Technical Director - OTT Delivery

This role sits within Deltatre's Engineering & Technology function, at the interface between clients-both external (broadcasters, rights holders, OTT operators) and internal (product, delivery, commercial)-and the multi disciplinary teams building the platforms that power OTT streaming, VOD, digital media, and connected consumer experiences for major international sports and entertainment brands. Technical Directors are the point of technical accountability across the full lifecycle of a project, from architecture and estimation through delivery and post launch iteration.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience delivering large scale projects or products over multi month cycles in a technical leadership role-ideally in OTT streaming, digital agency, or a product based organisation
• Deep expertise in at least one core mobile stack-Android (Java/Kotlin, RxJava, Dagger, Gradle) or iOS (Swift, Alamofire, Kingfisher, In App Purchase)
• Solution architecture experience for digital media platforms, with a working understanding of the trade offs across the delivery stack
• Requirements gathering, refinement, and estimation for complex multi stream projects
• Stakeholder management experience-external (clients, partners) and internal (product, delivery, commercial)
• Demonstrated track record of upskilling teams through code review, mentoring, and technical guidance by example
• Hands on experience setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Working experience of Agile delivery in practice-not only in principle
• Fluent written and spoken English
• Experience leading projects across multiple regions and time zones
• Familiarity with performance optimisation techniques and tooling for high scale consumer platforms
• Comfort with rapid prototyping as a means of validating architectural or interaction decisions
• Exposure to multiple software delivery process styles and project management methodologies
• Background in OTT, VOD, live broadcast, or media technology

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.

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