Software Engineer - Tech Lead

Job Description

The Job

Plans, leads and organizes the tech-ops activities related to Digital services including workflows. Duties and responsibilities include the development and implementation of new services, products, policies and planning the use of materials and personnel. Develops strategies and initiatives for the digital solutions and services. Recommends policies, development techniques, methods and/or processes; serves as expert advisor to internal/external clients. Implements strategies with direct impact on market / departmental / functional results. Focus on reliability, availability, performance and scalability of the products including security and efficiencies in general.

Serves as point of reference and subject matter expert on Content related workflows and integrations from the tech-ops standpoint.

Major Responsibilities
• Permanently seek out optimization opportunities of OTT/Digital platforms&workflows and technologies by working in tandem with architecture, development, PMO, Product, technology, digital Ops and support to ensure a high level efficiency of the services and workflows .
• Fluent and best in class communication among all the teams involved, achieving the most effective way to tackle, track, follow-up, escalate and wrap up issues and new requests development, to reduce the risks, impact and implementations and resolution time to market.
• Develop and track OTT/Digital related KPIs for the entirety products' lifecycles. Oversee existing processes and make recommendations to improve the current ones or bring new proposals.
• Act as a workflow and integration expert and as an escalation point on product and technology new developments, maintenance, issues debugging and fixing from the tech-ops standpoint
Assist on tracking milestones, prevent or eliminate roadblocks, evaluate feature sets and budgets of the projects to enable and facilitable the rollout, deployment and delivery of fixes, features, enhancements, etc.
• Look for and research for modern best practices, convenient coding frameworks and methodologies, market trends and continuously identify opportunities to improve processes and methodologies to maintain a high level of service. Collaborate and be a liaison among other technical and product areas to optimize strategies and to identify new customers' needs, tools and solutions as our tech stack evolves.
• Work with stakeholders and cross functional teams to define project scope, features and characteristics of OTT/Digital related technologies and assist in the coordination of the PMO, support functions and external partners to ensure the products accomplish and meets the business requirements and definitions.
• Support and help other areas to accomplish the goals effectively and coach, teach and evangelise those people who needs help or have less experience

Essentials
• 4+ years experience AWS, experience in solution design and architecture, setting up and managing environments, automation, scaling, elasticity, performance & security .
• Technology stack based on Python and AWS.
• Experience playing a leadership role across a broad set of cross-functional operational, technical, product and business teams Version control and repositories management GitHub, GitBucket, etc.
• Bachelor's Degree in Telecommunications, Electronics or Computing or equivalent years experience and knowledge in the matter.
• Advanced-Fluent English to speaking, (technical vocabulary)

Desirables
• Experience developing solutions OTT/Digital related at a large scale editorial, e-commerce or video service - B2B and/or D2C.
• Demonstrated success experience in having actively participated on the development (Java or .Net C#, JS, PHP, Python and bash scripting) of innovative mobile&web video-Streaming and OTT platforms or workflows.
• Agile Methodologies, API Restful design and development, metadata mapping and correlation, Systems architecture, DB Design and data modeling, scripting knowledge and high load and demand services is a plus.
• Dynamic Encoding, ABR, Analytics, AdSeving.
• Coding knowledge and experience (java, python, javascript, Node JS, etc) on known frameworks, scripting, automation. Capacity to handle code reviews, code analysis, debugging and propose refactoring and code optimization including profiling.
• CRM, Subscription and Payment Platforms integrations BI data insights analytics related to digital/online payment platforms.
• Akamai, Cloudfront or Level3 CDN - API-request/calls integrations Micro-Service architecturing experience is a plus.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rvok50-3-16-66-206-42 in your application.