Streaming & Media Technology Director

The Streaming & Media Technology Director holds full technical accountability for the platforms that deliver Euro league Basketball’s streaming and media proposition across its competitions. Euro League TV (ELTV) and the OTT platform behind it are the centre of the role, supported by the media asset management environment, the automated content generation stack, the content publishing and distribution workflows, and the historical media archive.

The role owns these systems end to end: technical architecture and roadmap, integrations, lifecycle, vendor governance, service quality, content protection and compliance enforcement. It leads the major technical programmes affecting the streaming platform, including the onboarding of third-party content and distribution to partner platforms, ensuring the platform performs reliably across the competitions’ calendar. Scope boundaries. The role owns the streaming and media technology stack and its technical roadmap, including the streaming platform’s own content management backend.

It holds the technical relationship with platform, content and distribution partners, but not the commercial one: contract negotiation and commercial terms sit outside the role. It does not own content rights acquisition, editorial curation, pricing and packaging, promotional planning, CRM or paid acquisition, nor the marketing technology stack (web and app CMS, CRM, identity and single sign-on, consent, digital analytics, tag management, ad tech and app stores), which sits with Marketing Technology and which this role integrates with.

It works in close coordination with Marketing Technology, Technical Product Management, Data, ICT and Systems & Security Operations, alongside external platform, production and content partners.

• Own the technical architecture and roadmap of the OTT platform, covering ingest, encoding and packaging, playout, CDN, DRM and playback, metadata, and delivery across web, apps, connected TV and console environments.
• Hold the day-to-day technical relationship with the streaming platform provider, including release planning, roadmap alignment, escalation and structured service reviews, and review deliverables against defined technical requirements.
• Lead major platform programmes end to end: requirements definition, integration design, entitlement and user data migration, environment and release management, acceptance testing, cutover and go-live.
• Implement and maintain the technical configuration that supports the commercial proposition defined by the commercial and product functions, including subscription and entitlement setup, checkout and payment integrations, and in-stream advertising on the streaming platform.
• Own playback quality, availability and performance standards across markets and devices, and drive continuous improvement based on real usage, platform telemetry and support data.

• Own the technical onboarding of content from external rights holders, including the ingest of their live feeds, archives and metadata into the catalogue, and the implementation of each licensor’s content protection and delivery requirements.
• Own the technical delivery of content to channel stores, aggregators and partner platforms, both as a subscription channel and as content supplied to third-party services, meeting each partner’s technical specifications and keeping entitlements, metadata and availability in sync.
• Maintain a repeatable technical onboarding process for new content and distribution partners, so each new agreement can be implemented predictably and without bespoke rework.

• Own the media and digital asset management…