Coders Connect

Senior Software Engineer, Media Migration Programme

Coders Connect

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $NaN per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSCloudPython

About the role

  • Avid MAM and AXF metadata engineering.
  • Analyze and process Avid AXF exports for assignments, stories, clips, and media objects.
  • Extract, validate, and troubleshoot metadata using Python-based tooling.
  • Understand and work with Avid project hierarchies, relationships, and legacy metadata structures.
  • Retrieve and validate media object locations via archive APIs.
  • Identify and resolve corrupted exports, inconsistencies, and legacy formatting issues.
  • Metadata transformation and MAM ingest.
  • Design and implement transformation workflows to convert Avid metadata into flat, normalized JSON.
  • Map Avid fields to target MAM schemas and ingest specifications.
  • Generate and validate MAM compliant sidecar JSON files.
  • Support end to end ingest testing and verify correct asset representation and proxy generation.
  • Media validation and migration readiness.
  • Validate media completeness across Avid, archive systems, and object storage.
  • Perform checksum verification, object existence checks, and readiness validation.
  • Support preparation of migration manifests for bulk transfer workflows.
  • Identify and resolve mismatches between metadata and physical media.
  • Python workflow engineering.
  • Enhance Python workflows used for metadata extraction, transformation, and orchestration.
  • Implement robust error handling, detailed logging, and recoverable execution paths.
  • Optimize pipelines for high volume archival workloads.
  • Collaborate closely with technical stakeholders to validate logic and improve tooling.
  • Ingest verification and documentation.
  • Verify successful migration and ingest into the new MAM and cloud storage.
  • Confirm metadata accuracy, media presence, and correct asset linkage.
  • Produce detailed documentation, workflow diagrams, and operational runbooks.
  • Contribute to testing cycles, validation reviews, and regular status reporting.

Requirements

  • Strong hands on experience with Avid MAM, this is mandatory.
  • Deep understanding of Avid metadata structures, AXF packaging, and assignment story relationships.
  • Experience working with archive systems and media object validation.
  • Strong Python engineering skills for metadata processing and workflow automation.
  • Experience working with JSON based schemas and transformation logic.
  • Solid understanding of object storage workflows, including AWS S3 and Google Cloud Storage.
  • Ability to diagnose complex data and metadata issues across multiple systems.
Benefits
  • This is a rare opportunity to join a long-running, well-scoped media transformation program where avid expertise and engineering depth are genuinely critical.
  • You will be working on complex, meaningful systems that underpin modern news and media operations, with a competitive market rate and long term contract stability.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
Pythonmetadata engineeringmetadata transformationworkflow automationJSONchecksum verificationerror handlingdata validationpipeline optimizationMAM ingest
Soft skills
collaborationtroubleshootingdocumentationanalytical skillsattention to detail