Role Overview & Mandate
Executive Summary
Red Bee was born in media and for the past 15+ years we have made significant contributions to the development of the global media industry,...
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Red Bee was born in media and for the past 15+ years we have made significant contributions to the development of the global media industry, empowering the world’s strongest media brands, broadcasters and content owners to instantly connect with audiences anywhere at any-time. Our partners include BBC, Channel 4, ITV, Canal+, ExtremeE, TV5MONDE and many others.
We are truly a global company, working across borders in 175 countries, offering a diverse, performance-driven culture and an innovative and engaging environment where employees enhance their potential every day. Our employees live our vision, core values and guiding principles.
About this opportunity
As a Solution Architect, you are part of the Technology Architecture team that sits within the Technology Solutions function. Your role can be customer facing and is accountable for the solution during the entire project’s lifecycle, from the initial client requirements gathering through to implementation and acceptance.
This role remains the point of technical authority on the Solution through the process and will work closely with Pre-sales, Product, PMO, Technology Domain leads and Operations teams to design solution which encompasses the full Red Bee portfolio of Access Services, Content Discovery services, Broadcast & Media services, OTT and Media Hive services.
What you will do
- Work with customers and presales teams to fully understand and define solution requirements
- Ensure full alignment within Red Bee teams, including Operations, and with the Customer as to the scope of requirements and deliverables; identify potential gaps with initial proposal or risks and address these early through the change requests or as otherwise agreed
- Identify as earliest as possible items within project scope which deviate from standard existing Product features, and engage with Product and Platforms teams to gather Product steering, assess development feasibility, costs impact, and timeline implications
- Work with project management to provide necessary inputs, and ensure that business case is accurately costed for the technical components, and reflects provisional timeline
- Throughout the project lifespan, report to Project Manager on issues, risks and mitigation plans related to the Solution delivery
- Develop high quality technical presentations and provide customer presentations to support project execution, and potential growth through change requests
You will bring
- Extensive experience in understanding customer requirements and mapping them to technical capabilities to deliver the required outcome
- Experience of crafting Solutions in one or more of the following Technology domains is preferable: Playout, Media Management, Access Services, MCR, Production, Content Discovery, Post-Production, Contribution and Distribution.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to present complex technical concepts in an engaging and accessible way for both technical and non-technical audiences
- Solid understanding of the Red Bee portfolio of services, with deep technical knowledge of Red Bee Platforms’ technical capabilities and limitations
Encouraging a diverse and inclusive organization is core to our values at Ericsson, that's why we nurture it in everything we do. We truly believe that by collaborating with people with different experiences we drive innovation, which is essential for our future growth. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and realize their full potential as part of our Ericsson team.
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Primary country and city: United Kingdom (GB) || United Kingdom : London : London
Req ID: 715798
