Practice Head - Media Technology

Practice Head of specific technology domain for large scale development of End to End media systems and will be individually responsible for :

- Revenue Growth : Own the long-term road map and revenue target for the media segment.

- Identify and seed new service lines to achieve the revenue targets

- Drive effective strategies for lead generation and Go-To-Market approaches.

- Innovation Targets : Drive IP initiatives for the Media Practice.

- Plan and implement capability ladder/Practice roadmap for Practice for grooming/up-skilling and building high-performance resources in the practice for both in terms of the subject knowledge as well as career advancement.

- Drive cross-selling of service lines across accounts.

- Support Sales and Competency/Delivery heads in capacity forecasts.

- Emanate Thought Leadership in the form of discussion papers & white papers to create best in class practices and artefacts for Media Practice.

- Take co-ownership of Customer Meetings along with BU, Delivery & Competency heads.

- Ensure compliance to all risk and regulatory requirements; Timely closure of external/internal audit findings.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS :

Must Have :

- Bachelor/Master of Engineering with 20 to 25 years of experience in enterprise server software, media streaming and cloud deployments

- MBA from reputed institutions preferred.

- Hands on experience in managing E2E Media system and client development & integrations

- Knowledge on DVB, CAS, DRM and related technologies

- Experience in managing deployments with deliveries from different vendors

- Ability to manage large teams across remote sites

PREFERRED SKILLS :

- Media Technology Solutions design & development

- Media Production house services & solutions

- Android Stream, Web, SmartTV Stream, iOS App Stream

- Virtualization and cloud deployment

- Tools : CVS, SVN, ANT, Bitbucket, Gradle, SonarQube, Sonar Scanner, JIRA, GIT, Gerrit, Jenkins

- Familiarity with Continuous Integration and Agile methodologies

Company Profile : Our Client is the global leader in design and technology services Company.