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.