Junior Pipeline Td

2 days ago

Vancouver, Canada ICON Creative Studio Full time

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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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Work in studio or remotely (anywhere in British Columbia).

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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 set up the ability to work from home via a high-speed Teradici connection.
- Work on top feature episodic CG franchises for leading streaming platforms (Netflix, Disney+, Apple TV+, Amazon, Peacock, Paramount+ 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
- Direct Deposit
- We offer a generous benefits package for all employees

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**Junior Pipeline Technical Director**

A Junior Pipeline TD is an entry-level position in the Pipeline department. Primary responsibility is to provide helpdesk ticket support, diagnose reported problems, and verifying actionable issues. Depending on familiarity and confidence with the material, responsibilities will include maintenance and bug-fixing for proprietary systems, tools, and services used in production.

The applicant may be expected to demonstrate their skills through a programming test or exercise.

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

**Responsibilities**:

- Provide courteous and professional technical support
- Evaluate issues and requests generated by production (tickets)
- Notify supervisor of any anticipated disruptions to production schedules
- Provide regular updates on current efforts and projects
- Maintain knowledge of workflows and processes in use at the studio
- Attend regular production and departmental meetings
- Participate in code reviews and training sessions
- Maintain documentation for modified tools and systems
- Perform code maintenance and refactoring
- Write effective, readable and maintainable code
- Stay informed about new technologies and techniques
- Follow departmental coding standards
- Follow departmental development and deployment practices
- Abide by the ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct

**Required Skills**:

- Willingness to understand and contemplate complex technical problems
- Take a proactive approach to investigation and troubleshooting issues
- Strong written and oral communication
- Strong organizational skills
- Good time management
- Basic knowledge of the Python programming language
- Basic understanding of visual effects and/or animation pipelines

Desirable Skills
- A degree in Computer Science, Computer Graphics or related field
- Knowledge of Object-Oriented principles and Design Patterns
- Experience in Pipeline, System Administration or Software Development
- Familiarity with standard software development practices
- Experience of UI and UX design using Qt libraries
- Experience with writing or maintaining REST-ful APIs
- 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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