Senior Pipeline TD

• Work From Home or in Studio.

• Must be willing to relocate to British Columbia.

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ICON Creative Studio is Canada’s largest independently owned animation entertainment company located in the historic Gastown district of Vancouver, BC Canada with design, storyboarding, modeling, rigging, animation, technical finaling, lighting, visual effects, and compositing artists alongside creative and management teams.

Known for our quality, efficiency, and timely deliveries, ICON has partnered alongside distributors, broadcasters, and streaming platforms around the world to help create, realize and produce noteworthy content.

ICON operates from a holistic philosophy that leverages individual skill sets to maximize production efficiency on the floor while maintaining an optimal balance of creativity and quality on-screen.-

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During this challenging time, we have successfully transitioned to a virtual studio. The health of our employees is always our priority. We will see you soon!

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Why work at ICON?

At ICON we constantly invest in raising the bar of our productions and fostering our people. If you are a passionate artist capable of sharing success with others, we’d like to hear from you!

• Join the fastest growing CG Animation studio in Vancouver
• Work in a safe environment. The company has successfully transitioned into a virtual studio via a high-speed Teradici connection
• Work on top feature episodic CG franchises for leading streaming platforms (Netflix, Disney+, Apple TV+, Amazon, etc.)
• Work with a diverse group of artists from all over the world who have come to BC to join our expanding studio
• Use all of the latest tools and Softwares
• We uphold a premium standard of quality across all of our production
• We hire for the long term and give artists the opportunity to grow, get promoted and take on as much responsibility as they can manage
• We offer flexibility and autonomy
• We facilitate requests and make changes in a timely manner
• We support PR applications
• We offer a generous benefits package for all employees

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Senior Pipeline Technical Director

The purpose of the Pipeline department is to nurture an environment for the effective and efficient production of media through research, innovation and the application of technology.

A Senior Pipeline TD requires a comprehensive understanding of how data flows through the studio from beginning to end. Often with intimate knowledge of the operations in multiple departments or areas of expertise. With this knowledge you will be expected to recognize when the pipeline is not running smoothly and make necessary adjustments.

In this position, you will be liaising with Senior Artists, Supervisors, Production staff and the IT department to plan for the future and develop integral improvements for the studio.

This position will report to the Pipeline Supervisor (Head of Department).

Responsibilities:

• Provide courteous and professional technical support
• Mentor and advise less experienced team members
• Evaluate issues and requests generated by production (tickets), implementing technical solutions as needed
• Notify supervisor of any anticipated disruptions to production schedules
• Make recommendations for systemic workflow modifications/adjustments
• Provide regular updates on current development efforts and projects
• Maintain knowledge of the workflows and processes of the studio Pipeline
• Attend regular production and departmental meetings
• Participate in code reviews and training sessions
• Maintain documentation for new and modified tools/systems
• Coordinate with IT to maintain and deploy 3rd-party plugins/tools
• Be alert to emerging and new technologies. Provide insight for potential improvements that could benefit
• Write effective, readable and maintainable code
• Contribute to design documents and proposals for R&D projects
• Perform code maintenance and refactoring as needed
• Contribute to departmental coding standards
• Contribute to departmental development and deployment practices
• Abide by the ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct

Required Skills:

• Willingness to understand and contemplate complex technical
• Take a proactive approach to investigation and troubleshooting issues
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Strong organizational skills
• Excellent time management and ability to work independently
• Use of Design Patterns and SOLID programming principles
• Fluency with the Python programming language
• Thorough understanding of visual effects and/or animation pipelines
• Proven experience writing pipeline tools and modifying workflows

Desirable Skills

• A degree in Computer Science, Computer Graphics or related field
• Knowledge of database management and web technologies
• Experience in Pipeline, System Administration or Software Development
• Familiarity with standard software development practices
• Experience of UI and UX design using Qt libraries
• Prior experience using:
  • Digital Content Creation (DCC) Applications:
    • Maya / Zbrush / Nuke / Houdini / MARI / Premiere / Photoshop
• MEL / PyMEL / Maya Python API (1 & 2) / Maya C++ API
• Version/Source control (Git / BitBucket / GitLab)
• Issue Tracking (YouTrack)
• Production Tracking (Shotgun)
• Farm schedulers (Deadline)
• Renderers (Arnold)
• Editing (Adobe Premiere)
• Universal Scene Description / Alembic
• Additional programming languages (C++ / Java)

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ICON Creative Studio is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status.

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  Ask us about our generous benefits program.