Senior Architect Decoder UI Development job at MultiChoice Uganda

About the Organization

We entertain, inform and empower the communities that inspire and build us in return

Job Description

The MultiChoice Group is a multinational media and entertainment group headquartered in South Africa, Dubai and the Netherlands with principal operations in pay television, video entertainment, advertising and content security. Brands within the Group include DStv, GOtv, SuperSport, M-Net, DStv Media Sales, Showmax and European-based content security leader Irdeto. We’re proud to say we serve 20 million subscribers across 52 African markets, with a successful history of identifying and adapting to industry trends, allowing us to continuously deliver the best in entertainment. Key areas of operations are:

Storytelling ranging from content creation, production and aggregation including the best global general entertainment, sport and eminent African content library, delivered to customers
Pay Television: direct-to-home satellite and digital terrestrial television services;
SVOD: subscription video on demand services across multiple online platforms with a focus on library and local content in developing markets, and
Advertising: providing dynamic media solutions; handling commercial airtime, on-air sponsorships, content integration, and online sales across a variety of 130+ channel brands on linear TV, VOD, social media, and digital platforms.
The group’s strength lies in its focus on local language and culture, its entrepreneurial spirit and the quality of its workforce. Multichoice Group has a successful history of identifying trends early, adapting them for the markets in which it operates and leveraging them to maximum advantage. The group generates revenues primarily through subscription model, with a growing contribution from advertising revenue. Its key objectives are to:
Expand Pay TV, SVOD subscriber base and Advertising sales
Focus on investment and technology
Maintain a local approach
Provide quality service
Attract innovative and motivated employees

Duties and Responsibilities

Operational Delivery:

Participates in pre-product discussions with stakeholders
Suggests product requirements for existing technologies
Contributes to product proposals
Writes and maintains technical requirements specifications (functional, non-functional)
Reviews requirements specifications
Is responsible for identifying & resolving technical risks
Advises stakeholders on what MCA systems can do and also impact on wider scope of E2E system
Monitors the evolution of standards that are relevant to the business / projects
Assists Project & Product management in defining phases
Active role in Change Request / Enhancement requests process for technical impact assessments
Breaks down product use cases into technical system / component use cases
Leads the core team for systems / components based on existing products to meet the customer needs
Defines and reviews system architecture & component specification documents
Defines and reviews interface documents
Defines and reviews the interfaces with third party suppliers
Performs analysis of requirements including gap analysis
Reviews list of materials (BOM) impacted by design
Provides guidance on requirements and system architecture to Developers, QC, Systems Integration & Systems Engineers
Ensures the delivered solution meets the business technical requirements for moderately complex systems
Responsible for identifying & resolving technical issues
Reviews lower-level component design
Provides input to the analysis of in-field issues & defects
Breaks down high level use cases into component level use cases, identifying modules impacted
Seeks clarification from system & solution architects as well as product team
Contributes to requirements reviews

Breaks down requirements into use cases for component backlogs
Works with product team (BAs) to understand functional & user requirements / behavior
Responsible for the component design including some of the following:
Design patterns and framework to use
Implementation technologies
Third-party or Open source components
Internal modules design & interactions
Collaborates on Interface Definitions / APIs with other component providers
Considers trade-off between design sophistication and time-to market when making architectural decisions
Tracks design decisions that result in technical debt
Owns the evolution of the component design / architecture
Ensures implementation respects rules of agreed framework
Applies best practices of software design
Involved in implementing the design, often writing framework code / foundation architecture
Offers guidance to developers, QA & Integration teams
Provides training on component if needed
Participates in ongoing Change Request Processes

Qualification, Experiences and Competencies

B.Sc (Electronic and/or Computer Engineering) or similar qualification.
Postgraduate or PhD in the fields of Software or Hardware Engineering (optional).
Relevant industry wide patents preferred.
TOGAF certification preferable.

Experience

Typically, 12+ years of appropriate experience in embedded software design/development, preferably STB.
Excellent hands-on experience with Architecting and Designing for Embedded Devices.
Strong knowledge of embedded software development, integration, debugging/troubleshooting, testing, configuration, support and maintenance processes with multiple vendor components.
Strong knowledge of core Java language.
Strong knowledge of Web technologies (e.g. WS, RESTful, etc.) and scripting languages (e.g. HTML, Javascript, CSS etc.)
Strong knowledge networking technologies, protocols such as - HTTP, WS, FTP, UDP, UPnP, RTSP, RTP.

Strong knowledge of embedded hardware systems, real-time & Linux operating systems.
Strong knowledge of Database Design and Management tools (SQLite, etc.).
Strong experience in Systems Design Methodologies (UML and other Modelling Techniques).
Experience in Mentoring and Leading Technical Design Teams and good with Whitepapers and Technical presentations
Exposure to various SDLC methodologies like Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid, DevOps etc.
Nice to have knowledge of embedded C/C++ languages.
Experience with Architectural design tools like Enterprise Architect, IBM Rational or similar.
Experience with SDLC Tools, e.g. IBM Jazz, Jira, HP Quality Centre
Nice to have of Hardware Design and Components for STB..