Head Of Pipeline
Deluxe Entertainment
Vancouver, BCThis was removed by the employer on 5/28/2020 4:36:00 PM PST
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Full Time Job
Method Studios is looking for an experienced Head of Pipeline for our Vancouver office to join our amazing team and help shape the evolution of Visual Effects technologies.
Mission
Support the local Software Department staff and liaise with all partners and stakeholders. Help facilitate the vision and execution of Program Management and Production Support.
Responsibilities
• Personnel Management and Development
• Manage and coach local Technical Directors and Developers, and liaise with remote teams of the department
• Eliminate impediments, resolve conflicts, and make decisions where teams cannot
• Support and coach Lean-Agile development mindset, values and practices
• Support Program Management
• Help facilitate program activities
• Make sure the department and partners are aligned and engaged with the vision and roadmap
• Software quality
• Co-own department-wide software development processes and documentation space
• Support DevOps and agile development practices such as CI/CD, automated tests, etc..
• Coach on best practices to produce high quality code and solutions and drive their continuous improvement
• Encourage simple solutions and clean design, reducing accidental complexity, and deduplicating solutions
• Production Support
• Liaise with production staff to make sure issues and requests are addressed by Technical Directors and Developers appropriately and timely
• Manage expectations and arbitrage priorities of production requests
• Coach Technical Directors with best show support practices
• Communication and Transparency
• Liaise with stakeholders to make sure feedback on features is given
• Facilitate engagement of stakeholders (production staff, system engineers..)
• Advertise and participate to information dissemination
• Communicate roadmap, progress and challenges of Program Management and Production Support to production and Senior Management
• Relation with Vendors
• Contribute to the evaluation of technology vendors and partners and provide feedback to vendors. Provide comparative analysis to senior management, documenting options, pros/cons, and ROI.
Qualifications
• Experience managing technology teams in the VFX industry
• Interest in modern software development practices such as Agile, CI, TDD and DDD
• Interest in lean/agile mindset and practices
• Excellent communication skills
• An approachable, proactive and accommodating attitude
• An excellent team spirit and warm personality
• Experience with distributed systems and service oriented architectures
• Experience with message queues and REST APIs