Technology Lead - Neuilly-sur-Seine, France - CISAC

Description

With 227 member sociees in 118 countries, CISAC represents more than 4 million creators from all geographic areas and all arsc repertoires; music, audiovisual, drama, literature and visual arts.

CISAC is presided over by
Swedish songwriter, musician, singer, guitarist, producer and a member of the Swedish musical group

ABBA Björn Ulvaeus and our four Vice Presidents are: South African singer, songwriter, actress, entrepreneur, humanitarian and teacher Yvonne Chaka Chaka, Mexican composer and director Arturo Márquez, Chinese director, writer and producer Jia Zhang-ke, and Internaonal Neo-Expressionist visual arst Miquel Barceló.

CISAC protects the rights and promotes the interests of creators worldwide.

We enable collecve management organisaons to seamlessly represent creators across the globe and ensure that royales flow to authors for the use of their works anywhere in the world.

Founded in 1926, CISAC is a non-governmental, not-for-profit organisaon with headquarters in France and regional offices in Africa, South America (Chile), Asia-Pacific (China) and Europe (Hungary).

The Tech Lead will be responsible for the technical direction of CIS-Net (network of creators' works), ensuring that the team are productive and delivering high quality software. You will work with CISAC and Societies to come up with technical designs for new features, and mentor your team members in best practices for software development.

Responsible for the delivery of a stable CIS-Net experience to societies, providing a stable platform whilst ensuring the technology remains relevant by development, improvements/enhancements, new features etc.

Responsible for overseeing the work of the software developers and other technical staff.

Act as a liaison between development teams, societies and CISAC Secretariat, providing regular updates on current status and helping to ensure that everyone is working toward the same goals.

Manage the day-to-day activities of the development, technical team. Assigning tasks, providing feedback, and ensuring that the team are meeting deadlines.


Technical Lead Job Duties

• Maintain CIS-Net on a daily basis to ensure full availability to CISAC members
• Coordinate activities with third party service providers
• Address any shortfall in CIS-Net operations
• Developing and maintaining relationships with Societies, Third parties and other stakeholders
• Offer recommendations for improvement
• Ensuring high quality standards in all projects by establishing clear goals and expectations for team members
• Communicate with CISAC members and other Stakeholders to clarify requirements and solve technical problems
• Support the evaluation new technologies and recommending which ones CISAC should adopt
• Mentoring and guiding societies teams to help them develop their Knowledge of CIS-Net & technical skills
• Serve as the technical expert and primary point of contact for a team of developers and societies, providing leadership and mentorship
• Work with the CISAC Secretariat, societies and other stakeholders to define and scope technical projects
• Optimise existing systems and architecture for performance and scalability
• Handle shortterm and midterm projects concurrently and adjust onthefly as priorities change
• Understand the business domain and be able to make tradeoffs between competing demands
• Be datadriven in your decision making and use metrics to back up assumptions
• Communicate effectively with both technical and nontechnical staff at all levels of the organisation
• Take on additional responsibilities as needed to help the CISAC team meet deadlines
• Proactively identify risks and roadblocks and work with the team to find creative solutions

Job Requirements

Communication:

The ability to convey your ideas clearly and encourage others to support your ideas & help your team collaborate and solve problems.

Leadership:
Previous experience of leading and developing a technology team


Problem-solving: Experience of resolving technical issues and finding solutions to problems, ability to troubleshoot, solve technical issues and find alternative solutions to improve CISAC's technology is essential.

The ability to analyse a situation and make a decision based on the information you have, support the decision making process for the technology CISAC uses, the software developers use or the hardware the company purchases.

Project management:
Responsible for overseeing the development of new products or services.

This will require strong project management skills, which involve planning, organising and directing a team to complete a task, creating a timeline for the project and ensuring that the team meets deadlines.

Security:
Experience of developing and implementing security measures that protect CISAC'S & Societies data and assets. The ability to identify potential threats and recommend solutions to mitigate them.


Required Skills and Qualifications
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