# Technical Director

**Company**: The Walt Disney Studios
**Location**: Iver Heath, United Kingdom
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering

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## Description

The Walt Disney Studios is seeking a highly skilled and adaptable Technical Director to support its London-based production unit within a fast-paced Visual Effects environment.

The Technical Director will play a key role in developing and maintaining production pipelines, while also acting as a frontline support resource for artists, coordinators, and producers. The position works closely with the Los Angeles-based Technical Director team, requiring clear communication and effective cross-time-zone collaboration.

**Responsibilities:**

- Design, develop, and maintain scalable production tools, pipelines, and workflows for VFX production.

- Provide day-to-day technical support to production teams, troubleshooting issues across pipeline, tools, and data flow.

- Act as a bridge between technical and non-technical stakeholders, translating requirements into actionable solutions.

- Support and maintain production tracking app using Flow Production Tracking and related tools.

- Assist with large-scale data transfers, including troubleshooting and operational support for platforms such as Signiant and Aspera.

- Document workflows, tools, and issues clearly for cross-site collaboration, including JIRA tickets and internal communications.

- Collaborate with the Los Angeles Technical Director team to ensure continuity of support across time zones.

- Take ownership of a wide range of tasks, from high-level pipeline engineering to hands-on technical assistance as needed.

**Qualifications and Experience:**

- Expert-level proficiency in Python for pipeline and tool development.

- Strong experience building and maintaining VFX production pipelines and workflows.

- Deep familiarity with Flow Production Tracking (Shotgrid).

- Experience with industry-standard review tools such as RV and DaVinci Resolve.

- Strong understanding of production environments, file systems, and asset management.

**Perks:**

- 25 days annual leave

- Private medical insurance & dental care

- Free Park Entry: opportunity to enter any Disney parks with family and friends for free

- Disney Discounts: discounts on designated Disney products, resort F&B, and ticketing

- Excellent parental and guardian leave

- Employee Resource Groups

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- VFX production pipelines
- Flow Production Tracking
- RV
- DaVinci Resolve

### Nice to have
- FileMaker Pro
- Signiant
- Aspera
- web applications

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