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About the Role

The Director of Broadcast Engineering leads the reliability, development, and daily upkeep of technical systems and engineering support for the control room and connected production infrastructure at Barclays Center. This position manages the engineering team, establishes technical standards, and aligns staffing, maintenance, and capital planning with event needs. The Director provides hands-on leadership during complex technical issues and partners with Production, IPTV, IT, and external broadcast teams.

Responsibilities

Leads the engineering teams, including managing, coaching, and evaluating the Video Engineering and Audio Engineering teams.
Establishes team priorities, delegates tasks, plans event coverage, and coordinates part-time staff, union crews, and contractors.
Coordinates events and partnership needs, working with production leadership, event operations, visiting broadcasts, and other departments to translate show requirements into practical engineering plans, communicate limitations, and establish service and escalation expectations.
Maintains NBA & WNBA requirements by managing NBA HSAN infrastructure, game clock systems, coach’s feeds distribution, locker room infrastructure, official replay systems, player tracking technology, and related game-day technical requirements.
Owns broadcast system performance and oversees the SMPTE ST 2110 environment, including Grass Valley Kayenne/K-Frame, Evertz EXE/MAGNUM, DreamCatcher, Dante audio systems, Riedel intercom, QC monitoring, Adder KVM, and signal distribution systems.
Establishes reliability and recovery plans by developing preventive maintenance, monitoring, configuration backups, software and firmware planning, and redundancy testing.
Leads critical technical responses and acts as a key part of senior staff escalation for issues and failures that affect events or game-day operations.
Provides on-call support to coordinate service restoration, communicate impacts, and ensures root-cause of issues are reviewed to produce corrective actions.
Manages projects, vendors, and resources, defining project requirements, evaluating vendors, managing approved expenditures, and overseeing installation, commissioning, acceptance testing, and handover.
Maintains engineering standards by creating documentation, inventory, access, and configuration standards.
Coordinates broadcast network changes with IT, maintains drawings and procedures, and uses incident trends to prioritize training and system improvements.

Requirements

Minimum 10 years of broadcast engineering or comparable live production infrastructure experience.
Minimum of three years supervising technical staff and leading engineering projects, maintenance programs, and/or event support.
Demonstrated ability to design, support, and troubleshoot SMPTE ST 2110 systems, including PTP synchronization, multicast traffic, IP addressing, VLANs, network redundancy, and interfaces between IP and SDI systems.
Strong understanding of switchers, routers, replay/playback, cameras, broadcast audio, intercom, tally/control, and monitoring, with working familiarity with lighting interfaces.
Ability to interpret and create engineering/CAD drawings and establish accurate signal-flow, cabling, and system documentation.
Ability to develop budgets, evaluate technical proposals, manage vendors and implementation schedules, and make equipment lifecycle recommendations based on operational needs, reliability, and available resources.
Sound judgment under live event pressure, with the ability to explain technical decisions clearly, resolve competing priorities, train staff, and collaborate with internal partners, visiting production teams, multiple trades, and union crews.
Ability to work flexible schedules as needed to support live events, urgent technical issues, maintenance windows, and last-minute schedule adjustments.
The role regularly requires nights, weekends, and holidays, including extended days, late nights, and early mornings, and may include on-call support for time-sensitive technical needs.
Must be a team player, highly motivated, and have an eye for production best practices.
Must be a self-starter, work well independently, and collaborate in a team environment.

Skills

Troubleshooting
Root-Cause Analysis
Continuous Improvement
Preventive Maintenance
Redundancy Planning
Lifecycle Planning
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Stakeholder Communication
Project Management
Vendor Management
Resource Management
Broadcast Infrastructure
Signal Flow
System Documentation
Live Event Systems Reliability
Critical Incident Response
Technical Leadership
Team Development
Broadcast Engineering
SMPTE ST 2110

Location

On-site
Brooklyn, New York

Work Type

Full-Time
Salaried
On-site

Experience Level

Director
Minimum 10 years of broadcast engineering or comparable live production infrastructure experience
Minimum of three years supervising technical staff and leading engineering projects, maintenance programs, and/or event support

Salary/Compensations

$124,500
$130,000

About the Company

At Barclays Center, we're more than just a venue – we're a dynamic community driven by a shared passion for creating unforgettable live experiences.
We're dedicated to nurturing our team members and empowering them to thrive in an environment where innovation, collaboration, and a love for sports entertainment intersect.
Our four company values, Care, Integrity, Accountability and Growth Mindset, are reflected in everything that we do here at Barclays Center.