retail brands - QVC®, HSN®, Ballard Designs®, Frontgate®, Garnet Hill® and Grandin Road. Your Opportunity, Your Team The Principal Platform Engineer supports QVC, and serves as a senior technical leader responsible for shaping the future of our enterprise database and data platform environment.

You will combine engineering expertise with strategic influence to ensure our database platforms are scalable, secure, resilient, and built to enable fast, reliable delivery across both on-premises and cloud ecosystems. Where You'll Work This role is remote; job seekers must reside in one of the following states to be considered: PA, NJ, DE. This role may require you to be on site in West Chester, PA as needed.

What You'll Do

Lead the design, evolution, and modernization of enterprise database platforms across cloud and on-premises environments, with a focus on scalability, reliability, performance, and security.
Define database engineering standards, best practices, and automation approaches that improve operational consistency and accelerate delivery.
Partner with architecture, engineering, analytics, and product teams to deliver resilient database solutions aligned to business and technology priorities.
Drive performance tuning, capacity planning, high availability/disaster recovery, and complex issue resolution across critical database environments.
Mentor engineers and act as a thought leader, helping elevate engineering standards and modern database practices across the organization.

What You'll Bring

10+ years of experience in database engineering, platform engineering, or data platform engineering within complex enterprise environments.
Deep expertise in relational and NoSQL databases, including strong experience with Azure database services, database modernization, and cloud adoption.
Proven success in performance tuning, automation, HA/DR, security, and governance, with the ability to influence stakeholders and mentor technical teams.
#LI-AZ1 Our Total Rewards package includes benefits you’ll love such as competitive compensation, paid time off, an employee assistance program, parental leave, paid volunteer hours, and amazing company discounts!
In our US market, you can also expect health care benefits starting on day 1, 401(k), and tuition reimbursement benefits.
QVC Group is committed to inclusion and belonging for all and ensuring that our workplace provides equal employment opportunities for all team members and candidates and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations.
As an equal opportunity employer, QVC Group is committed to a barrier-free employment process.
If you need reasonable accommodations/support throughout, please contact us at [email protected] for assistance.
If provided, salary ranges are a general guideline only, and actual salaries will vary and are based on factors such as a candidate's qualifications, skills, experience, and geographic location as well as business and market conditions.
Join Our Team!
QVC Group, Inc. is a Fortune 500 company with six leading retail brands – QVC®, HSN®, Ballard Designs®, Frontgate®, Garnet Hill® and Grandin Road®.
We are a live social shopping company that redefines the shopping experience through video-driven commerce on every screen, from smartphones and tablets to laptops and TVs.
QVC Group brings innovative products, compelling content, and unforgettable moments to millions of shoppers worldwide via social platforms, streaming apps, ecommerce sites and TV channels, making every screen a doorway to discovery, delight and community.
QVC Group has team members in the U.S., the U.K., Germany, Japan, Italy, Poland and China.
We’re an inspired and diverse team that comes together to combine shopping and entertainment for millions of highly discerning shoppers.
It’s a fun, fast-paced world, and what really sets us apart is our culture and talent experience.
Best of all, working with QVC Group means friendly teams, ambitious projects and fast-moving careers!
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Which skills does this role require?

Database EngineeringPlatform EngineeringAzure Database ServicesRelational DatabasesNoSQL DatabasesPerformance TuningAutomationHigh AvailabilityDisaster RecoveryCloud AdoptionDatabase ModernizationCapacity PlanningSecurity GovernanceTechnical LeadershipMentoringScalabilityAzureNoSQLCloud EcosystemsHA/DREnterprise DatabaseData PlatformGovernanceResilienceFortune 500RetailSocial Shopping

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