Technical Director

Job Description

Paramount Tech is hiring a Technical Director for Platform Engineering on the Media Supply Chain team. As Technical Director, you will strike a balance between team management, project oversight and technical contribution for a team focused on the development and support of a core media asset management system within the Paramount Global media supply chain.

Primary Responsibilities:
• Manage a team of approximately 15 software engineers in an Agile project environment.
• Act as technical owner for the development and support of a media asset management system.
• Function as the technical leader for a team of software engineers.
• Ensure the team is adhering to software engineering best practices.
• Facilitate technical design sessions; contribute to system design.
• Provide guidance and mentoring to our engineering team.
• Manage the production deployment cycle to ensure timely and trouble-free application deployments.
• Partner with our Product organization to determine and organize feature and support priorities.
• Partner with our scrum master to ensure sprints are run smoothly and effectively.
• Communicate with peers and leadership in matters regarding the team and its projects.

Basic Qualifications:
• 10+ years designing and writing software.
• Experience as a lead software engineer on an application or API development project.
• Experience managing software engineering teams.
• Experience acting as software engineering liaison to leadership and other teams.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Additional Qualifications:
• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent.
• Capable of managing time between hands-on technical tasks and team management.
• Working knowledge and experience with software design concepts – design patterns, object oriented design and development, composition vs. inheritance, data structures and algorithms, etc..
• Experience with data modelling and relational database development.
• Fluent with converting business requirements to technical designs.
• Experience with a variety of programming languages and development environments. For example, C#/.Net, Java, Golang, PHP, shell programming.
• Experience with Git and Git-based version control systems.
• Experience with automated build technologies – Jenkins, Azure DevOps or Bamboo.
• Experience with Amazon Web Services, building, deploying, supporting applications in EC2.
• Experience with Docker and running applications in containers.
• Comfortable with creating presentations for technical and business audiences.
• Must have the ability to mentor engineers and guide technical growth and career development.

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Paramount is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) including disability/vet.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d50e01-18-117-70-132-42 in your application.