Senior Distribution Engineer in London

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Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) Sports Europe represents WBD’s portfolio of sports brands, channels, and platforms in Europe. It collectively engages 130 million people every month, reaching fans and broad audiences in more than 200 markets and in 20 languages across all platforms where consumers are spending time: free-to-air TV, pay-TV, streaming, online and social. WBD Sports Europe includes the much-loved consumer brands Eurosport and TNT Sports in the UK and Ireland, as well sports programming and content on WBD’s free-to-air TV networks and streaming on HBO Max. They connect audiences with the greatest sporting events in the world.

Our Team: As Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) portfolio continues to grow – around the world and across platforms – the Technology & Operations team is building media technology and IT systems that meet world class standards for which WBD is known. MT&O builds, implements and maintains the business systems and technology that are critical for delivering WBD’s products, while articulating the long-term technology strategy that will enable WBD’s growing pay-tv, digital terrestrial, free-to-air and online services to reach more audiences on more platforms.

Your New Role: With a focus on networking, international satellite & fibre methodology and compression & distribution technologies reporting to the Director of Distribution Engineering & Operations, the role provides technical leadership and ownership for distribution engineering systems and services, leading complex projects, mentoring engineers, defining engineering standards, managing technical suppliers, and driving the strategic evolution, resilience, and operational excellence of Warner Bros. Discovery's distribution infrastructure across the EMEA region.

Your Role Accountabilities:

• Manage, maintain and configure compression technology systems located at diverse locations.
• Work with the team to develop new broadcast systems and maintain and develop existing systems.
• Liaise with various internal project teams to deliver on future projects and services, and to manage changes to existing services.
• Provide second line support to the first line DMCC support team.
• Perform maintenance and diagnostic support for failing elements within transmission streams.
• Work closely with the team in the management of third party suppliers and their implementation of projects and upgrades on WBD's behalf, ensuring support agreements and SLAs are met and adhered to and risk mitigated.
• Track system equipment repairs and returns.
• Create and update system documentation.
• Design and propose fully costed technical solutions and implement these solutions.
• Work collaboratively with direct hired-in technical and engineering contractors.
• Represent Distribution Engineering in cross-functional forums, project meetings, and external industry engagements.
• Act as the technical lead for major distribution, compression, networking, and broadcast infrastructure projects.
• Lead root cause analysis of complex or recurring service issues and drive long-term corrective actions.
• Support career development and succession planning within the engineering team.
• Evaluate emerging broadcast, IP, cloud, and distribution technologies and provide recommendations to management.
• Provide on call out of hours support as part of a departmental support rota.
• Other duties as required.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Educated to degree level, BSc or BEng or equivalent experience.
• Proven track record and demonstrable multi-year experience in broadcast technology and engineering.
• A calm and authoritative demeanour with an ability to remain focused and make accurate decisions in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
• A strategic mindset with a tenacious approach to problem solving.
• Ability to demonstrate strong leadership when required.
• A collaborative and inclusive management style.
• In-depth knowledge of television distribution systems, platforms, and standards.
• Working knowledge of digital baseband signals, SDI, HD-SDI and ASI for video and PCM, Dolby D and E and its variants for audio signals as well as awareness of TCP/IP Network concepts including multicast traffic.
• Knowledge of and experience with SMPTE 2110.
• Working experience with Television Distribution Systems – fibre and satellite based encoding, as well as Telemetry Monitoring and Control Systems.
• Provide input for budget planning.
• Providing statistics on workload and deliverables for the Distribution Engineering EMEA team.

How We Get Things Done: Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done.

Championing Inclusion at WBD: Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.

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Onsite Working: This role is advertised as Onsite, meaning all working hours and days (regardless of shift pattern) will be carried out at the place of work. Subject to any applicable laws, WBD / your Line Manager reserves the right to change this working agreement, where this is essential to business needs and upon reasonable notice to you.