Senior Live Sports Technical Lead

Sky; Greater London; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free Sky TV or NOW package

Pension package with up to 9% employer

Private healthcare with mental health

Aviva Digital GP and dental insurance

Discounts on Sky products

Sharesave and Tech schemes

Sky VIP rewards and experiences

Job summary

Sky Sports is seeking a Technical Supervisor to join the Technical Management team, owning day-to-day technical production for gallery delivery and coordinating across Sky’s facilities, including remote and cloud productions. You will report to a Studios Technical Manager and work with studios craft teams across Sky’s innovative environments.

In this role you’ll set up galleries, configure equipment to broadcast standards, troubleshoot incidents, and maintain technical documentation.

Qualifications

• Up-to-date knowledge of broadcast technology, developments, and techniques, including Remote Production and HDR.
• Experience with broadcast standard equipment including camera and replay systems.
• Solid understanding of production technical areas including galleries and studios, working across remote production and cloud-based.
• Confident to work in studio and live production environments with calm under pressure.
• Strong communication and a commitment to continuous self-improvement.

Responsibilities

• Provide first-line technical support acting as the key point-of-contact for engineering incidents affecting gallery and production operations, liaising with Production teams and escalating as appropriate.
• Set-up galleries, studios and equipment. Ensure signal paths are aligned and configured to broadcast standards.
• Route internal and external sources, floor vision monitoring and in-vision monitoring, coordinating with OBs, remote productions and MCRs.
• Match signals, colour balance and video levels by eye to meet broadcast standards.
• Develop, contribute to, and maintain comprehensive technical documentation.
• Travel to support OB technical rigs and operations as needed.

Skills

Broadcast tech

Remote Production

HDR

Camera systems

Studio production

Live production

Tools

Broadcast equipment

Job description

Sky Sports is seeking a Technical Supervisor to join the Technical Management team, owning day-to-day technical production for gallery delivery and coordinating across Sky’s facilities, including remote and cloud productions. You will report to a Studios Technical Manager and work with studios craft teams across Sky’s innovative environments.

In this role you’ll set up galleries, configure equipment to broadcast standards, troubleshoot incidents, and maintain technical documentation.