Position: Associate Vice President - Broadcast Engineering

Purpose: This position will work in shifts to ensure seamless broadcast 24x7, for 365 days of the year.

Education: B.E. / B. Tech in Electronics

Experience: 10-15 years of Engineering experience in Broadcast Technology

Location: Mumbai

Reporting Relationship: Head - Broadcast Operations and Technology

Business/Channel/Function: Broadcast Operations and Network Engineering

Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage embedded infrastructure engineers.
• Plays a key role in defining initiatives and contributing to the strategic planning.
• Adapt in a quickly changing environment and interact with a broad customer base with diverse needs and functional responsibilities.
• Ensure product / project deliverables across the delivery teams are consistent, high quality and well documented
• Directly oversee, mentor, and develop the technical staff and supervise the technical delivery of these developers
• Provide leadership to direct-report and/or cross-functional teams
• Challenge the status quo through intellectual curiosity and natural inquisitiveness to look beyond the obvious for continuous improvement.
• Interface with both senior technology leaders as well as senior business leaders in order to accomplish business goals.
• Participate in various tactical and strategic meetings with all levels of leadership to advise and collaborate on solutions to current and future challenges
• Identifies opportunities to consolidate and/or optimize business processes through research and leveraging vendor relationships.
• Ensures that all security requirements are met or exceeded.

SPECIFIC DUTIES

• Install, test, document, modify and repair hardware and software related to video and network devices.
• Review nightly engineering reports and process requests for follow up support
• Coordinate with, and assist Ballpark Operations team to troubleshoot MLB broadcast related hardware and software.
• Provide support of video transmission systems, including routing, encoding and decoding, and other broadcast transmission related hardware
• Monitor, analyze and rectify technical faults in a variety of broadcast systems
• Testing and recommending equipment for future projects
• Perform initial setup of broadcast systems, including software configurations
• Create configuration and operational guides for hardware and software
• Support and assist in integration of broadcast system updates at remote locations.
• Perform preventative maintenance and updates of broadcast systems
• Work directly with other departments or vendors to resolve technical issues
• Provide regular status and system update reports to management.

Why join us?

Sony Pictures Networks is home to some of India’s leading entertainment channels such as SET, SAB, MAX, PAL, PIX, Sony BBC Earth, Yay!, Sony Marathi, Sony SIX, Sony TEN, Sony TEN1, SONY Ten2, SONY TEN3, SONY TEN4, to name a few! 

Our foray into the OTT space with one of the most promising streaming platforms, Sony LIV brings us one step closer to being a progressive digitally-led content powerhouse. 

Our independent production venture- Studio Next has already made its mark with original content and IPs for TV and Digital Media. 

But our quest to Go Beyond doesn’t end there. Neither does our search to find people who can take us there. 

We focus on creating an inclusive and equitable workplace where we celebrate diversity with our Bring Your Own Self Philosophy and are recognised as a Great Place to Work.

- Great Place to Work Institute- Ranked as one of the Great Places to Work for since 5 years 

- Included in the Hall of Fame as a part of the Working Mother & Avtar Best Companies for Women in India study- Ranked amongst 100 Best Companies for Women In India 

- ET Human Capital Awards 2021- Winner across multiple categories 

- Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence Award - Outstanding Learning Practices.

The biggest award of course is the thrill our employees feel when they can Tell Stories Beyond the Ordinary!