Responsibilities: “What would you say you do here?”

• Support production critical software, infrastructure and workflows. For example, services-based infrastructure, production management software, pipeline software, DCCs; fur, cloth, particle effects, animation, and rendering workflows.

• Gain and demonstrate a working knowledge of studio coding standards, policies, and best practices. Use these skills to engineer robust and strategic software solutions.

• Build validation tests to ensure software quality.

• Stay abreast of existing and new third party technology to inform technical decision-making.

• Triage artist and production issues.

• Extend and improve the existing pipeline through support and development of existing software and procedures

• Contribute to novel software integrations.

• Gain a working knowledge of proprietary and/or industry-standard DCCs (e.g. Premo, Moonray, Maya, Houdini, Unreal, Nuke)

• Gain a working knowledge of the artist's workflow, toolsets and processes.

• Propose, develop, communicate and implement change management plans.

• Maintain a constructive attitude when faced with unexpected challenges.

• Develop and support custom solutions for feature animation.

• Complete assigned tasks on time or proactively communicate obstacles and timeline changes.

• Continually evaluate the pipeline and find new ways to streamline production processes.

• Communicate with artists to identify production facing problems.

• Clearly and concisely document software and approaches to solving recurring problems.

• Deconstruct production issues/requests and direct component tasks to appropriate departments.

• Constructively give and take in feedback and work towards addressing it.

• Collaborate with TDs and department leadership when resolving production issues.

• Act as a production/department representative when collaborating with cross disciplinary teams.

• Assist in training and mentoring of new Technical Directors.

• Be a model representative of the TD department.