M+E Technology Job Board
Senior Cloud Solution Architect
Avid
Avid delivers the most open and efficient media platform, connecting content creation with collaboration, asset protection, distribution, and consumption. Avid’s preeminent customer community uses Avid’s comprehensive tools and workflow solutions to create, distribute and monetize the most watched, loved and listened to media in the world—from prestigious and award-winning feature films to popular television shows, news programs and televised sporting events, and celebrated music recordings and live concerts. With the most flexible deployment and pricing options, Avid’s industry-leading solutions include Media Composer®, Pro Tools®, Avid NEXIS®, MediaCentral®, iNEWS®, AirSpeed®, Sibelius®, Avid VENUE™, Avid FastServe®, Maestro™, and PlayMaker™.
Our digital audio and video solutions continue to revolutionize the art of creative storytelling, and have earned us hundreds of awards, including two Oscar® statuettes, a Grammy®, and 16 Emmys®. For more information about Avid solutions and services, visit www.avid.com, connect with Avid on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, or subscribe to Avid Blogs.
Avid Global Cloud & SaaS Practice
Avid is establishing a new team, the Global Cloud & SaaS Practice to focused on accelerating the transformation and delivery of Cloud and SaaS offerings across Avid.
Building upon the pioneering work with a small number of strategic accounts the Global Cloud and SaaS Practice will guide the entire customer lifecycle and lead in the development of the emerging continuous subscription-based value creation, sales CSM and delivery methodologies.
Within the scope of the Practice is Portfolio Strategy, Client Consulting, Overlay Sales & Solutioning, DevOpps & Onboarding, Delivery and Strategic Alliances.
The practice will operate in a matrix resource and management model with cross functional support across Sales, Marketing, Product Management and Services.
The Practice will consist of professionals with practical, in-depth industry experience. Drawing upon Avids wider global network to provide clients with immediate access to some of the latest industry knowledge, skills, resources as the plan, deploy and optimize their Media workflow and cloud strategies.
A senior technology specialist, experienced within the Media and Entertainment industry with the capability and credibility to engage with our customers technology teams to drive the solution design and ensure that designs are professionally defined and documented to position, Avid for success through profitable business growth.
Bring a depth of expertise to Avid and our customers on existing and emerging architectures and solutions to each engagement
Job Summary:
The Cloud Solution Architect brings a broad set of domain expertise and knowledge to drive Platform adoption through designing compelling end to end workflows in conjunction with Customers and third party contributors to build a platform based solution business in a range of deployments from on-prem, hybrid and Cloud.
The Cloud Solution Architect will be able to demonstrate accomplished achievements in industry technologies and or practices and apply expertise to the analysis of user requirements, take a lead role in advising, specifying, proposing and defining customer focused solutions to meet user expectations
Responsibilities & Duties:
Engage with Customers to scope and position Avid Everywhere, Media Central platform in delivering solutions to complex business pain.
Provide specialist technology and workflow support to solution design and sales teams for complex solution requirements
Provide expert services to the Services delivery, resellers and system integrators
Promote open solutions and interoperability based on supportable, sustainable approaches and technologies
Deep knowledge of technology standards and best practice in Design and implementation
Expert level skills in scoping and defining complex integrations.
Driving development engagement with third party partners.
Ability to work across functional teams, Product Management, Sales and Delivery
Provide a consistent reference approach to architecting on-prem Azure stack, hybrid and full cloud deployments to the worldwide Sales team
Be lead contributor to technical review process for cloud opportunities
Lead the technical engagement for pre-sales and Microsoft architects/black belts
Lead technical engagement between Sales and Avid product management, feeding back customer typical use case needs to help align our cloud strategy and priorities. Be contributor to cloud opportunity prioritization activities.
Lead technical engagement between Sales and Avid engineering, feeding back customer needs to help guide engineering implementation approach
Contribute to the creation of scoping tools and estimation data collection tools and work with Microsoft team to converge architectural design process
Build typical use case scenarios to set cost expectations for cloud implementations
Build typical hybrid and full cloud architectural concepts to support client engagement to build understandings of the Avid as a service.
Represent Avid at speaking events on hybrid and cloud workflows.
Mentor WW Presales architects team members to drive consistency and build capability in all regions
For Avid, recommend training and development activities to build competence and capability in the pre-sales Architects working
For Microsoft, recommend Avid specific training for Microsoft architects.
Gain appropriate Azure certification
Qualifications & Skills:
o 10+ years minimum experience of working with Broadcast / Enterprise Media systems
o Demonstrate knowledge and experience with Avid video products and workflow.
o Experience of complex technology and transformation projects.
o Solid grounding in the integration of complex solutions including networking standards.
o Positive attitude, strong organizational skills and a self-starter
o Excellent communication and ‘people skills’.
o Good planning and organizational skills
o Position requires 50-60% travel
Avid
Avid delivers the most open and efficient media platform, connecting content creation with collaboration, asset protection, distribution, and consumption. Avid’s preeminent customer community uses Avid’s comprehensive tools and workflow solutions to create, distribute and monetize the most watched, loved and listened to media in the world—from prestigious and award-winning feature films to popular television shows, news programs and televised sporting events, and celebrated music recordings and live concerts. With the most flexible deployment and pricing options, Avid’s industry-leading solutions include Media Composer®, Pro Tools®, Avid NEXIS®, MediaCentral®, iNEWS®, AirSpeed®, Sibelius®, Avid VENUE™, Avid FastServe®, Maestro™, and PlayMaker™.
Our digital audio and video solutions continue to revolutionize the art of creative storytelling, and have earned us hundreds of awards, including two Oscar® statuettes, a Grammy®, and 16 Emmys®. For more information about Avid solutions and services, visit www.avid.com, connect with Avid on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, or subscribe to Avid Blogs.
Avid Global Cloud & SaaS Practice
Avid is establishing a new team, the Global Cloud & SaaS Practice to focused on accelerating the transformation and delivery of Cloud and SaaS offerings across Avid.
Building upon the pioneering work with a small number of strategic accounts the Global Cloud and SaaS Practice will guide the entire customer lifecycle and lead in the development of the emerging continuous subscription-based value creation, sales CSM and delivery methodologies.
Within the scope of the Practice is Portfolio Strategy, Client Consulting, Overlay Sales & Solutioning, DevOpps & Onboarding, Delivery and Strategic Alliances.
The practice will operate in a matrix resource and management model with cross functional support across Sales, Marketing, Product Management and Services.
The Practice will consist of professionals with practical, in-depth industry experience. Drawing upon Avids wider global network to provide clients with immediate access to some of the latest industry knowledge, skills, resources as the plan, deploy and optimize their Media workflow and cloud strategies.
A senior technology specialist, experienced within the Media and Entertainment industry with the capability and credibility to engage with our customers technology teams to drive the solution design and ensure that designs are professionally defined and documented to position, Avid for success through profitable business growth.
Bring a depth of expertise to Avid and our customers on existing and emerging architectures and solutions to each engagement
Job Summary:
The Cloud Solution Architect brings a broad set of domain expertise and knowledge to drive Platform adoption through designing compelling end to end workflows in conjunction with Customers and third party contributors to build a platform based solution business in a range of deployments from on-prem, hybrid and Cloud.
The Cloud Solution Architect will be able to demonstrate accomplished achievements in industry technologies and or practices and apply expertise to the analysis of user requirements, take a lead role in advising, specifying, proposing and defining customer focused solutions to meet user expectations
Responsibilities & Duties:
Engage with Customers to scope and position Avid Everywhere, Media Central platform in delivering solutions to complex business pain.
Provide specialist technology and workflow support to solution design and sales teams for complex solution requirements
Provide expert services to the Services delivery, resellers and system integrators
Promote open solutions and interoperability based on supportable, sustainable approaches and technologies
Deep knowledge of technology standards and best practice in Design and implementation
Expert level skills in scoping and defining complex integrations.
Driving development engagement with third party partners.
Ability to work across functional teams, Product Management, Sales and Delivery
Provide a consistent reference approach to architecting on-prem Azure stack, hybrid and full cloud deployments to the worldwide Sales team
Be lead contributor to technical review process for cloud opportunities
Lead the technical engagement for pre-sales and Microsoft architects/black belts
Lead technical engagement between Sales and Avid product management, feeding back customer typical use case needs to help align our cloud strategy and priorities. Be contributor to cloud opportunity prioritization activities.
Lead technical engagement between Sales and Avid engineering, feeding back customer needs to help guide engineering implementation approach
Contribute to the creation of scoping tools and estimation data collection tools and work with Microsoft team to converge architectural design process
Build typical use case scenarios to set cost expectations for cloud implementations
Build typical hybrid and full cloud architectural concepts to support client engagement to build understandings of the Avid as a service.
Represent Avid at speaking events on hybrid and cloud workflows.
Mentor WW Presales architects team members to drive consistency and build capability in all regions
For Avid, recommend training and development activities to build competence and capability in the pre-sales Architects working
For Microsoft, recommend Avid specific training for Microsoft architects.
Gain appropriate Azure certification
Qualifications & Skills:
o 10+ years minimum experience of working with Broadcast / Enterprise Media systems
o Demonstrate knowledge and experience with Avid video products and workflow.
o Experience of complex technology and transformation projects.
o Solid grounding in the integration of complex solutions including networking standards.
o Positive attitude, strong organizational skills and a self-starter
o Excellent communication and ‘people skills’.
o Good planning and organizational skills
o Position requires 50-60% travel