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The role combines strong software engineering leadership with a deep understanding of data-intensive products, enabling analytics, benchmarking, reporting and reusable data services across multiple business domains.\nThe person will actively contribute to implementation while setting technical direction, engineering standards and delivery practices. A key expectation is the adoption of modern AI-assisted software development practices, including specification-driven approaches such as OpenSpec or equivalent methodologies, to improve quality, productivity, maintainability and clarity of delivery.\nKey Responsibilities\nLead the design, development and technical evolution of data-centric applications and platform services.\nDefine and maintain engineering standards, integration patterns, APIs and reusable technical capabilities.\nDesign and implement ingestion, processing, storage, serving, monitoring and integration components supporting analytics and reporting use cases.\nTranslate business and product needs into scalable, maintainable and secure technical solutions.\nContribute to the definition of data models, semantic layers and shared services supporting benchmarks, dashboards and data products.\nLeverage AI-assisted development practices to improve software quality, productivity, maintainability and engineering flow.\nContribute to adoption of specification-driven engineering, including OpenSpec or equivalent methodologies, as part of the software delivery lifecycle.\nEvaluate and incorporate emerging technologies, including AI-enabled capabilities, where they create measurable business value.\nEnsure scalability, reliability, performance, security, observability and cost efficiency of implemented solutions.\nMentor developers and contribute to a culture of engineering excellence, continuous learning and innovation.\nRequired Qualifications\nStrong experience in software engineering, product development or platform engineering.\nSolid backend development experience, ideally in .NET-based environments.\nExperience designing and developing data-intensive applications, APIs, integrations or platform services.\nGood understanding of data ingestion, transformation, storage, serving and analytical consumption patterns.\nExperience using AI-assisted software development tools as part of the software delivery lifecycle.\nFamiliarity with specification-driven engineering approaches such as OpenSpec or equivalent methodologies.\nGenuine interest in AI, software engineering innovation and cutting-edge technology.\nAbility to continuously evolve engineering practices through experimentation, automation and adoption of new tools and paradigms.\nStrong communication skills and ability to collaborate with Product, Engineering, Analytics and Business stakeholders.\nAdditional Valuable Experience\nExperience with Microsoft Azure and cloud-native architectures.\nExperience with Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Synapse, Power BI or equivalent Data & Analytics technologies.\nKnowledge of DataOps, observability, data governance, monitoring and cost optimization practices.\nExperience with large-scale data processing, benchmarking services or enterprise data products.\nExperience working in Agile, product-oriented and cross-functional environments.\nWhat We Offer\nWe operate in a rapidly growing multinational environment and provide our teams with:\nPeople First: care and attention to the work environment, to people, and to their individual and professional growth within the Technology organization.\nContinuous Learning:\nAccess to top-tier technological training platforms\n\nAccess to high-quality learning paths through the internal #GROW program\n\nKnowledge-sharing communities\n\nCustomized development paths\n\nInternational and Cross-functional Projects: opportunities to participate in international and cross-functional projects, ensuring the exchange of knowledge and ideas.\nWorking Methodology: an operational approach based on a collaborative, informal work environment that is open to the exchange of ideas.\nBenefits\nHybrid working model\n\nFlexible start and end times to support work-life balance\n\nMeal vouchers worth €8\n\nOnline well-being programs\n\nWelfare platform available to all employees\n\nLocation: Milan and smart working\nOur Interview Practices\nTo maintain a fair and genuine hiring process, we kindly ask that all candidates participate in interviews without the assistance of AI tools or external prompts. Our interview process is designed to assess your individual skills, experiences, and communication style. We value authenticity and want to ensure we’re getting to know you-not a digital assistant. To help maintain this integrity, we ask to remove virtual backgrounds and include in-person interviews in our hiring process. 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