Job Description
Principal Software Architect - iOS (NY or REMOTE)
The CBS Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of ViacomCBS, creates and distributes industry-leading content across a variety of platforms to audiences around the world. The Company has businesses with origins that date back to the dawn of the broadcasting age as well as new ventures that operate on the leading edge of media. It includes some of the industry's most successful and popular brands and businesses: CBS Television Network, CBS News and Stations, CBS Sports, CBS Studios, CBS Media Ventures and CBS digital properties.
Brand/Division Overview
Paramount+ is a fast-growing streaming platform, offering services across web, mobile, and OTT devices. CBS became the first broadcast company to create a paid service without partnering with a paid cable provider. In short, we broke new ground in the industry by providing robust, interactive services with unprecedented access to local content. At the same time, we built an innovative and exciting work environment to inspire and reward the cutting-edge ideas, creativity, and technical/operational expertise of our managers and employees.
Role Details
ViacomCBS is looking for a Software Architect to collaborate with engineering leadership and product development to deliver architectural solutions for a best in class global streaming service. This is an exciting opportunity to work on a high profile product that is integral to the growth and future of ViacomCBS.
This highly collaborative individual will play an end-to-end role from understanding the goals and roadmaps for the product as well as other engineering teams, through the design and architecture of any solution and the delivery and maintenance of those platforms once in place.
You will participate in the definition of product requirements being able to articulate how the engineering effort will align to those requirements and provide accurate estimates of the effort.
Remote option available.
Your Day-to-Day
• Hands on architecture and development of Paramount+ and CBS iOS and tvOS Applications
• Propose, review, document and maintain key technical decisions, standards, practices, and policies
• Collaborate with various teams to execute projects in a timely manner
• Maintain an awareness of best practices in the technology industry and implement as appropriate
• Creates and maintains architectural roadmaps to support the implementation of the future architectural vision. Propose migration paths for future strategies.
• Creates business and technical architectures, leading the process from conceptual to physical design, specifying functions and documenting effectively.
• Conduct complete analysis of complex technical and business problems, including those involving multiple systems, customers, platforms, and technologies.
• Continually improves work procedures and processes for the team
• Mentor and guide team members, provide technical oversight and leadership necessary to accomplish work.
• Effectively communicate highly technical information to business partners and staff
• Establish architectural principles, recommend design patterns, and mentoring team members in their appropriate application
• Establishing benchmarks on application performance and working with engineering teams to ensure that features are built in a way that does not compromise
Key Projects
• You will be working closely with US and international engineering teams for the development and expansion of Paramount+.
• You will participate in technology standards-setting initiatives within ViacomCBS
• You will be architecting modular and scalable applications
Qualifications
What you bring to the team:
• 10+ years of development experience and expert knowledge of Apple application development
• Experience working across multiple interdisciplinary teams
• Experience working with distributed teams
• Experience working with high volume applications, media companies is a plus
• Experience providing technical training and coaching to engineering teams
• Successful track record of designing and architecting solutions
• Passionate about application performance and knows different techniques to do optimization
• 4+ years of experience with Swift
• Experience with Swift Package Manager and XCode Server; Ability to assist other engineers as necessary
• Excellent Git skills; Ability to assist other engineers as necessary
You might also have:
• Experience with DevOps, Continuous Integration and build tools.
• Prior experience with adaptive video streaming technologies, digital advertising platforms, and/or analytics integration
• SwiftUI / Combine experience
• Experience as an Apple developer trainer or author of training materials for engineers
• Expertise with TDD and be an avid supporter of writing tests
Paramount is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) including disability/vet.
Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d9xb94-3-81-144-39-42 in your application.