Senior Manager, TV Technology Engineering

ABOUT FANDUEL

FanDuel Group is the premier mobile gaming company in the United States and Canada. FanDuel Group consists of a portfolio of leading brands across mobile wagering including: America’s #1 Sportsbook, FanDuel Sportsbook; its leading iGaming platform, FanDuel Casino; the industry’s unquestioned leader in horse racing and advance-deposit wagering, FanDuel Racing; and its daily fantasy sports product.  

In addition, FanDuel Group operates FanDuel TV, its broadly distributed linear cable television network and FanDuel TV+, its leading direct-to-consumer OTT platform. FanDuel Group has a presence across all 50 states, Canada, and Puerto Rico.

The company is based in New York with US offices in Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Jersey City, as well as global offices in Canada and Scotland. The company’s affiliates have offices worldwide, including in Ireland, Portugal, Romania, and Australia.

FanDuel Group is a subsidiary of Flutter Entertainment, the world's largest sports betting and gaming operator with a portfolio of globally recognized brands and traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: FLUT).

THE POSITION
Our roster has an opening with your name on it

FanDuel is seeking a Senior Manager, TV Technology Engineering, to define and lead the strategic direction of our end-to-end broadcast and streaming infrastructure. As a senior individual contributor, you will serve as the principal architect responsible for shaping the technology roadmap across studio production, live and linear broadcast, postproduction, media asset management, playout, and direct-to-consumer streaming platforms. This role is pivotal in aligning media technology with business priorities, driving innovation, and ensuring platform resilience, scalability, and regulatory compliance. You will partner closely with senior leadership across Technology, Product, Marketing, Data Science, and Commercial teams to deliver forward-thinking solutions that enhance FanDuel’s media delivery capabilities across all channels. This is a high-visibility position ideal for a deeply experienced technologist with the vision, credibility, and technical depth to influence at scale and build the future of FanDuel.

In addition to the specific responsibilities outlined above, employees may be required to perform other such duties as assigned by the Company. This ensures operational flexibility and allows the Company to meet evolving business needs.

THE GAME PLAN
Everyone on our team has a part to play

• Define and lead strategic broadcast and streaming initiatives across studio, linear, and OTT platforms, aligning project outcomes with broader business goals.
• Develop project scopes, timelines, budgets, and KPIs in close partnership with senior leadership and cross-functional teams.
• Drive continuous improvement through the optimization of workflows, systems architecture, and cross-functional communication models.
• Architect and evolve broadcast infrastructure with an emphasis on resilience, scalability, and minimal customer impact.
• Champion engineering standards, documentation accuracy (AutoCAD, Confluence), and project accountability across systems.
• Own the development and governance of processes related to project intake, prioritization, and escalation.
• Serve as the key strategic contributor to technical planning, systems innovation, and operational excellence across TV Technology.

THE STATS
What we're looking for in our next teammate

• Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline — or equivalent experience designing and operating production-grade media systems at scale.
• 6+ years of progressive experience architecting and deploying hybrid broadcast and cloud-based media infrastructures, with proven expertise in both traditional on-prem systems (SDI, SD/HD/4K workflows, MCR, PCR) and modern IP/cloud workflows (AWS Elemental, MediaConnect, MediaLive, MediaPackage).
• Expert-level understanding of professional broadcast standards and time synchronization protocols including SMPTE ST 2110, AES67, ST 2059, IEEE 1588 PTP, and legacy SDI baseband systems — with demonstrated experience designing seamless transition architectures between legacy and IP environments.
• Advanced fluency in real-time media transport and adaptive streaming protocols, including SRT, RIST, RTP with SMPTE 2022-7, HLS, CMAF, DASH, WebRTC, WHIP/WHEP — with experience configuring latency-optimized, redundant delivery pipelines for live production.
• Strong working knowledge of video and mezzanine codecs, including H.264, H.265/HEVC, JPEG 2000, JPEG-XS, DNxHD, ProRes — and deep familiarity with container formats such as MXF (OP1a), MOV, and MPEG-TS.
• Ability to help design, document, and deploy REST API-first solutions for controlling, monitoring, and integrating broadcast and streaming systems, enabling interoperability and automation across internal and third-party services.
• Experience with timing-critical workflows involving timecode (VITC/LTC), frame-accurate switching, NTP, and synchronization across multi-region or distributed production environments.
• Skilled in infrastructure as code and media workflow automation, using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, Python, and CI/CD systems (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline).
• Comfortable documenting and managing complex signal paths using AutoCAD, signal flow charts, and production schematics — and maintaining structured documentation in Confluence and JIRA.
• Prior experience building secure, compliant systems in regulated or high-reliability environments, such as sports broadcasting, betting/gaming, finance, or healthcare.
• Excellent communicator and systems thinker — able to partner with engineering, postproduction, operations, and executive stakeholders to influence architecture and investment decisions.
• Bonus: Familiarity with SCTE-35/SCTE-104 ad signaling, OTT DRM, edge encoding workflows, and dynamic playout systems (e.g., Imagine, Grass Valley, Evertz, Amagi).

PLAYER BENEFITS
We treat our team right

We offer amazing benefits above and beyond the basics. We have an array of health plans to choose from (some as low as $0 per paycheck) that include programs for fertility and family planning, mental health support, and fitness benefits. We offer generous paid time off (PTO & sick leave), annual bonus and long-term incentive opportunities (based on performance), 401k with up to a 5% match, commuter benefits, pet insurance, and more - check out all our benefits here: FanDuel Total Rewards. *Benefits differ across location, role, and level.

FanDuel is an equal opportunities employer and we believe, as one of our principles states, “We are One Team!”. As such, we are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or another other characteristic protected by state, local or federal law. We believe FanDuel is strongest and best able to compete if all employees feel valued, respected, and included.

The applicable salary range for this position is $146,000 - $182,000 USD, which is dependent on a variety of factors including relevant experience, location, business needs and market demand. This role may offer the following benefits: medical, vision, and dental insurance; life insurance; disability insurance; a 401(k) matching program; among other employee benefits. This role may also be eligible for short-term or long-term incentive compensation, including, but not limited to, cash bonuses and stock program participation. This role includes paid personal time off and 14 paid company holidays. FanDuel offers paid sick time in accordance with all applicable state and federal laws.

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