Amazon Head Engineering EU Prime Video Live Sports - Tech Ops 

United Kingdom, England, London 

172555888

Prime Video is seeking a Head of Engineering EU for our global Live Sports Production Technical Operations team. The ideal candidate will shape and drive the technical strategy for our international live sports production. You will provide leadership, vision, and day-to-day engineering expertise and technical operations oversight for Prime Video Live Sports international properties. Responsibilities include technical operations design and launch of our international live sports productions, including year-over-year evaluations of existing productions to drive continuous improvement. This role requires a seasoned technical leader with chief engineering background, business acumen and experience dealing with vendors that has the ability to deal with ambiguity, and a drive to learn and be curious in a high-pressure environment that is constantly evolving.Key job responsibilities
• Manage technical vendor relationships for Prime Video Live Sports properties including NBA International, UCL, EPL, Wimbledon, Roland Garros, and Copa de Brasil
• Design and implement technical workflows in partnership with our technical service providers and league partners
• Edit and craft technical language for RFPs, RFIs, and work agreement contracts necessary to execute our productions in accordance with Amazon legal requirements
• Work closely with technical vendors and partners to stay current with the latest broadcast technologies
• Research, design and implement cloud production workflows with our internal AWS partners and SaaS service providers
• Oversee and support networking and communications requirements for our live production monitoring platform utilized by our UK team to monitor and communicate with live events in real-time
• Work in collaboration with Production Operations group to manage event related technical budget components
• Approximately 25-30 percent travel, both domestic and International. Travel schedule to vary based sport properties season and event schedule.

• Experience in Broadcast Technical Operations and Engineering Management.
• In-depth knowledge of remote production environments
• Knowledge of video, audio, communications, networking, camera systems, transmission, and replay systems
• Experience working with multiple stakeholders in live television production environments
• Experience educating non-technical stakeholders and working across multiple teams and regions

• Undergraduate degree Electrical Engineering, Media Production, Computer Science (or equivalent experience in Broadcast Engineering with Management responsibilities.
• Experience working on or with large-scale, network level productions
• Experience with industry standard production equipment such as audio consoles, graphics systems, replay systems, production switchers and intercom systems
• Working knowledge large scale media networks
• Ability to problem-solve and multi-task in fast-paced, dynamic environments
• Extremely detail-oriented, organized, and a team player
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with ability to clearly articulate and document technical processes
• Project management experience