Technical Delivery Director - Vesper Build and Run

Deltatre; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Deltatre is seeking a Technical Delivery Director for the Vesper Build and Run portfolio in the United Kingdom. The role focuses on end-to-end delivery leadership across multiple squads, maintaining architectural alignment and client relationships, while expanding the delivery function to scale with the business.

This is a delivery-focused leadership role with accountability for programme outcomes. You will coordinate 6 squads and interact with clients and internal stakeholders, while remaining

Qualifications

• Delivery accountability for a portfolio of concurrent large-scale programmes
• Experience leading through other technical and delivery leaders
• Solution architecture across a mix of digital platforms
• Senior client-facing credibility and ability to manage fixed-date escalations
• Commitment to commercial decisions - margin, penalty exposure, fixed-price vs T&M

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of client programmes from requirements to launch and run
• Report delivery status across squads and dependencies
• Maintain high standards of technical delivery and Definition of Ready/Done
• Lead 6 delivery squads initially (40–45 engineers)
• Forecast capacity and advocate for additional squad capacity
• Mentor engineers and maintain engineering quality
• Build governance with Delivery Directors and Project Managers and collaborate with Product Management

Skills

Delivery leadership

Programme delivery

Solution architecture

Client-facing credibility

Agile delivery

Commercial & margin management

Escalation management

Cross-functional leadership

Job description

Technical Delivery Director - Vesper Build and Run

United Kingdom

Position

This role is offered on a UK employment contract. Candidates must be based in the UK 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.

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.

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 escape, and stay proactive in delivery problem-solving

Requirements

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

Required

• 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

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

• Introductory conversation: a step for us to get to know each other better, and for us to answer all questions you might have around Deltatre.
• 1-hour Technical round of Interview: we will deep dive on your experience and explore the technical and architectural decisions you have made in your past work.
• 1-hour Competency Based Interview: we will ask you situational questions around how you deal with real-life scenarios at work. Easier doing it, more than explaining it.

If any of these formats would be difficult for you, tell us - we adjust regularly and can usually accommodate.

Accessibility and accommodation questions are welcome at any stage. Tell us what would work for you.