Technical Solutions Director

Recruiter
Confidential
Location
London
Salary
Competitive
Posted
08 Oct 2020
Closes
05 Nov 2020
Job Title
Associate Director
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Technical Solutions Director

Central London – Flexible Working

Excellent Salary + Benefits

MBN's client an advanced TV advertising agency is in search of a Technical Solutions Director to join their team.

The Technical Solutions Director will support its platform development team with a dedicated technical support function and will work within the product team, collaborating closely with their development partners.

The successful candidate will shape a technical support function for the business's proprietary advertising technology platform.

Experience within the industry is highly desirable but not required.

Responsibilities:

* Programme direction of the company's technology development, working closely with both external development teams and internal teams.

* Working with the Head of Platform development and Chief Product Officer to track ongoing backlog of feature requests and business priorities across markets

* Oversight of the collaboration and communications tools for the product team and interaction with business partners.

* Work with both partners and internal teams to coordinate the launch of new product capabilities

* Provide first line support, training and reference documentation as well as working closely with development partners to identify and resolve technical issues and enhancements.

* Management of bugs, enhancements backlog as well as the creation of training and user administration plans

* Performance monitoring and usage reporting

Requirements:

* Sound understanding of database development and reporting dashboard design

* Use of data manipulation and visualisation tools

* Strong analytical capabilities – being able to identify and interpret trends and provide clear recommendations

* Python experience and proficient using SQ is advantageous

* Experience using bash

* Understanding of cloud computing especially GCP

* Experience using serverless

* Experience handling large data sets

* Some exposure to GAE, Big Query, restful APIs, open API v3 is desirable