TV & Media E2E Solution Architect - Ericsson - Plano, TX

Ericsson and TV & Media

Ericsson’s mission is to enable the future evolution of TV by creating harmonized solutions that give content owners, TV service providers, and network operators the agility to innovate, manage and monetize a new generation of rich TV experiences for the mass market. We do this by uniquely combining an award-winning open portfolio of products and solutions that span the TV value chain, complemented by world-class consulting, systems integration and managed services, with extensive consumer insight and a visionary mindset that unites the worlds of video and IP.

In Ericsson’s vision of the Networked Society we predict there will be 26 billion connected devices by 2020 and, of these, more than 15 billion will be video enabled. This connectivity will be matched by cloud services that bring ‘anything to everything’. It will transform the expectation of consumers to value ownership and storage of assets as critical. They will expect, and become reliant on, their devices being connected to high-speed and universal broadband access all of the time.

As devices become increasingly connected, so do the consumers that use them. This creates enormous opportunities for the TV and Media industry. We are in the greatest period of change and evolution since analog TV broadcasts started over seventy years ago. The opportunities are great, but so are the challenges to the existing value chain and the players within. Vision, innovation and focusing on the consumer are the winning formula for the future.

Ericsson’s Media Vision 2020 is our view of the future, created to paint a picture of how the TV and media landscape will evolve. It is underpinned by our unique position that spans the entire media value chain, across the convergence of media and telecoms backed by our deep insight into consumer trends. Through combining our understanding of the market with quantifiable research we have set out to help our industry recognize what it needs to prepare for the journey ahead.

The strategies for success employed during the past decade will not deliver success in the new era of TV. TV is a new game and it’s time to play!

Job Description

End-to-End Solution Architect

Ericson is looking for an end-to-end Solution Architect in the TV and Media domain. The position requires strong understanding of TV and Media business drivers and trends, combined with knowledge of video delivery architectures and technologies. The candidate will participate in customer engagements from lead generation to contract fulfillment, ensuring that projects are fulfilled with quality, on time and within budget. These engagements will often be transformative in nature requiring the candidate to be perceived by our clients as trustworthy and highly credible. The candidate must be willing to travel internationally and extensively.

Responsibilities and tasks:
Gather customer requirements and translate them into detailed and commercially viable end-to-end technical video solutions; analyze, design & develop solutions for customers, working closely with our Business Development teams

Develop technical proposals and present them to customers

Select or propose Ericsson and/or third-party suppliers/products for customer solutions

Participate in the project delivery team and provide specialist domain knowledge

Support the delivery of customized solutions and products, covering several domains and layers in the end-to-end IP Video (IPTV, online, multiscreen) solution

Drive changes in processes within the customer organization to realize value from proposed solutions

Follow up, post-delivery, with the customer to stay informed about the evolution of the solution

Lead/mentor less-experienced colleagues

Drive competence building, knowledge transfer and information sharing internally and with customers

Stay abreast of new technology/technical areas

Identify add-on sales opportunities and up sell

Share project learnings and contribute to Thought Leadership

Position Qualifications

Core Competences:
Ability to take on a leadership role in a team environment.

Excellent communication skills

Broad technical acumen

Problem solving ability and creative thinking

Consultative selling ability

Ability to work under stressful situations, meet tight deadlines and deliver services with high quality

Experience :
10+ years previous experience working in in the IP Video and Networking space

BS or MS in Computer Science, or Computer Engineering or acceptable combination of equivalent post-secondary education and experience

Past experience working IPTV and CATV Operators in a direct customer-facing role with related pre-sales responsibilities is ideal

Past experience working with IP video solutions (IPTV, Online TV, Multiscreen TV), IP Video Middleware (Mediaroom, Online Video Platforms), Encoding, Packaging and DRM standards and protocols, IP video distribution across fixed & mobile networks

Knowledge of Ericsson products or telecom experience in an Operator (Carrier) environment is desired

Expert in three or more of the following IP video and networking functional skills:

IPTV, Online TV, Multiscreen TV, MobileTV experience

Content production, acquisition, management, processing, delivery & distribution

Live, VOD, nPVR, time-shift TV

Content Delivery Networks (CDN)

Ericsson TV products

Public/private Clouds

Virtualization: VMware

Alcatel, Cisco and Juniper network hardware

In-home networking for video: DLNA, Samba, home gateways

End-user devices for multimedia applications

Optimization of video and network for best QOE, performance and scale

Business Transformation and Technology Evolution relevant to IP Video domain

Location : Flexible location, the position can be based in any Regional Offices Globally (eg: USA, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Spain, France, Germany , UK, Kuwait, India, Australia e.t.c )

Ericsson provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, parental status, national origin, ethnic background, age, disability, political opinion, social status, veteran status, union membership or genetics.

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