Technical Integration Manager

Technical Project/Integration Manager Amsterdam

Responsible for coordinating the design, development and test of several Backoffice components for high traffic VoD and OTT applications. Software development background required, with extended skills to assess and control project scope, risks, costs, timelines and resources.

Major Job Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Manage priorities and task for internal and external resources, according to the projects/programs roadmap

2. Enable the coordinated resources to proceed with their daily work, by timely eliminating obstacles and blockers

3. Manage several vendors or internal development teams through the solution design, development, test and delivery phases

4. Creation of project plans jointly with vendors/internal teams, from design to delivery, incorporating time and resources

5. Supervise vendor QA and component level load test

6. Supervise and control component releases to E2E integration, in time and quality

7. Ensure vendor deliverables like release notes, test reports, API documentation, architecture design updates, etc.

8. Coordinate the environment preparations (instantiation, configuration, data population, etc.)

9. Track and administrate JIRA tickets and Confluence documentation

10. Collaborate with E2E Architecture, UI development teams and E2E Integration teams toward the definition of project scope and project delivery plans

11. Manage interface to other teams and departments

12. Support to higher management by producing reports and presentations

Required skills and knowledge:

Bachelor Degree/Master Degree in Computer Science or other technical science
Fluent English
Analytical capabilities and attention to details
Extended experience in high traffic Back End solutions, from application development management and project management perspective
Ability to manage large scale projects including implementation/migration/upgrades;
Good understanding of software development paradigms and methodologies
Good knowledge of JIRA, Confluence, MS Project
Ability to coordinate and to work in large project teams, with multi-national and multi-functional characteristics
Good communication skills and mitigation capacity

Preferred skills & knowledge:

Experience in OTT (mobile apps, Smart TV apps)
Experience in VoD
Software development background
Experience in QA and load and performance testing
Knowledge of a CMS for media content
Knowledge of DRM, video encoding and playout