Assistant Vice President, Media & Metadata Integration

WHY JOIN US?

• We practice a vibrant & energetic office culture.

• We provide opportunities for career advancement within the company.

• Good performance is always rewarded accordingly.

“It's our people that make Astro Malaysia’s leading entertainment company. We are an inclusive employer, to enable everyone at Astro to be their best. We embrace differences – we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products/services and our community. We also understand and appreciate that diversity is a driver of creativity and innovation, which will make our business more competitive, compelling and profitable.”

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

• Product owner and scrum master of Astro Metadata System (AMS), responsible for managing the lifecycle of metadata platform and its portfolio. Ensures that all business requirements for downstream payTV / OTT platform are delivered in accordance to business timelines with the most cost effective and compliance manner.

• Subject matter expert of AMS (Astro Metadata System) that manages all rich metadata, images, and media for presentation and delivery to all downstream Astro products.

• Plan and provided alignment the to SCRUM team to meet AMS integrations and deliverables with the downstream products.

• Coordinates and translate product vision to the product roadmap and mapped it to Product, Sprint, and Release backlog.

• Lead 3rd party software development team to design and develop custom features to meet operational needs.

• Advocated for developing critical features closely in every sprint in order to identify and resolve product technical issues.

• Backlogs grooming and prioritization, documenting acceptance criteria and manages the final deliverables on behalf of the operational team and platform.

• Organises and manages pre-production and post-production platform deployments and supports.

• Coordinate with 3rd party system integration team to address dependencies and align with the deliverable timelines.

• Identify and track project performance, specifically to analyze the successful completion of short and long-term goals.

• Track bugs, manage development tasks, and capture user requirements using JIRA and Confluence Pages.

• Provides L2/L3 support for any issues related to metadata and VOD platform

• Provides coaching and training to content solution engineers

REQUIREMENTS:

WHO YOU ARE:

• 8-10 years of working experience with a Bachelor’s degree in information Science / Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent

• 6-7 years of experience in Cloud Application, ideally AWS/Azure/GCP

• Thorough knowledge of systems, cloud, infrastructure, middleware, microservices, software development, network and especially in 24x7 operations environment

• Experience in full stack/backend environment, preferably leading a team of software engineers in medium sized development.

• Experience in agile / scrum software development projects and project management

• Experience in stakeholders' management both internal and externals.

• Working knowledge of business systems, content metadata, media orchestration, AI or any media related platform will be an added advantage