Systems Architect - VOD/Streaming

Our company is one of the world's leading providers of digital television entertainment services delivering a premium video experience through state-of-the-art technology, unmatched programming, and industry leading customer service to more than 32 million customers in the U.S. and Latin America.

Overview

Our client’s Architecture & System Engineering group is seeking technically savvy System Architect to support multiple ongoing and future projects in a fast paced environment. This position requires strong architecture skills, subject matter expertise in video content delivery and solid knowledge of conditional access.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Translate business requirements into architectural framework and design
• Work with business partners, application leads, project management group and other stakeholders to develop architecture and design deliverables
• Assess the architecture options and come up with recommendations that are in-line with the strategic vision for the enterprise wide best practices
• Support multiple projects as System Engineer providing technical leadership and oversight to ensure alignment with the original proposed architecture and design
• Proactively identify and suggest architectural improvements to as-is Systems
• Facilitate and lead in the evaluation and selection of commercial-off-the-shelf product evaluation, frameworks and open source platforms

Qualifications/Skills/Attributes

• Bachelor's degree (Engineering, Computer Science), Master's degree preferred
• 10+ years relevant experience as a Systems Engineer / Architect working in the Entertainment & Media industry
• Experience in coming up with high-level architectural design and technology roadmaps
• Understanding of latest trends and technologies including mobile based applications preferred
• Excellent problem solving, critical thinking and analytical skills, with strong interpersonal skills with a proven ability to collaborate without guidance
• Leadership qualities, including ability to facilitate technical discussions with diverse and cross-functional groups and good negotiation skills. Ability to influence others with ideas and proposed architecture options
• Ability to work in a fast paced environment with the ability to adapt and change priorities as the business needs change
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including ability to tailor communication to the target audience to achieve desired results
• Experience in Broadcast/broadband Television, Video-On-Demand, Pay Per View
• Understanding of video encoding, streaming and downloading on Internet
• Understanding of digital rights management
• Understanding of video content management
• Understanding of mobile technologies (mobile phones, tablets)
• Experience in identity management and industry standard frameworks such as OAuth, Open ID Connect, SAML, etc.

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