Position Title

Media Production Systems Architect (T & I) (Telework/Hybrid)

Status of Employment

Permanent

Position Language Requirement

English, French

Language Skills

English (Reading - C - Advanced), English (Speaking - C - Advanced), English (Writing - B - Intermediate), French (Reading - C - Advanced), French (Speaking - C - Advanced), French (Writing - B - Intermediate)

Work at CBC/Radio-Canada

At CBC/Radio-Canada, we create content that informs, entertains and connects Canadians on multiple platforms. Our successes and accomplishments are driven by embodying and upholding values, which include creativity, integrity, inclusiveness and relevance.

Do you think you have the ability and drive to keep up with this exciting, ever-changing industry? Whether it be in front of the camera, on air, online or behind the scenes, you would be joining a team that thrives on making connections and telling stories that are important to Canadians.

Behind the scenes, but ahead of the curve: help us develop the next-generation public service media organization.

Technology & Infrastructure (T&I;) is the backbone and the future-forward arm of CBC/Radio-Canada. Our purpose is to constantly innovate to evolve and maintain the Corporation’s technology and infrastructure. We are the people that make stuff work. We make connections between media content, systems, people and places. We are the space in between.

A place with purpose. CBC/Radio-Canada has always been a highly regarded pioneer of media technology — not just in Canada but around the world. Today, we are transforming ourselves into a modern and agile public service media organization. Technology is the driving force, and we are the team making it happen.





This is a hybrid position with a mix of in-office and remote work. Work arrangements will be discussed with hiring managers per departmental guidelines.

Work arrangements will be discussed with hiring managers per departmental guidelines.

Your Role

As a part of the Architecture and strategic development, production systems architecture team, you will be mandated to design and plan CBC/Radio-Canada future media infrastructure, with a specific eye toward our media production systems. Working in collaboration with the corporation's different stakeholders, you will help translate the needs and requirements into a robust Strategies.

Your judgment, knowledge, experience and analytical skills will help you achieve the following:

- Plan, develop and design CBC/Radio-Canada media production systems (PAM, MAM, television and radio studios), Define solutions for heterogeneous environments that span across functional, technical, and business domains.
- Collaborate with the enterprise architects (Software, Media, and information security) in order to align all aspects of our media infrastructure and the business requirements to prepare roadmaps that will influence our strategic investments.
- Designs and develop innovative solutions, documents technical specifications, with an eye towards simplicity, reliability, manageability, scalability,



extensibility, performance and reuse.
- Play a technology expert consulting and coaching role with the various media lines (TV, radio, Web) and IT staff.
- Conduct specialized studies and technical assessments of the latest media technologies.
- Identify and propose innovative ideas for optimizing our infrastructure in regard to media production and distribution.
- Synthesize and explain to non-experts’ technological innovations to make them understandable and accessible across the Corporation.

You possess

General qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer science, or an IT related degree, P.Eng. qualification is a solid asset.
- Four or more years of media, broadcast technologies architecture or design experience.

Technical skills and experience

- Experience with new and emerging media technologies (DMF, MXL, SMPTE-2110, Generative AI for media production).
- Expertise and knowledge of audio/video production and post-production methods including file formats and related technologies (File wrappers, video & audio codecs, media processing, file-based workflows etc.).
- Expertise and knowledge of audio/video production methods related technologies (Radio and television studios, production switchers, cameras, etc.).
- Hand-on technical working experience with media production platforms (Avid Interplay MAM, Dalet, Suite Adobe, etc.) and its related various media production software (Avid ¸Media Composer, One Cut, Adobe Premiere, etc.).
- Must have functional knowledge of cloud technologies, virtualization, networking, storage.
- Experience with Cloud provider (Azure, AWS

📌 Media Production Systems Architect (Montreal)
🏢 CBC / Radio-Canada
📍 Montreal