Description
My client is looking for an experienced Media Domain IT Architect who has IPTV and Web and Mobile Apps experience.
Task Description:
In order to accelerate my clients move towards Digital in the Media/OTT space, my client are urgently looking for an experienced IT Architect, with relevant and proven experience in the Media (IP)TV, Apps & Web) environment. You combine theoretical and conceptual knowledge with hands-on experience.
You will be a member of the Media Domain Architecture Squad which will be composed of Domain architects coming from different subject matter expertise.
Your main tasks will be:
- Collaborate to define the architectural blueprint that is needed to realize our Media roadmap. Your inputs will focus on the media aspects but you are also expected to think and act along the Group interests and guidelines. For this, you will closely interact with the Enterprise Architects and Domain architects
- Contribute to the already defined (short term) Media roadmap and fine-tune architectural view.
- Assess - from a high level point of view - new business opportunities as expressed by our business stakeholders. You do this according an agile methodology whereby high-level technical impact assessment is done and high-level cost assessment is made.
- Drive - together with the Media Architecture Squad - the architectural runway which is the technical enablers' roadmap (examples can be: micro-services enablement, authentication through Identity and Access Management, API and API Management, cross-platform development practices, digital enablers in general, ).
- Be an evangelist of technological innovations that accelerate our move into the Digital world.
- Challenge the existing ways of doing.
Experience:
5-10 years professional experience in the Media environment, among which, several years working as IT architect in an agile environment. IPTV and/or Web and/or App architecture and development experience is a must.
General skills:
- Technically savvy and interested in new digital technologies
- Invests - as a passion - time in these new technologies to understand them well and to assess how they fit or not into our architectural runway
- Excellent analytical skills -ability to quickly understand the big picture
- Synthetic skills
- Growth Mindset
- Presentation skills
- Motivating skills
- Team spirit, you are part of a Team of architects and are willing to share your knowledge and acquire knowledge from others
- Self-learner and fast learner
- Self-organizing
- Agile is not just a word but a firm belief
- Document writing skills. You document according the agile way of working.
- Fluently understanding and speaking English; knowledge of Dutch/French is a plus
Your profile:
Personality & Values:
We are looking for a high-profile architect, who
- Has a proven experience as an IT architect on digital media architectures.
- Is well acquainted with the different components of the Media solution at large (including IPTV, Web and Mobile Apps) or willing to learn the whole ecosystem quickly. As we move towards more T-shaped profiles in the Squads in general, we expect you to be specialized in a number of areas and also acquire a generic understanding of the specialized areas of your colleagues Domain Architects.
- Is able to clearly articulate and defend his/her views on the proposed architecture. At the same time, you are open to other suggestions that enrich the architecture.
- Writes comprehensive architectural documents.
- Is enthusiastic to learn about new technologies and is actively networking to that effect. You can define innovative architectural insights and routes forward based on new insights and convince other people of the need thereof.
- Learns fast.
- Understands how the architect role fits into an agile way of working.
- Organizes and leads meetings with internal and external partners.
- Reports and communicates in a clear way, depending on the audience (business, external partners, technical teams).
- Makes decisions or supports decisions with an open mind.