Head of Data Resources

Description

Responsible To: Director of Technology
Responsible For: Data Operations

Overview:
The Head of Data Resources is responsible for ensuring the efficient utilisation of MPC's technology resources by defining MPC's data policy and overseeing the allocation of render resources.
The role’s main areas of focus are capacity planning and management of production Data Storage and CG Render processing. Therefore, it is expected that the Head of Data Resources has a progressive and proactive approach to building relationships with key contacts, can identify improvements to processes and is capable of driving the on-going program of change required to deliver them.

Key Responsibilities:
• Defining policies for the allocation of storage tiers to data types and production tasks
• Defining the requirements for automation of storage policy enforcement
• Defining data retention policies for each data type/discipline on each storage tier and automation of these policies
• Identifying inefficient practices and offering improvements to our data and rendering workflows
• Directing most efficient allocation of render resources with the Outsourcing and Resource Manager to predict how we are going to push scheduled and prospective bid work through the facilities world-wide.
• Forecasting utilisation for both storage and render resources
• Advise Bidding and Production staff on potential conflicts and opportunities in the work schedule
• Advise and Monitor Operational Staff to ensure compliance with MPC’s storage and render policies
• Continuously Liaise with RnD, Production Pipeline and Systems/Engineering
• Management of the Data Operations Department
Skills and Experience-

Technical awareness/knowledge: NFS Storage, Networking (i.e. capacity planning/knowledge of LAN and WAN capabilities/transfer speeds), Backup and Archival of VFX Projects, Renderfarms, Tier Storage Concepts and Computer Graphics Rendering.