Senior End-to-End Architect

Company Description
NBCUniversal owns and operates over 20 different businesses across 30 countries including a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment television networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, world-renowned theme parks and a premium ad-supported streaming service.
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Job Description
Our Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) portfolio is a powerhouse collection of consumer-first brands, supported by media industry leaders, Comcast, NBCUniversal and Sky. When you join our team, you'll work across our dynamic portfolio including Peacock, NOW, Fandango, SkyShowtime, Showmax, and TV Everywhere, powering streaming across more than 70 countries globally. And the evolution doesn't stop there. With unequalled scale, our teams make the most out of every opportunity to collaborate and learn from one another. We're always looking for ways to innovate faster, accelerate our growth and consistently offer the very best in consumer experience. But most of all, we're backed by a culture of respect. We embrace authenticity and inspire people to thrive.
A Senior End-to-End Architect provides architectural design oversight across multiple development projects working closely with Business/Product stakeholders at an early proposition stage to shape Technology's approach to support a product/proposition. This role will require on-going engagement and close collaboration with other architects, software delivery teams and external partners where the Senior End-to-End Architect will define an appropriate solution to deliver a product or proposition; providing specific expertise and support around key areas such as content acquisition, media supply chain, video playout, content management systems, data platforms, infrastructure and data security.
Job Responsibilities

• Shape the architecture across the breadth of the technologies that support NBC Universal OTT products.
• Take a leading end-to-end architectural role, driving collaboration across multiple technical and agile development teams between US and Europe to deliver the next generation of Direct-to-Consumer world-class video distribution platforms for on-demand, linear and live content.
• Be an acknowledged expert who can represent the capabilities of NBC Universal's technologies in the evolution of our Direct-to-Consumer business strategy, including the evaluation of potential initiatives and their financial justification.
• Communicate across all levels of the technology organization and to senior business stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 8+ years experience operating effectively in a technical leadership role responsible for architectural definition and direction across an estate of comparable scale and complexity.
• A demonstrable faculty to know how and when to build a consensus as much as how to take a more direct decision, if deemed more adequate.
• Proven track record of taking the lead and defending the best solution when consensus cannot be reached.
• Exceptional communications skills assisted by an aptitude to produce diagrams and design documents of executive quality.
• An ability to assess the technical detail required to reach a broad diversity of stakeholders from deeply technical subject-matter-experts to non-technical business stakeholders.
• A well-exercised ability to cut through complex amorphous problem-domains to isolate the key issues and provide clear, concise, and well-reasoned directions.
• Ability to "look around corners" for the business, selecting solutions for the long-term strategy.
• Understands the needs of business, product, and technology. Demonstrates the ability to apply this knowledge to architecture design.
• A multi-discipline technology all-rounder with a broad knowledge of the technologies used within web and media industries.
• An enquiring-mind with a relentless interest in wider technology trends and their pragmatic application to business challenges.
• An exercised ability to balance and compare costs and benefits of different solutions.

Desired Experience

• Operating high-scale AWS systems
• High scale / public cloud-based OTT video distribution platform.
• OTT Video delivery to diverse clients (mobile, tablet, PC, Connect TV, Games Console, STB) over varied access networks (WiFi, 4/5G, DSL, Docsys, FTTH.)
• Mezzanine Video Contribution Technologies (ZiXi, SRT.)
• Live and VOD video encoding (H.264, HEVC/H.265, H.266.)
• Video packaging and OTT streaming (DASH, HLS, CMAF.)
• DRM solutions (Google Widevine, MS PlayReady, Adobe Primetime, Apple FairPlay.)
• CDN architecture and cloud-based deployment.
• Enhanced video technologies (UHD HDR, Dolby ATMOS, client and server-side dynamic ad insertion, low latency streaming.)
• HTML-5 / mobile device / smart TV / JS-based video player.
• Capture and analysis of Video Quality and User Experience Metrics.
• Monitoring and management of video delivery for live, linear and on-demand content.

This position is eligible for company sponsored benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and a variety of other discounts and perks. Learn more about the benefits offered by NBCUniversal by visiting the Benefits page of the Careers website. Salary range: $150,000 - $185,000
Additional Information
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