Senior Engineering Manager - Data Services

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

Senior Engineering Manager - Data Services

Italy

Position

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 leads the team that runs Deltatre's data services: large-scale data processing, onboarding and offboarding of tenant data, and the content recommendations behind our customers' products.

As Senior Engineering Manager, Data Services, you'll set direction and review designs rather than write code day to day. This is a technical leadership role: you'll lead a distributed team, and be the senior technical escalation point for customers on how their data is handled.

Delivery and team leadership

• 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

Data platform and recommendations

• 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

Tenant data and governance

• Own a repeatable, auditable onboarding and offboarding process for tenant data, including verified deletion when a tenant leaves
• Work with the Cyber Security team on controlled, audited access to tenant data, including cross-region access
• Ensure compliance with GDPR and other privacy regulations

Product and customer partnership

• Partner with Product on the roadmap
• Act as the technical escalation point for customers, working with account managers and solutions engineers
  

Requirements

This is the experience that will help you hit the ground running.

Required

• 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

Who Thrives Here

This role sits where engineering depth meets customer trust. Customers want to know exactly how their data is handled, and you're the person who can answer in plain terms and back it with an audit trail. It suits someone who stays technical enough to challenge a design or spot a cost or reliability problem without writing the code, and who leads a team spread across three regions, mixing permanent staff and contractors, without everyone being online at the same time.

People who do well here make working agreements explicit, so a team across time zones delivers predictably in writing rather than only in meetings. They treat privacy, access control, and verified deletion as engineering requirements rather than checkboxes, and they explain a technical decision to a customer or senior stakeholder in terms they can act on.

Process and what to expect

Salary starts from €30,000 at entry level rising to €90,000 for those with significant relevant experience. Where you land depends on the experience and expertise you bring. If your expectations sit outside the range, tell us anyway - we're happy to have an open conversation. Internal progression is assessed through a structured process combining a technical assessment and a competency-based interview. The role falls under CCNL Commercio | D.Lgs. 96/2026.

Assessment stages

• 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 collect examples of the responsibilities you've been dealing with in your past experience. A chance to deep dive on the role and for you to ask questions.
• 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.