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Job Description
ABOUT THE ROLE:
As part of O&T Media Engineering, the Media Solutions & Architecture team sits at the crucial intersection of product, operations, brands, business units and software development organizations. We are responsible for delivering architecture designs and specifications, evaluating media components and emerging technologies powering content supply chains from ingest to B2B and B2C deliveries. We partner early, frequently and transparently to iterate on designs and architectures and identify opportunities to ease operational burdens, mitigate risks and enable scale for the business.
The Solutions Architect will:
1. Partner : with Infrastructure, Cloud Ops, Product, Ops, Eng/Development, Program teams, translate business and operational requirements to lead solution design with new workflows, media component integrations, within required timelines and budgets
2. Innovate : incorporate transformative technologies & workflows with cloud native capability, incl. support for on-prem
3. Develop : ability to codify designs, build reference architectures to support workflows & demonstrate value; continually partner with development teams thru implementation
4. Edge : debate positions objectively, drive decisions in a timely manner
5. Optimize : identify operational pain points and provide solutions to evolve supply chain to support
6. Integrate : services & media components leveraged across workflows and incorporate into design, solutions incl. microservices, setup, configurations for SaaS and hosted 3 rd party providers
7. Collaborate : connect the dots between internal teams & any disparate workflows to leverage existing tech and practices, reducing costs and time to market
8. Present : ability to present iterative designs, conduct roadshows for resulting solution recommendations and architectures; demo POCs with hands-on application
9. Advance : bring market, internal innovations to center of production, supply chain processes, e.g., operationalizing ML models
10. Market Focus : study emerging technologies, conduct analysis on build vs buy; evaluate vendors, track/drive roadmaps
11. Inform : educate/mentor partners with technology overviews and details, drive standardization with best practices for architectures & development practices
REQUIREMENTS:

• Experience with documentation of workflows, architectures, service and component level technical details
• Experience building reactive microservice architectures and distributed applications in the cloud
• Experience around service architecture, data modeling and integration patterns
• Strong understanding of security best practices
• Availability for advanced troubleshooting and support beyond customary business hours
• Strong written and oral communication skills and effective interpersonal skills fostering collaborative spaces, joint decision making
• Must be effective working in a geographically distributed team environment
• Exude enthusiasm, passion and energy with media, technology and solutions
• Strong understanding of design patterns/concepts including but not limited to Observer, Actor, Circuit Breakers, Bulkheads and Backpressure
• Experience with AWS and/or Microsoft Azure
• Experience with containerized deployment/environments i.e., Kubernetes, ECS
• Strong experience with large distributed systems, high availability and disaster recovery.
• Strong understanding of integration patterns and event driven design i.e., Kafka, Kinesis, EventBridge
• Experience with relational databases and non-relational databases
• Strong understanding of HTTP(S)/REST, gRPC and idempotent services.
• Experience with infrastructure as code

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• 7+ years proven track record with integrations, implementations of media technologies for content ingest & fulfillment workflows
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent degree
• Proficiency with at least one of the following languages: Java, Python, Go, Rust, JavaScript
• Experience working with Agile, knowledgeable on or learning for various development / dev ops methodologies
• Experience with Continuous integration/delivery.
• Experience with full text search technologies (Solr, Lucene, Elastic Search)
• Knowledge of various JavaScript libraries/frameworks i.e., React, Backbone, Angular
• Understanding of service mesh design and concepts
• Experience with data & analytics concepts, platforms, integrations
• Experience with ML/AI technologies in service of content supply chains
• Experiences with video technologies & supporting components, transport, transcode, packaging, incl. media file formats, machine vision technology, OTT devices
• Experience in media file workflows; including file ingest, fulfillment, delivery, and sub clipping in both cloud & on prem scenarios

Qualifications
• Must submit an attestation disclosing your COVID-19 vaccination status and, if partially or fully vaccinated, submitting your vaccination record no later than 7 days following commencement of employment.• Must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 at the commencement of employment or adhere to enhanced protocols in select work settings or where jurisdictionally mandated.• Must be willing to adhere to all Company COVID-19 workplace safety policies and protocols.
Additional Information
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