Enterprise Corporate Engineering Lead
Optiver is a global technology- and research-driven proprietary trading firm and market maker providing liquidity across financial markets, including through an active 24/7 Digital Assets desk.
About Optiver
Founded in Amsterdam in 1986, Optiver uses its own capital, quantitative research and proprietary technology to continuously quote, price and trade financial instruments across global markets. Its activities include listed derivatives, cash equities, ETFs, bonds, foreign currencies and digital assets; its Digital Assets desk operates crypto options market-making strategies across major venues with follow-the-sun coverage.
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Candidate Availability
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About the Role
You will establish Corporate Engineering, define its technology vision and architecture, and set its roadmap with corporate functions. You will build and lead an engineering team, contribute to software delivery, make build-versus-buy decisions, deliver reusable solutions, and partner with enterprise, data, and AI platform teams.
Requirements
- Engineering leadership experience
- Experience leading complex transformation programs end to end
- Experience delivering technology and change to executive stakeholders
- Enterprise architecture expertise across integration, orchestration, data, and identity
- Knowledge of AI, automation, data, and process transformation
- Technical credibility with production systems and architectural decisions
- Experience connecting technology decisions to cost, risk, and opportunity
- Strong communication skills
Responsibilities
- Define the technology vision and architecture for corporate functions
- Set the engineering roadmap with corporate functions
- Build and lead a software engineering team
- Contribute to the Corporate Engineering team's software output
- Build relationships with senior business stakeholders
- Make build-versus-buy decisions
- Create reusable knowledge, agent, integration, and automation solutions
- Partner with Enterprise, Data, and AI platform teams
Benefits
- Performance-based bonus structure
- 25 paid vacation days in the first year, increasing to 30 days from the second year
- Training opportunities
- Health-insurance discounts
- Fully paid first-class commuting expenses
- Breakfast, lunch, dinner, and barista coffee
- In-house physio and chair massages
- Sports and leisure activities
- Friday afternoon drinks
- Access to conferences and tech events