Director of Entertainment Technology

Term : Full Time

Location: NY 

Director of Entertainment Technology

 A top 4 Internet/Media company based in New York City is looking for a Director of Entertainment Technology.  The Director of Entertainment Technology reports directly to the Vice President and Chief Technical Officer of Entertainment. Entertainment is the largest business unit by revenue in MediaGlow Business Unit. This position is responsible for some of the most popular and beloved products on the web.

This position is based in New York City and she/he will manage several teams based in India, New York City, and Dulles Virginia

 The ideal candidate will have prior experience building customer facing web applications for online media or e-commerce businesses. This includes technical and business insight needed to build scalable web application from the ground up. Responsibilities include

        ·        Identify and use common internet protocols

·        Establish best practices and basic design principles for data management

·        Lead teams to meet Web Page performance guidelines

·        Establish standards and best practices for software development

·        Establish and meet quality standards for product implementation and availability

·        Work with product teams to estimate level of effort and identify dependencies

·        Work with Executive Management to establish clear technical direction

·        Establish and meet audience reach goals through SEO

·        Familiar with common web development software development practices including lean, agile, or TOC.

·         Familiarity and previous experience with the following technology is desired

• Linux file systems, methods of authentication and access, shell scripting
• HTTP, cookies, headers, caching, keep-alives
• Use of load balencers
• Building web servers to handle large volumes of short lived HTTP requests
• Open source data management tools like Kettle, Talend, or Mule
• MySQL Innodb memory usage and locking
• The programming language Java and related JDK
• Application servers like Tomcat, Resin, or Jetty
• JavaScript libraries and JavaScript methods available in the browser

Basic understanding of Cascading Style Sheets