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. The role centres on Euro League TV (ELTV) and its OTT platform, supported by the media asset management environment, automated content generation stack, content publishing and distribution workflows, and historical media archive. It owns these systems end to end, including technical architecture and roadmap, integrations, lifecycle, vendor governance, service quality, content protection and compliance enforcement, and leads major technical programmes affecting the streaming platform.

The role works closely with Marketing Technology, Technical Product Management, Data, ICT and Systems & Security Operations, alongside external platform, production and content partners, while commercial negotiation, content rights acquisition, editorial curation, pricing and packaging, promotional planning, CRM, paid acquisition and the marketing technology stack sit outside its remit.

• 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
• Own playback quality, availability and performance standards across markets and devices, driving continuous improvement based on usage, platform telemetry and support data.
• Hold the day-to-day technical relationship with the streaming platform provider, including release planning, roadmap alignment, escalation, structured service reviews, and review deliverables against defined technical requirements.
• Lead major platform programmes end to end, including requirements definition, integration design, entitlement and user data migration, environment and release management, acceptance testing, cutover and go-live
• Implement and maintain technical configuration supporting the commercial proposition, including subscription and entitlement setup, checkout and payment integrations, and in-stream advertising on the streaming platform.
• Own technical onboarding of content from external rights holders, including ingest of live feeds, archives and metadata, implementation of licensor content protection and delivery requirements, and maintain a repeatable onboarding process for new content and distribution partners
• Own the technical delivery of content to channel stores, aggregators and partner platforms as a subscription channel and as supplied content, meeting partner technical specifications and keeping entitlements, metadata and availability in sync.
• Own the media and digital asset management environment, including asset ingest, metadata models and taxonomy, rights and usage metadata, permissions, and automated traceable asset flows
• Own the automated content generation stack and its integrations with competitions and production feeds, including publishing rules and delivery into the OTT platform and consuming channels.
• Own the technical content publishing model within the streaming platform and its content management backend, covering scheduling, metadata, rails and homepage configuration, VOD ingest and continuous channel delivery, and drive automation of recurring manual tasks.
• Own the technical delivery of integrations between the streaming and media platforms and the wider ecosystem, including game centre and live schedule, broadcaster and club assets from the Competition Engine, the identity and single sign-on layer, partner and sponsor activations on live streams and affiliate partners; implement the event taxonomy and tracking framework defined with Marketing Technology and Data, govern vendor…