Avid MAM Media Migration Specialist

Job Title: Avid MAM Media Migration Specialist (AWS S3 / GCS) – Remote

Location: Remote (UK / Europe)

Employment Type: Contract or Permanent

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced Avid MAM Media Migration Specialist to support a large-scale media and metadata migration programme for a leading broadcast organisation. The role involves preparing, migrating, and validating media assets and metadata from Avid MAM into modern, cloud-based ingestion and archive platforms.

This is a hands-on migration role, not a broadcast operations or QC-only position.

Key Responsibilities

Source Data Preparation

• Export and prepare media assets and associated metadata from Avid MAM for migration

• Organise and validate source data to ensure accuracy, consistency, and completeness

Metadata Migration

• Extract, enrich, normalise, and validate metadata from Avid MAM systems

• Ensure correct linkage between media assets, assignments, and metadata objects

• Prepare metadata for downstream ingestion workflows

Media Migration

• Execute media migration workflows from AWS S3 archives to cloud processing environments

• Validate transfers, perform integrity checks, and troubleshoot migration issues

Cloud Integration

• Support ingestion workflows to process assets, generate proxies, and archive content into Google Cloud Storage (GCS)

• Collaborate with platform, engineering, and broadcast stakeholders to ensure seamless integration

Mandatory Skills & Experience

• Strong hands-on experience with Avid MAM (Media Asset Management)

• Proven experience in media and metadata migration projects

• Hands-on exposure to AWS S3 and cloud-based migration workflows

• Experience with metadata extraction, validation, and normalisation

• Ability to design and execute scalable and reliable migration workflows

Preferred / Nice to Have

• Background in media & broadcast technology environments

• Experience with Mimir ingestion pipelines

• Familiarity with Google Cloud Storage (GCS)

• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail

• Ability to work effectively in fully remote, cross-functional teams

Eligibility

• Candidates must be based in UK or Europe (Germany / Poland / Sweden / France / Netherlands)

• Must have a valid right to work in the respective country

• Remote role