Senior Data Services Engineering Leader | AWS, Java, GDPR

Deltatre S.p.A.; Italia; On-site; EUR 30,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Deltatre S.p.A. in Italy is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager, Data Services to lead a distributed team responsible for data platforms, onboarding/offboarding tenant data, and content recommendation workflows.

The role focuses on technical leadership, design reviews, and customer-facing escalation rather than coding. You will shape the data estate across Java/JVM and AWS (S3, EMR, Kinesis), own SLOs and incident response, ensure GDPR compliance, and partner with Product to align roadmaps with

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software or data engineering.
• 4-5 years leading engineering teams.
• Track record leading distributed teams across time zones, including contractors or a delivery partner.
• Deep Java/JVM experience, enough to review designs and challenge approaches.
• Deep AWS data services experience, enough to spot cost or reliability problems.
• Practical experience with data privacy and access control.
• Practical experience with regulatory compliance, including GDPR and other privacy regulations.
• Confidence explaining technical decisions to customers and senior stakeholders.
• Experience with recommendation systems.
• Experience with multi-tenant SaaS data platforms.
• Background in media, streaming, or sports technology.

Responsibilities

• Lead a mixed team of permanent analysts and contract engineers across three regions to predictable, high-quality delivery.
• Build strong asynchronous working practices across the distributed team.
• Set technical direction and run design review for the Java/AWS estate (S3, EMR, Kinesis).
• Own SLOs for data freshness and pipeline reliability.
• Own incident response and cloud cost.
• Own the pipelines and services behind content recommendations, and how their quality is measured.
• Own a repeatable onboarding/offboarding process for tenant data, including verified deletion when a tenant leaves.
• Work with Cyber Security on cross-region access and GDPR compliance.
• Partner with Product on the roadmap and act as the technical escalation point for customers.

Skills

10+ years in software or data

4-5 years leading engineering teams

Distributed teams across time zones

Java/JVM expertise

AWS data services

Data privacy and access control

Regulatory compliance (GDPR)

Communicating with customers/senior st

Recommendation systems

Multi-tenant SaaS data platforms

Media, streaming, or sports tech

Job description

Deltatre S.p.A. in Italy is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager, Data Services to lead a distributed team responsible for data platforms, onboarding/offboarding tenant data, and content recommendation workflows.

The role focuses on technical leadership, design reviews, and customer-facing escalation rather than coding. You will shape the data estate across Java/JVM and AWS (S3, EMR, Kinesis), own SLOs and incident response, ensure GDPR compliance, and partner with Product to align roadmaps with