Studio: BlueBolt
Job Opening: Head of Pipeline
Location: London, England, United Kingdom
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Work with CTO, Department Heads and Leads to capture studio requirements and determine Pipeline objectives
- Breakdown objectives into manageable Pipeline projects
- Provide strong leadership to the Pipeline team to deliver their projects, and foster close communication during development with stakeholders across the company.
- Manage and oversee the Pipeline team’s day-to-day work and development schedule, estimate the delivery of projects and ensure they are met on time
- Run own projects and write clear & concise documentation
- Effectively balance the team’s fire-fighting agility with tools development and R&D
- Run sprint reviews, planning and retrospective meetings, and participate in code reviews
- Help team break down requirements into user stories and tasks
- Present tools development to department heads and production team
- Promote high standards when it comes to code quality and enforce and encourage best practices
- Drive innovation in the team, staying abreast of technical developments and maintaining relationships with external organisations to grow & strengthen BlueBolt’s pipeline.
- Foster development of team members, using a mix of 1:1 meetings, personal reviews and training.
Qualifications & Skills:
- Proven performance managing a Pipeline team using Agile Scrum and a solid track record of pipeline development experience in VFX
- Experience designing and implementing 2D & 3D pipelines from scratch or progressing existing pipelines using standard industry packages
- Enjoys writing clean, efficient, well-documented Python code
- Strong understanding of asset management, production workflows and colour pipeline
- Excellent on-the-spot technical problem-solving skills as well as foresight to potential issues
- Approachable with strong communication skills, both written and in person.
- Degree in Computer Science or a related discipline
- Experience working in a SCRUM based development environment
- Active member of the open source community.
