Technical Delivery Director

This role is offered on an Italian employment contract. Candidates must be based in Italy as we are unable to support remote working from outside the country due to local employment and tax legislation.

Position

This role sits within Deltatre's Engineering & Technology function, reporting to the SVP of Engineering Delivery, at the interface between external and internal clients and the multi-disciplinary teams building and running the OTT streaming and connected consumer experiences for major international sports and entertainment brands.

Responsibilities

End-to-end delivery ownership

• Own the delivery of client programmes end to end - requirements, defining buildable scope, managing delivery forecasts, managing launch and release, and ongoing project run
• Report exact delivery status across all reporting squads and external dependencies
• Maintain high standards of technical delivery, including code contribution processes, Definition of Ready, and Definition of Done

Squad and team leadership

• Take ownership of 6 delivery squads (around 40-45 engineers) initially, with the 6 squad leads reporting directly to you, setting day-to-day direction and priorities and removing whatever is blocking them
• Manage team delivery capacity and key-person risk, forecasting any shortfalls and making the case for additional squad capacity from internal or external teams
• Maintain a high standard of engineering across squads - review output, mentor engineers, and lead by example

Governance and stakeholder management

• Own governance practices and collaboration spanning Delivery Directors and Project Managers assigned to client programmes, with effective liaison into Product Management
• Build and maintain technical relationships with clients
• Know when to elevate, and stay proactive in delivery problem-solving

Requirements

You have done this before - here's what we're looking for.

Required

• 10+ years' experience in software engineering, ideally including Java, React Native, or JavaScript/TypeScript - a mandatory technical foundation that lets you genuinely understand what your squads are building, even though this role is delivery-focused rather than hands-on coding day to day
• Delivery accountability for a portfolio of concurrent large-scale programmes, ideally in OTT/streaming, media technology, a product organisation, or a strong technical consultancy
• Demonstrable experience leading through other technical and delivery leaders, and developing them
• Solution architecture experience across a mix of digital platforms
• Senior client-facing credibility, able to manage fixed-date escalations and negotiate scope while maintaining trusted relationships
• Commitment to managing commercial consequences - negotiating and planning for margin, penalty exposure, fixed-price versus T&M, and supplier mix
• Track record of working alongside a technical-authority peer while keeping boundaries intact
• Agile delivery in practice, adapted to fixed-date commitments rather than argued with
• Documentation and decision discipline - auditable records of decisions and the reasoning behind them

Valued

• Multi-tenant platform or productised-services experience, working with a shared codebase
• Experience building a delivery function through significant scale-up, including hiring and onboarding at volume
• Distributed and offshore delivery experience across regions and time zones
• Product management experience
• Familiarity with multiple delivery methodologies, with the judgement to choose the right pattern for the job at hand
• Background in OTT, VOD, live broadcast, or media technology

Who Thrives Here

This role carries accountability at the portfolio level, not the project level - you're moving between a squad's blockers, a client escalation, and a margin conversation in the same day, and each needs your full attention and judgement. It suits someone who stays technically credible without staying purely hands-on, and who can hold a boundary with a technical-authority peer without it becoming a turf war.

People who do well here treat documentation and decision discipline as protection for the whole programme, not overhead, and they know the difference between a problem to solve quietly and one that needs to be escalated now. You'll need the client-facing weight to negotiate scope under pressure and the internal credibility to lead delivery leaders who don't report to you directly.

Process and what to expect

Salary starts from €30K at entry level rising to €90K for those with significant relevant experience. Where you land depends on your experience, technical background, and the stack you br