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.

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.

As Technical Delivery Director, you hold delivery accountability for a portfolio of programmes - directing delivery leadership while staying personally credible in the architecture conversation, and personally present when a client escalation matters. You own end-to-end delivery against customer needs, while ensuring engineering squads' contribution to the core product meets Deltatre's standards for quality. This is a delivery-focused leadership role, not a hands-on coding one: you'll be judged on delivery outcomes and squad health, coordinating the team rather than writing the code yourself. Alongside other technical principals, you lead architectural decisions within the agreed architecture, drive requirements gathering and estimation, and combine your engineering background with the leadership and mentoring that scale a team's standards over time.

You'll take initial ownership of 6 delivery squads (around 40-45 engineers), with the 6 squad leads reporting directly to you. This is an expansion-oriented role: as the team and business grow, the remit may extend further, though nothing beyond the current scope is confirmed at this stage.

• 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

• 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

• 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 escape, and stay proactive in delivery problem-solving

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

• 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
• 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
• 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

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 th