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Our focus is YOU!\nAt 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.\nIf you're someone who lives and breathes events, fueled by an unwavering passion for creating magic in every moment, then we want you to join us in shaping the future of live entertainment. Come be a part of our vibrant community, where every day offers the chance to inspire, innovate, and make memories that last a lifetime!\nOur Company Values\nWe understand that it is important for you to know what our values are to determine if they align with yours. Our four company values, Care, Integrity, Accountability and Growth Mindset, are reflected in everything that we do here at Barclays Center. From the interview process to employee recognition, we make certain to incorporate the four values.\nKey Attributes for Success\nTo excel in this role, candidates must demonstrate strong technical leadership, sound judgment under live event pressure, effective communication, collaboration, adaptability, proactive problem-solving, and meticulous attention to detail. These attributes are essential to maintaining reliable broadcast infrastructure, supporting complex live events, and partnering effectively with internal teams, visiting production teams, vendors, contractors, and union crews.\n1. Technical Leadership:\nDemonstrates strong engineering leadership and the ability to establish priorities, standards, and clear expectations.\nCoaches and develops technical staff while balancing daily operations, event coverage, and long-term system needs.\nTakes ownership of system reliability and engineering outcomes.\n2. Collaboration & Partnership:\nWorks effectively with Production, IPTV, IT, event operations, visiting broadcasts, vendors, contractors, and union crews.\nBuilds trusted relationships and translates technical requirements into practical engineering plans.\nCommunicates service expectations, limitations, and escalation paths clearly.\n3. Adaptability:\nResponds effectively to changing event requirements, technical issues, maintenance windows, and last-minute schedule adjustments.\nMaintains composure and sound judgment in dynamic, high-pressure live event environments.\nAdjusts priorities to protect event continuity and operational needs.\n4. Effective Communication:\nExplains technical decisions, risks, and recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nCommunicates during critical incidents to coordinate service restoration and manage operational impacts.\nCreates clear documentation, procedures, and standards that support consistent execution.\n5. Proactive Problem-Solving:\nIdentifies potential reliability issues and develops preventive maintenance, monitoring, redundancy, and recovery strategies.\nUses incident trends and root-cause reviews to drive corrective actions, training, and system improvements.\nApproaches complex technical challenges with practical, solutions-oriented thinking.\n6. Operational & Technical Excellence:\nMaintains high standards for system performance, configuration, documentation, and event readiness.\nUnderstands complex broadcast, audio, intercom, monitoring, control, and IP-based infrastructure.\nBalances reliability, operational requirements, lifecycle planning, and available resources.\n7. Meticulous Attention to Detail:\nEnsures accurate signal-flow, cabling, drawings, inventory, access, configuration, and system documentation.\nOversees testing, commissioning, acceptance, and handover with a high level of technical precision.\nPOSITION SUMMARY\nThe 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. Reporting to the Senior Director of Facilities Presentation, 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.\nESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES: What You Will Do\nLeads the engineering teams which includes but not exclusive to managing, coaching, and evaluating the Video Engineering team and the Audio Engineering team.\nEstablishes team priorities, delegate tasks, plan event coverage, and coordinate part-time staff, union crews, and contractors.\nCoordinates events and partnership needs in addition to working with production leadership, event operations, visiting broadcasts, and other departments to translate show requirements into practical engineering plans, communicates limitations, and establish service and escalation expectations.\nMaintains NBA & WNBA requirements through 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.\nOwn broadcast system performance and oversee 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.\nEstablishes reliability and recovery plans by developing preventive maintenance, monitoring, configuration backups, software and firmware planning, and redundancy testing.\nLeads 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, ensures root-cause of issues are reviewed that produces corrective actions.\nManages projects, vendors, and resources. Defines project requirements, evaluates vendors, manage approved expenditures, and oversees installation, commissioning, acceptance testing, and handover.\nMaintain engineering standards by creating documentation, inventory, access, and configuration standards.\nCoordinates broadcast network changes with IT, maintain drawings and procedures, and uses incident trends to prioritize training and system improvements.\nCANDIDATE PROFILE: Who You Are\nThe ideal candidate brings deep broadcast engineering expertise, strong technical leadership, and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced live event environment.\nMinimum 10 years of broadcast engineering or comparable live production infrastructure experience, including a minimum of three years supervising technical staff and leading engineering projects, maintenance programs, and/or event support.\nDemonstrated 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.\nStrong understanding of switchers, routers, replay/playback, cameras, broadcast audio, intercom, tally/control, and monitoring, with working familiarity with lighting interfaces.\nAbility to interpret and create engineering/CAD drawings and establish accurate signal-flow, cabling, and system documentation.\nAbility to develop budgets, evaluate technical proposals, manage vendors and implementation schedules, and make equipment lifecycle recommendations based on operational needs, reliability, and available resources.\nSound 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.\nAbility 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.\nYou’re a team player, highly motivated, and have an eye for production best practices\nYou’re self-starter, works well independently, and collaborates in a team environment\nKEY COMPETENCIES: Skills You Possess\nTroubleshooting, Root-Cause Analysis & Continuous Improvement\nPreventive Maintenance, Redundancy & Lifecycle Planning\nCross-Functional Collaboration & Stakeholder Communication\nProject, Vendor & Resource Management\nBroadcast Infrastructure, Signal Flow & System Documentation\nLive Event Systems Reliability & Critical Incident Response\nTechnical Leadership & Team Development\nBroadcast Engineering & SMPTE ST 2110\nWORK ENVIRONMENT: Where You Will Be\nThis position is fully on-site based in Barclays Center, located in the heart of Brooklyn, New York.\nThis role requires consistent attendance to support daily operations, foster collaboration, and provide direct support to employees, business partners and key stakeholders.\nAbility to work flexible hours to support live events, urgent technical issues, maintenance windows, and last-minute schedule adjustments is crucial. 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