Chief Technology Officer

Key responsibilities

As the Chief Technology Officer, you will lead the organisation's overall technology strategy and transformation agenda across broadcast technology, OTT and streaming, digital platforms, cloud infrastructure, enterprise architecture, data and AI, cybersecurity and technology governance. You will work closely with Content, Product and Commercial leadership to ensure technology drives customer experience, operational efficiency and commercial growth.

• Define and execute the long-term technology strategy and enterprise architecture, aligned with the organisation's business and commercial priorities.
• Modernise legacy broadcast and digital platforms, accelerating the move towards scalable, cloud-enabled and IP-based operations supporting a hybrid PayTV-OTT ecosystem.
• Lead broadcast and OTT engineering and operations, ensuring seamless content delivery and stable, high-quality streaming for live events, premium content and peak-load moments.
• Lead secure and scalable hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure, with appropriate resilience, disaster recovery and business continuity.
• Partner with Product, Content and Commercial teams to enhance customer-facing digital products and improve customer experience.
• Advance AdTech, data, analytics, AI and machine-learning capabilities to improve personalisation, measurement, advertising yield, insight and commercial outcomes.
• Drive digital transformation, automation and technology modernisation to simplify operations, improve customer experience and reduce cost.
• Strengthen cybersecurity, content protection, DRM and rights-management controls across multi-vendor and multi-cloud environments.
• Establish strong technology governance, data privacy, compliance and risk-management frameworks while aligning technology investment with business priorities.
• Rationalise systems, platforms, infrastructure and vendors to reduce complexity and deliver measurable cost optimisation.
• Lead enterprise-wide operating-model change, improving accountability and collaboration across Technology, Product, Content and Commercial.
• Build and lead a high-performing technology organisation while managing strategic partners, vendors, budgets and investment decisions through the transformation.

Role requirements

• Significant senior technology leadership experience within media, broadcasting, PayTV, OTT, streaming or a similarly complex consumer technology environment.
• A proven track record of modernising legacy infrastructure and migrating towards IP-based, cloud-enabled and scalable technology environments.
• Strong leadership experience across broadcast and OTT engineering, including high-concurrency live-streaming and complex content-delivery environments.
• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture, cloud infrastructure, digital product development and technology lifecycle management.
• Experience applying data, analytics, AI, machine learning and AdTech to improve customer experience, automation, personalisation, measurement and monetisation.
• Strong cybersecurity, content protection, data privacy, technology governance and regulatory compliance experience.
• A track record of delivering significant cost optimisation through automation, cloud migration, platform consolidation and vendor rationalisation while maintaining resilience.
• Proven experience leading large multidisciplinary technology teams and major organisational or operating-model transformation.
• A commercially minded and collaborative leadership style, with the ability to translate technology strategy into measurable business outcomes and partner effectively with senior stakeholders.
• Resilience and agility in steering technology strategy through market disruption, transformation and complex organisational change.