Technical Integration Manager

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Senior: Supervisory/advisory role; Highly specific skillset or technical training; Advanced educational credentials required; Greater prior experience in this role (5+ years)

Summary: Responsible for supporting the strategic delivery of middleware solutions. Delivers integration solutions incorporating architectural/development guidelines, standards/principles, and which are on time and on budget.

Education/Experience: Bachelor's Degree in IT or other technical studies; Oracle experience (e.g., Oracle Application Server (Weblogic), Oracle SOA Suite (OSB, SOA), Oracle RDBMS); experience with Linux/Unix; continuous integration experience with Atlassian suite (Bamboo, JIRA, Confluence); experience managing matrix organizations delivering IT implementations and involving multiple software application integrators

Skills and Competencies: Proven ability to review code (SOA, OSB, Java); experience in telecom. IT solutions; application mgmt.; working knowledge of in debugging and analyses of complex issues within large scale integration platforms; experience working with design teams and contributing to overall service platform design in multiple customer environments; ability to coordinate and to work in project teams; ability to technically manage large scale projects including implementation/migration/upgrades; communication skills; analytical capabilities

Major Job Duties and Responsibilities

1. Participate in definition of project scope by assessing impact on timelines, effort, quality, cost and risks based on information from early stages of project life cycle (requirements analysis, solution design)

2. Identify program technical dependencies, manage cross-functional teams to drive, track and deliver all necessary IT components and data alignment to complete the delivery and testability of the E2E solution.

3. Create middleware project plans with vendors from design to go-live incorporating time and resources needed and assembles these into a delivery roadmap

4. Contribute to functional designs and assure they are clear, consistent and complete and can be translated into viable technical solution conforming to architectural guidelines, standards, blueprints, etc.

5. Guide and monitor detailed technical designs from vendors to ensure solutions are provided as defined in high level and functional designs

6. Perform technical vendor management related to project: day-to-day management of vendor activities, review/QA of vendor deliverables

7. Coordinate and monitor software delivery from vendors assuring quality of deliverables

Job purpose: The role is a key integration & deployment position responsible for the Technology service implementation of Entertainment and OTT Entertainment Products & Services across LG's 12 EU countries in order to enable the delivery of revenue growth primarily across our B2C unit.

The role is accountable for Production Integration, deployment and field trial for the assigned projects and services, ensuring timely delivery of technically ready products and services across Liberty Global's footprint. Key Accountabilities:

Perform integration and deployment activities with country teams, vendors and LGI teams as per the agreed plan. Contribute to the deployment plans and project logs (risks, issues, decisions, changes…etc.) Work with Delivery & Product teams to gather clear & documented specifications and requirements for the deliveries or assigned projects Define accordingly the entry and exit criteria for the assigned department activities

Provide regular updates to the project lead and manager Contribute to document, coordinate and perform Technical Field Trials. Provide associated test results and reports. Has engineering expertise to contribute to Production Integration with Operations and other teams Contribute to document, coordinate and perform the handover to Operations teams, ensure that all criteria are met and that the required documentation is created/updated and delivered Support Operations and QA Team on investigation of issues, coordinates resolution of issues and defects within technology and with external vendors Preferred education/ qualifications: MSc degree level in a relevant area (network-, communications- or consumer electronics engineering) Fluent spoken and written English

Knowledge & Experience

• Experience in the telco, cable or satellite industry (pref. 5+ years)

• Experience in System Integration or Deployment of B2C video services (pref. 5+ years)

• Experience and very strong knowledge of DTV, OTT, IP TV, On Demand platforms and Video Delivery technologies (pref. 5+ years)

• Experience with working in an international and distributed team environment (pref. 5+ years)

• Strong technical knowledge and integration & deployment experience around Video encoding/transcoding, CAS, DRM, Video back-ends, workflows, security services, Application Services, CDN, TV, VoD, nPVR, Access technology, and Internet technology related. (should have experience with minimum 3 of the requirements)

• End-to-End and deep technical understanding of TV platforms and Back Office system technology & ecosystem, architecture & flows, with real hands-on experience, in particular in service platforms (HW and SW), user interfaces, Apps and media acquisition/management, processing and distribution. (very important)

• Understanding and experience of IP and broadcast networking, including troubleshooting of connection and routing issues (pref. Wireshark and Charles)

• Proficient in UNIX.

Duration 6 months

40 hours a week

Resume in English