We are seeking a methodical and detail-oriented Quality Control & Metadata Technician to support the ongoing digitisation and preservation of our legacy video archive. This role is critical to ensuring the accuracy, completeness, and long‑term integrity of our digital assets.
The successful candidate will be responsible for assessing the technical quality of newly digitised video files, validating that they meet preservation standards before the corresponding original tapes are deaccessioned. In parallel, they will transcribe and enrich the associated metadata, often derived from handwritten logs, to improve searchability and contextual understanding of global news footage.
Given the scale of the project, the role requires not only precision but also the ability to work efficiently and maintain high quality within a high‑volume workflow. A solid understanding of world events and geopolitics will help the candidate accurately interpret the content.
About the Role:
In this opportunity as Quality Assurance Engineer, you will:
Quality Control of Digitized Video
Conduct rigorous QC checks on newly digitized video files, ensuring technical accuracy
Flag any issues, anomalies, or missing content and coordinate with the Archive Team for re-digitization.
Meet project throughput targets while maintaining consistent accuracy and attention to detail.
Metadata Transcription & Enrichment
Accurately transcribe handwritten shotlists, labels, and documentation into structured digital metadata fields.
Enrich metadata with correct names, locations, dates, and context to enhance discoverability and search relevance.
Identify key individuals, locations, and events within footage, drawing on a strong understanding of global news, geopolitical history, and current affairs.
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Maintain accurate records of QC outcomes, errors found, and corrections made.
Follow established workflows and contribute to process improvements where appropriate.
About You:
You're a fit for the role of Quality Assurance Engineer if your background includes:
We are looking for candidates with 0 to 1 year of relevant work experience.
Exceptional attention to detail and a methodical approach to repetitive, accuracy‑critical tasks.
Experience in video quality control, media handling, digitisation, or archive work.
Ability to read and accurately interpret handwritten notes in varying styles and conditions.
Strong understanding of global news, geography, and geopolitics.
Strong organisational and time‑management skills with the ability to manage a high‑volume workflow.
Proficient in using digital asset management systems.
Experience working with broadcast or histo ical media archives.
Familiarity with tape-based video formats (e.g., Betacam, DVCAM, U-Matic).
Able to balance precision with efficiency in a time‑sensitive workflow.
Curious, analytical, and able to recognise patterns and inconsistencies.
Comfortable working independently as well as collaboratively.
Keen interest in history, world events, and archival preservation.
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What’s in it For You?
- Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
- Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
- Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
- Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
- Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
- Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
- Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.
About Us
Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.
We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.
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