Job Profile: Tech Lead - will act as the main technical interface point with assigned customers to ensure that channel go-live happens on time, with quality.
Key Responsibilities:
Be a partner to Project Manager and provide technical leadership during customer/platform calls.
Its a joint responsibility of the tech lead and PM to teach customers and educate them about whats possible and whats not.
Understand how the customer will deliver assets, metadata, playlists and write requirement specifications for the customization team.
Understand any other other automation / customization / reporting requirements and any other requirements from requirements, write requirement specs and cor-ordinate with internal Engineering/Customization
Work with customers and internal teams on any change in requirements.
Understand customer requirements and advise how to use Amagi s products and services to fulfil those requirements.
Work closely with Implementation Engineers to deploy and configure Amagi s and third party software solutions and esure the configurations and deployment are proper
Build trusting relationships with customers and partners
Adopt quality as mindset. Ensure everything being sent or delivered to the customer is tested and works as expected. Double check the technical work done by Product and Engineering team, Customization team, DevOps and/or implementation teams
Obtain deep understanding of ALL Amagi products and services
Guide, train and mentor Implementation Engineers
Work with Engineering team to understand new features and deploy new customer requirements which are otherwise not supported by product
Skillset and Expertise Required:
Expertise in Playout and Live orchestrations systems
Expertise in asset and metadata ingest and transcoding
Expertise in at least one scheduling systems
Expertise in at least one playout system and graphics insertion system
Experience in working with Transport Stream and various encoders
Expertise in stream delivery over internet technologies - SRT, Zixi, HLS, DASH
Expertise in stream delivery over fiber, ASI and SDI
Expertise in AWS media services - Medialive, Mediastore, MediaTailor etc
Knowledge of how EPG works
Good Communication Skills
Advanced Knowledge of various video codecs and standards
Advanced knowledge of how playout systems work
Good Interpersonal Skills
Good Communication Skills
Our ideal candidate has 7+ years of experience in the Media Technologies sector, with at least 2 of them in an external customer facing positions.
We are growing fast and we believe that people need to be together to collaborate and accelerate that growth, so this position does not allow telecommuting. The candidate has to be willing to work from the Amagi Headquarters. As most of our customers are in the US and Europe, the candidate is expected to work in Night hours on a rotational basis.
Job Classification
Industry: TV / Radio Functional Area / Department: Customer Success, Service & Operations Role Category: Non Voice Role: Technical Support - Non Voice Employement Type: Full time