Key Responsibilities And Accountabilities

• Work closely with commercial teams to support current contracts, renewals, growth opportunities, and new business pursuits by shaping solution options that are technically credible and commercially relevant.
• Engage with stakeholders across engineering, operations, projects, procurement, and transformation to gather requirements and convert business needs into clear architectural direction and solution proposals.
• Support and lead technical input into RFI and RFP processes, including market engagement, requirements definition, response structure, vendor evaluation, solution comparison, and clarification management.
• Help define solutions for both internal operational workflows and client-facing services, ensuring alignment with IMG’s wider business model and service proposition.
• Produce high-quality architectural artefacts, technical narratives, option papers, blueprints, scope definitions, and supporting documentation for business cases, partner conversations, and formal procurement activity.
• Evaluate current and emerging technologies, suppliers, and delivery models to determine fitness for purpose, integration potential, risk, supportability, and total cost of ownership.
• Work with technical and operational teams to ensure proposed solutions are deliverable, supportable, secure, and aligned to IMG’s standards, strategic direction, and future-state operating model.
• Support vendor and partner engagement, including discovery sessions, technical workshops, demonstrations, proof of concepts, and architectural challenge where needed.
• Act as a bridge between non-technical and technical stakeholders, ensuring solution intent, assumptions, trade-offs, costs, risks, and dependencies are clearly communicated and understood.
• Collaborate with project and engineering teams to support transition from concept to implementation, including design authority, documentation, testing considerations, migration planning, and operational readiness.
• Ensure opportunities are assessed with a joined-up view across commercial, technical, procurement, and transformation priorities so that IMG avoids fragmented technology decisions and converges around the right strategic outcomes.
• Contribute to the evolution of IMG Studios’ future technology stack across on-premise, cloud, and hybrid environments, particularly in software-native and API-first architectures.

Knowledge And Experience

Mandatory

• Proven experience as a Solutions Architect or in a similar architecture, consulting, or technical presales role within media, broadcast, technology, or complex enterprise environments.
• Strong experience translating business requirements into scalable, supportable technical solutions across multiple stakeholder groups.
• Experience working closely with both commercial and technical teams on customer opportunities, solution shaping, and procurement-related activity.
• Experience responding to or supporting RFPs, RFIs, bids, tenders, solution proposals, or structured vendor selection exercises.
• Strong understanding of architecture across cloud, on-premise, and hybrid environments.
• Strong understanding of integration patterns, APIs, workflow orchestration, identity, security, and operational support considerations in complex platforms.
• Ability to assess technology choices in terms of business value, architectural fit, operational readiness, and commercial implications.
• Excellent written communication skills, including the ability to produce clear technical documentation and executive-ready content.
• Excellent verbal communication and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to influence across senior leadership, vendors, engineering teams, and commercial stakeholders.
• Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple opportunities, workstreams, and deadlines simultaneously.

Desirable

• Experience in live production, post production, media asset management, playout, transmission, or broadcast infrastructure environments.
• Experience with software-native, cloud-native, and API-first media platforms.
• Familiarity with procurement processes, commercial modelling, licensing approaches, and vendor management.
• Experience supporting proof of concepts, market scans, technology evaluations, and transformation programmes.
• Knowledge of operational environments with high availability, security, and compliance requirements.

Personal Attributes

• Commercially aware, pragmatic, and outcome-focused.
• Strong collaborator who is comfortable working across business, operational, engineering, and leadership teams.
• Curious and strategic, with the confidence to challenge constructively where better approaches exist.
• Comfortable operating with ambiguity while bringing structure, clarity, and momentum.
• Able to balance innovation with realism, and future-state ambition with current operational needs.

Core Competencies

In addition, success at IMG is driven by four core competencies that apply to all employees:

• Business Acumen – Understanding financial drivers, interpreting business data, aligning decisions to strategic outcomes
• Operational Excellence – Driving efficiency, governance, and continuous improvement in delivery & operations
• Innovation Mindset – Cultivating curiosity, experimentation, and forward-looking capability development
• Leadership & Collaboration – Inspiring others, building trust, and enabling collaboration across teams

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