Broadcast and Streaming Platform Manager

Leeds, · Hybrid

About this role

Broadcast and Streaming Platform Manager

Department: 61-155 - Broadcast - Broadcast Engineering

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: UK - Leeds

Reporting To: John Wardropper



Description

Are you passionate about shaping the future of live sport and the technology that powers it? At DAZN, we're redefining how millions of fans experience live events, delivering premium sports content seamlessly across the globe. Behind every stream is a complex ecosystem of broadcast and streaming technologies, and our Broadcast & Streaming Platform Engineering team sits at the heart of it all.

Joining this team will give you end-to-end visibility across DAZN's entire live video workflow, from signal acquisition and production through playout, OTT headends, CDN distribution, playback services, and player technology. You'll have the opportunity to influence the future direction of our broadcast platforms, helping to deliver world-class viewing experiences while driving innovation, scalability, and operational excellence across our global business.
As a Broadcast & Streaming Platform Manager, you will play a key role in evolving and optimising DAZN's broadcast and streaming infrastructure. Working across multiple engineering and operational teams, you'll identify opportunities for improvement, influence technology decisions, and ensure new workflows and services are successfully integrated into the platform.

Acting as a technical bridge between internal teams and external suppliers, you'll help shape the future of DAZN's streaming capabilities while driving best practices, operational consistency, and service excellence. This is an exciting opportunity for someone with a deep understanding of broadcast and streaming technologies who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is passionate about delivering exceptional live experiences to millions of sports fans.


What You'll Be Doing:

  • Identifying, prioritising, and delivering technical improvements across DAZN's broadcast and streaming platforms
  • Acting as a key technical point of contact for third-party suppliers and technology partners
  • Leading investigations into technical issues, performing trend analysis, and implementing long-term improvements
  • Managing device utilisation and capacity planning to ensure platform scalability and resilience
  • Influencing project requirements and driving the transition of new solutions into Engineering Support
  • Building strong relationships with technical and operational stakeholders across the business
  • Communicating key platform developments, changes, and technical updates to engineering and operational teams
  • Supporting the ongoing evolution of DAZN's end-to-end broadcast and streaming workflows


What You'll Bring:

  • Deep knowledge of broadcast and streaming engineering technologies
  • Strong understanding of signal acquisition, production, transmission, encoding, and content distribution workflows
  • Experience working with public cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to audiences of varying technical backgrounds
  • Proven experience building relationships across multiple teams and seniority levels to deliver collaborative outcome
It's even better if you have:
  • Experience working with third-party technology vendors and suppliers
  • Hands-on experience with cloud-based broadcast deployments
  • Knowledge of orchestration technologies and automation frameworks
  • Experience using scripting and data analysis to monitor performance and drive platform improvements
  • A passion for innovation and improving large-scale media delivery systems


Benefits

Benefits include access to DAZN, 25 days’ annual leave (increasing by 3 days after 3 years), private medical insurance, life assurance, pension contributions up to 5%, family friendly community including enhanced parental leave, electric vehicle benefit option, learning and development resources, opportunity for flexible working, and access to our internal speaker series and events.

Company at a glance

We are DAZN. We are innovators, game-changers and pioneers. Together, we bring ambition to life.

We are the digital leader in global sports media. We are home to the world’s largest, fastest-growing sports streaming service. We're using world-class technology to revolutionise the industry.

As part of our team you'll have the opportunity to make your mark and the power to make change happen. We're doing things no-one has done before, giving fans and customers access to sport anytime, anywhere.

For us, it's all about Limitless Ambition - never settling, always restless, always wanting more for our customers. We're growing fast and have made a big impact so far, and that's just the beginning. There's so much we can do. Working with us is exciting, empowering and truly global.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment, both inside and outside of our walls, that values equality and diversity. A place where everyone can contribute at the highest level and have their voices heard. For us, this means hiring and developing talent across all races, ethnicities, religions, age groups, sexual orientations, gender identities and abilities.

If you’d like to include a cover letter with your application, that’s fine. Please do not feel you need to apply with a photo or disclose any other information that is not related to your professional experience. Our aim is to make our hiring processes as accessible for everyone as possible. We will do our best to accommodate adjustments for interviews.

If you're ambitious, inventive, passionate, brave and supportive, then you're the kind of person who's going to enjoy life at DAZN.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Team Size1,001-5,000 employees
WorkspaceHybrid
IndustrySpectator Sports
Location
Morley, England, United Kingdom
LinkedInLinkedIn

Top Benefits

  • Access to DAZN
  • 25 days annual leave
  • Private medical insurance
  • Life assurance
  • Pension contributions up to 5%
  • Enhanced parental leave
  • Electric vehicle benefit option
  • Learning and development resources
  • Flexible working
  • Internal speaker series and events

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