Senior VFX / Post-Production Pipeline Technical Director
UK Visa Sponsorship Analytics
Analytics are greyed out due to low classification confidence (52.0%).
Occupation Type
Graphic and multimedia designers
Occupation Code Skill LevelHigher Skilled
Sponsorship Salary Threshold
£33,400
(£17.13 per hour)
Immigration salary list rate applies
✓ On immigration salary list - lower visa fees apply
Above analytics are generated algorithmically based on job titles and may not always be the same as the company's job classification. You can also check detailed occupation eligibility, and salary criteria on our UK Visa Eligible Occupations & Salary Thresholds page.
Disclaimer: Hunt UK Visa Sponsors aggregates job listings from publicly available sources, such as search engines, to assist with your job hunting. We do not claim affiliation with Sky. For the most up-to-date job details, please visit the official website by clicking "Apply Now."
Description
Job Description
We are looking for a Senior VFX/Post Production Pipeline TD as part of a team being built in our new NxGen Studio - part hybrid VFX & AI post-production house, part R&D lab.
This is a rare opportunity to join something new, fast-growing, and genuinely pioneering with a huge brand name behind it, this will sit at the heart of Sky Creative - NxGen Studio is a bold, creatively led and technology-driven studio built for the next era of storytelling.
NxGen Studio exists to redefine how ideas are imagined and made. We bring together world-class human creativity and the transformative power of AI to unlock smarter, faster and more collaborative problem-solving — without sacrificing craft, authorship or control. By blending established production workflows with the cutting edge of AI-driven tools, we deliver originality, agility and first-class execution at scale.
As a Senior VFX / Post-Production Pipeline TD, you’ll own NxGen’s cloud-native backbone render, storage, identity and integrations, bridging on-prem and AWS so projects stay fast, secure and cost-efficient. You will also help shape the long-term technical direction of the NxGen pipeline and cloud infrastructure strategy, ensuring alignment with wider Sky enterprise standards and future growth plans.
We’re seeking a technically sharp, AI & production-savvy Pipeline TD who thrives at the intersection of creative and technical problem-solving. You’ll work closely with both technical support and production teams to build, maintain, and enhance pipeline tools that make our workflows smoother, faster, and more scalable. In addition to hands-on technical leadership, you will contribute to functional strategy, lead across complex technical teams, and help drive transformation initiatives that support NxGen’s evolution at scale.
You’ll be equally comfortable diving into Python code, troubleshooting Linux and Windows systems, and collaborating with creative teams to solve complex production challenges.
What You’ll Do
We are looking for a Senior VFX/Post Production Pipeline TD as part of a team being built in our new NxGen Studio - part hybrid VFX & AI post-production house, part R&D lab.
This is a rare opportunity to join something new, fast-growing, and genuinely pioneering with a huge brand name behind it, this will sit at the heart of Sky Creative - NxGen Studio is a bold, creatively led and technology-driven studio built for the next era of storytelling.
NxGen Studio exists to redefine how ideas are imagined and made. We bring together world-class human creativity and the transformative power of AI to unlock smarter, faster and more collaborative problem-solving — without sacrificing craft, authorship or control. By blending established production workflows with the cutting edge of AI-driven tools, we deliver originality, agility and first-class execution at scale.
As a Senior VFX / Post-Production Pipeline TD, you’ll own NxGen’s cloud-native backbone render, storage, identity and integrations, bridging on-prem and AWS so projects stay fast, secure and cost-efficient. You will also help shape the long-term technical direction of the NxGen pipeline and cloud infrastructure strategy, ensuring alignment with wider Sky enterprise standards and future growth plans.
We’re seeking a technically sharp, AI & production-savvy Pipeline TD who thrives at the intersection of creative and technical problem-solving. You’ll work closely with both technical support and production teams to build, maintain, and enhance pipeline tools that make our workflows smoother, faster, and more scalable. In addition to hands-on technical leadership, you will contribute to functional strategy, lead across complex technical teams, and help drive transformation initiatives that support NxGen’s evolution at scale.
You’ll be equally comfortable diving into Python code, troubleshooting Linux and Windows systems, and collaborating with creative teams to solve complex production challenges.
What You’ll Do
- You will manage post production pipeline for all projects in the NxGen Studio.
- Shape and evolve pipeline strategy and long-term technical roadmaps in line with NxGen and Sky Creative objectives.
- Act as SME for all related projects and mentor/train team members and managers in new ways of working and tools.
- Lead engineers and technical specialists across disciplines, ensuring delivery standards, capability growth, and operational resilience.
- Run render orchestration (AWS Deadline Cloud), coordinate distributed rendering workflows across multiple AWS regions and Deadline Cloud render farms to optimise performance and cost efficiency.
- Influence and guide the design and configuration of workstation builds to meet production and performance requirements (AWS EC2 AMIs), and maintain licence services.
- Manage data utilisation and workflow optimisation across hybrid cloud Pixit Media storage environments to ensure efficient access and collaboration.
- Write and maintain plugins/tools for key DCCs; set up CI/CD for the tooling stack.
- Establish and maintain technical standards, policies and governance frameworks across pipeline, cloud usage, and security to support the wider function.
- Harden security (IAM, VPC, secrets, network policies) aligned to Sky/Comcast standards.
- Maintain accountability for cloud infrastructure usage and associated budgets, ensuring cost transparency and optimisation.
- First-response triage for project issues; RCA and permanent fixes; maintain delivery SLOs.
- Contribute to transformation initiatives across NxGen, influencing stakeholders and representing the studio in cross-functional enterprise discussions where required.
- Work directly with creative teams to resolve technical challenges in active projects.
- Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, and debugging skills in a production environment.
- Extensive experience working Pipeline/Systems in VFX/Post; strong Python & Linux; render managers; AWS (EC2/S3/IAM/VPC).
- Solid experience managing teams to ensure delivery needs are met and collaborating with creative teams to ensure technical challenges/needs are resolved to meet the brief.
- Experience contributing to functional strategy and leading complex technical teams across multiple disciplines.
- Experience influencing senior stakeholders and supporting transformation initiatives beyond individual project delivery.
- Experience with remote workstations, storage/networking, security and observability.
- DCC API familiarity (e.g., Nuke, C4D, Houdini, Redshift, Resolve, After Effects, AI Tools).
- Strong working knowledge of production/content management and versioning systems (e.g. Autodesk Flow).
- Experience managing software lifecycle, production releases, version control (e.g. Git), and automated builds.
- Understanding of VFX colour pipeline, including ACES workflows.
- CI/CD and containerisation experience; calm, collaborative problem-solver.
- AI-first approach to considering integration and workflows.
- An inspiring problem solver, a fixer. Keep the studio and projects running while enabling long-term scalability and enterprise alignment.
Sky Creative is Sky’s European Brand and Creative hub providing Brand Strategy, Brand Design, Advertising, Promotions, Broadcast Creative and Digital Design for multiple stakeholders across our European Markets.
From rebranding Sky Sports to designing key art and creating large-scale ATL campaigns for Sky’s commissions and original productions, we are uniquely placed to offer our people a huge range of exciting and diverse opportunities.
We believe that an in-house agency is the best of both worlds. A great portfolio of work with unrivalled proximity to our clients, programme makers and commissioners alike. We are passionate about what we do and share first-hand in the success of the brands, shows and content we help create, promote and market.
We’re committed to delivering brilliant creative, made by people that love what they do.
The rewards
There's one thing people can't stop talking about when it comes to : the perks. Here’s a taster:
We know the world has changed, and we want to offer our employees the chance to collaborate at our unique office spaces, whilst enjoying the convenience of working from home.
We've adopted a hybrid working approach to give more flexibility on where and how we work. You'll find out more about what this means for this role during the recruitment process.
Where You’ll Work
Osterley
Our Osterley campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Chiswick Park, Gunnersbury, Acton Town and Ealing Broadway tube stations. There’s also plenty of parking, bike shelters and showers.
On campus you’ll find six subsidised restaurants and a Waitrose. You can keep in shape at our subsidised gym, catch the latest shows and movies at our cinema, get your car washed and even get pampered at our beauty salon.
Inclusion
We take pride in our approach to diversity and inclusion: we’ve been recognised by The Times and Stonewall for this, and we’ve committed £30million to support the fight against racial injustice. We’ve also set ambitious targets for increasing ethnic diversity and representation throughout our organisation.
At Sky we don’t just look at your CV. We’re more focused on who you are and the potential you’ll bring to Sky. We also know that everyone has a life outside work, so we’re happy to discuss flexible working.
And we’ll do everything we can to support you during your application. If you need us to make any adjustments to our recruitment process, speak to our recruitment team who will be happy to support you.
- Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place
- The magic of Sky Glass at an exclusive rate
- A generous pension package
- Private healthcare
- Discounted mobile and broadband
- A wide range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences
We know the world has changed, and we want to offer our employees the chance to collaborate at our unique office spaces, whilst enjoying the convenience of working from home.
We've adopted a hybrid working approach to give more flexibility on where and how we work. You'll find out more about what this means for this role during the recruitment process.
Where You’ll Work
Osterley
Our Osterley campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Chiswick Park, Gunnersbury, Acton Town and Ealing Broadway tube stations. There’s also plenty of parking, bike shelters and showers.
On campus you’ll find six subsidised restaurants and a Waitrose. You can keep in shape at our subsidised gym, catch the latest shows and movies at our cinema, get your car washed and even get pampered at our beauty salon.
Inclusion
We take pride in our approach to diversity and inclusion: we’ve been recognised by The Times and Stonewall for this, and we’ve committed £30million to support the fight against racial injustice. We’ve also set ambitious targets for increasing ethnic diversity and representation throughout our organisation.
At Sky we don’t just look at your CV. We’re more focused on who you are and the potential you’ll bring to Sky. We also know that everyone has a life outside work, so we’re happy to discuss flexible working.
And we’ll do everything we can to support you during your application. If you need us to make any adjustments to our recruitment process, speak to our recruitment team who will be happy to support you.