Solution Architect – VidiNet, Media Solutions

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Germany, +2 more countries.

📋 Description

• Take charge of the solution architecture for VidiNet Media Asset Management projects from the initial customer workshop to Go-Live.

• Lead customer discovery sessions to grasp business objectives, the current landscape, and constraints, and translate them into a target architecture.

• Create scalable, secure, and sustainable end-to-end media workflows that encompass ingest, processing, metadata, storage, and distribution.

• Define integration architecture with third-party broadcast and media systems, including Active Directory, scheduling platforms, playout, and content delivery networks.

• Generate solution designs, integration specifications, deployment topologies, and documentation for non-functional requirements.

• Hands-on implementation of complex solution components alongside the project team, including workflow configuration, scripting, and REST API-based integrations.

• Engage in system configuration, testing, commissioning, validation, and Go-Live processes with customers.

• Assist in pre-sales activities through technical scoping, effort estimation, and contributions to proposals, Statements of Work, and Change Requests.

• Identify technical risks, assumptions, and dependencies, and develop appropriate mitigations.

• Serve as the technical authority for project teams, guiding Professional Services Engineers and resolving design-level issues.

• Review designs and implementations to ensure alignment with the agreed architecture and VidiNet best practices.

• Conduct customer workshops, knowledge transfer sessions, and training.

• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to incorporate customer requirements into the roadmap and validate platform fit.

• Contribute to reference architectures, reusable patterns, and continuous improvement of delivery methodologies.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of experience in Professional Services, Solutions Engineering, or System Integration, with a minimum of 3 years in a solution or technical architect role.

• Demonstrated success in designing and delivering complex IT or media workflow solutions for enterprise clients.

• Experience in supporting pre-sales activities: scoping, estimation, and contributing to commercial proposals.

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.

• Profound understanding of broadcast and media workflows along with media asset management concepts.

• In-depth knowledge of video/audio codecs, metadata models, formats, and processing pipelines.

• Experience in designing REST API-based integrations, event-driven architectures, and web services.

• Strong grasp of data modeling and SQL/data-driven systems.

• Practical programming/scripting skills for daily implementation tasks (JavaScript, Java, Python, C#, or similar).

• Familiarity with Linux environments, containers (Docker), and Kubernetes.

• Strong skills in cloud architecture (AWS preferred), including storage, networking, security, and cost considerations.

• Ability to define and evaluate non-functional requirements: scalability, availability, performance, and security.

• Cloud architecture certification (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect) is a plus.

• Experience with OpenSearch/observability stacks is desirable.

• Familiarity with GitHub and CI/CD pipelines is advantageous.

• Experience in Infrastructure as Code and configuration management (Terraform, Ansible, Chef) is beneficial.

• Knowledge of architecture modeling approaches (e.g., C4, UML) is a plus.

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to lead technical discussions with customer architects, engineers, and senior stakeholders.

• Capacity to translate business needs into technical designs and technical trade-offs into business-relevant terms.

• Good judgment regarding scope: differentiating between out-of-the-box platform capabilities, configuration, and custom work.

• Structured, pragmatic, and adept at shifting between architecture decisions and hands-on implementation.

• Ability to mentor collaboratively.

• Customer-centric mindset with a dedication to delivering high-quality solutions.

• Proficient in English and German (both written and spoken).

• Willingness to travel occasionally (approximately 10%) for customer workshops and significant project milestones.

🏝️ Benefits

• Work in a dynamic, international environment with high-impact projects.

• Shape cutting-edge media technology solutions for clients worldwide.

• Collaborate in a highly skilled, team-oriented environment.

• Direct the technical strategy of complex, large-scale media workflows and integrations.

• Advance your career within a delivery-focused, innovation-driven organization.