VP, Cloud Channels Engineering at Danny Brooks Technologies

Danny Brooks Technologies, Nigeria’s largest Cloud TV Streaming Company. We at Danny Brooks Technologies are dedicated to revolutionising the way the world watches TV. We are a pan-atlantic award-winning OTT provider of next-generation TV solutions to some of the largest players in the media industry.

We are a leading full service digital marketing agency based in Magodo axis of Lagos Nigeria. Our ability to connect today’s three core methodologies – technology, creativity and strategy – at the apex is what makes us the right digital marketing agency to help you “Dominate the Digital Age”.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: VP, Cloud Channels Engineering

Location: Lagos

Job Description

We are looking for exceptional tech-savviness in globally disruptive apps development for EVERY internet enabled screen. In our organization, the VP role is not a project management/delivery role, it is not an HR management role. It is a role that requires deep technical competence that only technical stars can have.
If you used to be the best software developer on your team, and when you got promoted, you discovered the joy of building high-performing teams via means of continuous process improvement and hands-on technical coaching.
Then, our environment enables you to be a VP level manager without having to trade-in your love for technology with project plans and politics.
Our workforce is composed of the top 1% of a cross-racial developers from all around the globe.
That annoying feeling that everyone is holding you back by moving too slow will be gone in no time. Working with super-smart high pace developers enables you to build a dream-team with exceptional performance.
Apply now to make a career move and be part of the #futureoftv revolution.

Key Responsibilities

Build and lead an engineering group that is part of our central engineering function
Establish high-quality world-class standards and technical operations to deliver as part of our broad portfolio of B2B SaaS products
Provide coaching to your managers and team members – help them grow
Engage and align top talent through strong recruitment, mentoring, hands-on architectural leadership and career management

Candidate Requirements

Master’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent ( Ph.D. preferred)
Excellent technical expertise in software development, software architecture, quality assurance, cloud infrastructure and automated deployments using CI/CD tools
Minimum of 20 years hands-on software development and architecture experience
Minimum of 13 years in a software engineering leadership position such as CTO or Head of Development
Leading at least 10 multidisciplinary software teams, with an overall head-count of more than 50 engineers, structured such that you were responsible for goal setting, performance measurement, and hiring/ firing decisions (direct reporting lines – a MUST)
Experience in building high-performing teams and scalable best-practices in an engineering organization
Setting aggressive goals for your teams using SMART principles and usage of metrics as a key driver in your decision-making processes
A technically dominant and opinionated lead aspiring for continuous improvement across his organization
An advanced level of spoken and written English
Must be a repository of knowledge in apps development for the following platforms:
- Vizio Cast TV,
- Samsung Smart Hub,
- Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Samsung Tizen/Orsay, LG WebOS,
- Chromecast, Google Nest, Oculus Go, Xbox,
- PlayStation 3 and 4, WII U,
- Sony Smart TV,
- Ouya, Nvidia Shield,
- Toshiba Smart TV
Additionally, our choice candidate must be proficient in the following apps architechure scope:
- Pin based Authentication and device authentication
- User based login with password
- Customise video player (Trick play, auto play and play next functionality like Netflix)
- Resume facility within the channel for user easy access
- Integrate Ads framework (Google ad manager and spotx framework)
You Will Be Working With Clients Such Asа Aljazeerah,а Emmanuel TV, Super Sports, Citi, Ogilvy, and many others