Software Team Lead (Data)

Who we are Optiver is a global market maker founded in Amsterdam, with offices in London, Chicago, Austin, New York, Sydney, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei and Mumbai. Established in 1986, today we are a leading liquidity provider, with close to 2,000 employees in offices around the world, united in our commitment to improve the market through competitive pricing, execution and risk management. By providing liquidity on multiple exchanges across the world in various financial instruments we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets. We provide liquidity to financial markets using our own capital, at our own risk, trading a wide range of products: listed derivatives, cash equities, ETFs, bonds and foreign currencies. Optiver’s Sydney office is one of the primary players within Asian markets, trading a range of products. Established in 1996, we're an active participant on the Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Japan exchanges, and act as Optiver’s APAC head office. What you’ll do We are looking for an experienced software engineer and team leader to lead our APAC Data Engineering Platform team. The team is responsible for developing Optiver’s next-generation data platform for research and real-time trading, covering orchestration, storage, access and governance of data at scale. This team delivers robust, consistent solutions for a range of stakeholders across the business including engineers, researchers and traders. Our Data Engineers develop solutions using a mix of third-party and in-house technologies, owning their changes end-to-end including understanding the business problem, design, implementation, testing, deployment and monitoring. As a leader you will be responsible for working with stakeholders across the company to define the team's strategy and roadmap, and you will execute that vision with your team. Your leadership will directly enable a faster, simpler, and more scalable innovation cycle for Optiver globally. You will also be responsible for building the team and growing engineers to reach their full potential. This is a hybrid leadership and engineering role with meaningful hands-on time across requirements, architecture, and code. Other responsibilities include: • Build and lead a high performance data engineering team, including managing performance, career development and delivery. • Own and deliver the vision, strategy and roadmap for Optiver’s data platform. • Architect platform components (orchestration, storage/table formats, metadata/governance, streaming) that scale across APAC and integrate globally. • Partner with stakeholders (research, trading, developers, SRE, security) to prioritise and achieve cross-team changes. • S