Solution Architect – VidiNet, Media Solutions

• Own the solution architecture for VidiNet Media Asset Management engagements from first customer workshop through Go-Live
• Lead customer discovery to understand business goals, existing landscape, and constraints, and translate them into a target architecture
• Design scalable, secure, and maintainable end-to-end media workflows covering 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
• Produce solution designs, integration specifications, deployment topologies, and non-functional requirements documentation
• Implement complex solution components hands-on with the project team, including workflow configuration, scripting, and REST API-based integrations
• Participate in system configuration, testing, commissioning, validation, and Go-Live with customers
• Support pre-sales through technical scoping, effort estimation, and input to proposals, Statements of Work, and Change Requests
• Identify technical risks, assumptions, and dependencies and define mitigations
• Act as technical authority for project teams, guide Professional Services Engineers, and resolve design-level issues
• Review designs and implementations for alignment with agreed architecture and VidiNet best practices
• Deliver customer workshops, knowledge transfer sessions, and training
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to feed customer requirements into the roadmap and validate platform fit
• Contribute to reference architectures, reusable patterns, and continuous improvement of delivery methodologies

• 7+ years of experience in Professional Services, Solutions Engineering, or System Integration, including at least 3 years in a solution or technical architect role
• Proven track record designing and delivering complex IT or media workflow solutions for enterprise customers
• Experience supporting pre-sales: scoping, estimation, and contributing to commercial proposals
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience
• Deep understanding of broadcast and media workflows and media asset management concepts
• Strong knowledge of video/audio codecs, metadata models, formats, and processing pipelines
• Experience designing REST API-based integrations, event-driven architectures, and web services
• Solid understanding of data modelling and SQL / data-driven systems
• Hands-on programming/scripting skills for day-to-day implementation work (JavaScript, Java, Python, C#, or similar)
• Experience with Linux environments, containers (Docker), and Kubernetes
• Strong cloud architecture skills (AWS preferred), including storage, networking, security, and cost considerations
• Ability to define and assess non-functional requirements: scalability, availability, performance, and security
• Cloud architecture certification (e.g. AWS Solutions Architect) nice to have
• OpenSearch / observability stacks nice to have
• GitHub and CI/CD pipelines nice to have
• Infrastructure as code and configuration management (Terraform, Ansible, Chef) nice to have
• Familiarity with architecture modelling approaches (e.g. C4, UML) nice to have
• Strong communication skills, with the confidence to lead technical discussions with customer architects, engineers, and senior stakeholders
• Ability to translate business needs into technical designs, and technical trade-offs into business-relevant terms
• Sound judgement on scope: distinguishing out-of-the-box platform capabilities, configuration, and custom work
• Structured, pragmatic, and comfortable moving between architecture decisions and hands-on implementation
• Collaborative mentoring ability
• Customer-focused mindset with a commitment to high-quality solutions
• Fluent in English and German (written and spoken)
• Willingness to travel occasionally (approximately 10%) for customer workshops and key project milestones

• Work in a dynamic, international environment with high-impact projects
• Shape state-of-the-art media technology solutions for customers worldwide
• Work in a highly skilled, collaborative team environment
• Own the technical direction of complex, large-scale media workflows and integrations
• Grow your career in a delivery-focused, innovation-driven organization