Tennis Technical Lead - Data

Job description

Tennis Technical Lead (Data), Tennis Location: UK You’ll spend the majority of the time either working remotely from home or from our London or Basingstoke office. You won’t be expected to travel often but may want or need to visit event(s) to get an in-person view of how Data generation and distribution is performing and works in our operational workflows. Approximate ratio 85% Office / Remote Work, 15% On Site / Travel. Reporting to: Tennis Technical Manager Tennis Technical Team member alongside Technical Manager, Technical Project Managers and Technical Leads Why Hawk-Eye & Why Tennis? Join us at Hawk-Eye and be part of an exhilarating journey through the world of sports events. Our operations teams play a crucial role in delivering high-quality experiences at major sporting events worldwide. These are the different areas that you can explore: Technical : Testing, improving and stress testing our systems to enhance the performance of our delivery across the tours. Creative : Working closely with TV directors and external broadcasters to provide statistics and storytelling of insights across tennis matches during live broadcasts. Operations : Reviewing, improving and strategising how we improve the efficiency of delivery across the globe. Projects: On-site management of our service delivery across the globe. Liaising with external stakeholders to organise our technical requirements to be ready and sites to be prepared for our arrival, and to deliver our services to the deadline of the events. Broadcast Production : Rigging and directing live TV broadcasts across the Masters 1000s ATP tour. » Who is the Tennis Technical Team? The Tennis Technical Team oversees all technical aspects of the department, including the planning and delivery of our technology at events, testing and roll out of new software releases and new products, and advising on hardware specifications. They also directly impact the long term product roadmaps for tennis through reporting bugs, feature requests and new ideas through to the Product and Development teams. As Data Lead you will fit in as part of the technical pillar within Tennis. At each event there is a Technical Guarantee whose role it is to oversee our full technical delivery including the delivery of our data - this includes the hardware and software set up of Hawk-Eye’s Tennis Data Platform on site. It is this data platfor…