The Olympic Channel is a digital-first, multiplatform global Olympic media entity, where fans can experience the power of sport and the Olympic Movement all year round. The primary objectives of the Olympic Channel are the following:
- Provide a platform for the continuous exposure of Olympic sports and athletes beyond the Olympic Games period and help create anticipation while providing opportunities to "re-live the experience" after the Games.
- Continuously highlight the relevance of the Olympic Movement's ideals to the challenges of today's world.
- Provide a platform for sharing the IOC's very rich assets and archives with the world and create additional value and content for the IOC archives.
- As a matter of priority, engage and influence the younger generations around the world using methods that are relevant to them, building understanding, entertainment, and education.
The Olympic Channel team is composed of experienced broadcast professionals and innovative content-producers working out of two main bases of operation. The commercial and distribution departments are located at the IOC headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, and the technical and production units operate out of Madrid, Spain.
Job Description
The Senior Digital Platform Engineer is responsible for optimizing iteration speed, solve common challenges related to the digital platform technical performance and act as glue among multiple teams such as product, development and engineering Olympics.com.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Defining and implementing the necessary systems and processes to have a 360 vision on the Platform i.e. digital properties technical performance by proactively measuring, monitoring, evaluating and identifying technical performance KPIs and metrics to support business to increase engagement and retention.
- Analysis, definition and supervision of the metrics and data to improve technical performance focusing on the critical KPI defined by business units.
- Designing and building internal platforms and tools to optimize project delivery processes, solve common and recurrent problems and educate the team on the best practices.
- Consolidate technical requirements, propose adequate technical solutions and coordinate the global design in cooperation with the system integrator and management.
- Liaise with creative, production and commercial teams to align desired workflows with the technical solutions.
- Ensure global technical project coordination with the various stakeholders.
- Implement and manage digital delivery systems and methodologies.
- Design, manage and maintain tools to automate operational processes.
- Responsible for overseeing evolution and assurance of the QA/UAT strategies to control and improve the technical quality of the Platform by defining, deploying and managing monitoring, metrics and logging systems.
- Coordinate on site / off-site commissioning, create test procedures and manage acceptance testing phases.
Skills. Requirements & Qualifications
- University Degree in IT & Computer Science required (Master’s Degree Advantageous)
- A range of 5-7 years of experience in a similar role. Preferably someone with previous management experience for minimum of 5 years in digital platforms like OTT: video centric online and/or mobile platforms.
- Experienced in managing design and installation of platforms in multi-vendors and multi-models (installation, operations, services) environment.
- Systems Integration experience around DRM, CRM, Ad Servers.
- Proven experience designing solutions using Public Cloud resources (AWS). Outstanding understanding of web services technologies: SOAP, RESTful APIs and JSON.
- In depth experience in video/ mobile architecture and applications.
- Experience on UAT, functional and non-functional testing cycles, tools and frameworks. Working with SEO and SEM analytics tools and on coordinating campaign with Google and other search engines.
- Proven development experience in web applications using MVC pattern or similar
- Experience with automation/configuration management using Puppet, Chef or an equivalent.
- Professional verbal and written English language.
- Capable of handling multiple projects simultaneously with tight timelines.
- Ability to work under pressure, independently and without guidance and supervision.
Good to have (Knowledge of):
- Experience in Project Management, desired PM certification.
- Proficient skills in system-oriented programming languages (Python, Bash, Perl, PHP, Ruby)
- Complete knowledge of HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript frameworks/libraries.
- Knowledge in monitoring, analytics and metrics in the above platforms.
- Experience writing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and end-user documentation (ex. Confluence, WIKI)
- Experience with Scrum or other agile software development practices.
Workplace & Environment
- Fast-paced work environment, knowing we make an impact to how we deliver Sports Content/ Stories around the World.
- Permanent position is based in Madrid, Spain.
- 30% Flexibility in Working from home
- Available to travel occasionally (10%), if required by immediate Supervisor.
- Subject to national/international criminal background checks.
