Enterprise Corporate Engineering Lead

About the Role

Responsibilities

• Define the technology vision and architecture for our corporate functions, and own the trade-offs across scalability, governance, security, cost and architectural consistency that span them and connect them to the wider Platform Engineering ecosystem
• Set the engineering roadmap in partnership with the functions, translating the business priorities they own into a technical plan you own
• Bring an engineering view of cost, feasibility and reuse into business prioritization, so each function can weigh what an outcome is worth against what it takes to build and run
• Build and lead a high-caliber software engineering team, including hiring, performance, career development and delivery, based primarily in Amsterdam with distributed members in the US and APAC
• Contribute materially to the software engineering output of the Corporate Engineering team
• Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders in our business operations and support functions (e.g. finance, people, legal, and compliance)
• Make deliberate build versus buy decisions, with real engineering capacity behind the build option and a clear view of where a vendor platform is the right answer
• Solve common problems once and reuse the solution, from knowledge bases and agent harnesses to integration and automation patterns shared across every corporate function
• Partner closely with the Enterprise, Data and AI platform teams so that Corporate Engineering builds on existing Optiver building blocks instead of recreating them
• Establish Corporate Engineering as a new capability inside Optiver's Platform Engineering group and become the single point of accountability for our corporate technology stack

Requirements

• An experienced engineering leader who has built and grown strong software engineering teams, with a track record of hiring well and setting a high technical bar
• Experienced leading complex transformation programs end to end, from problem definition through architecture, delivery and measurable business outcome
• Credible with senior business leaders, with direct experience delivering technology and change to executive stakeholders in functions such as finance, people, legal or compliance
• Strong in enterprise architecture across integration, orchestration, data and identity, with the judgement to know when to standardize and when a purposeful difference is justified
• Deeply knowledgeable about AI, automation, data and process transformation, and specifically on what these mean in a corporate function context rather than in the abstract
• Technically credible and comfortable staying close to production systems, architectural decisions and difficult delivery problems
• Product-minded, able to distinguish the problem worth solving from the request that was made, and willing to say no when merited
• Commercially grounded, able to connect technology decisions to cost, risk, opportunity and the time of the people the work is meant to free up
• A strong communicator who can make complex technical matters clear to audiences with very different levels of technical depth
• Comfortable building something new, including the ambiguity, the stakeholder management and the patience that a first year of a new team requires
• Likely someone who has spent a significant part of your career close to complex systems rather than moving entirely away from technology as your leadership responsibilities grew
• Background in a technology company, a SaaS business serving finance, people or legal functions, or a large global enterprise with a mature internally facing engineering organization
• Prior ownership of a corporate, enterprise, or business engineering function
• Experience building and operating agentic systems in production, including the knowledge, evaluation and governance foundations underneath them
• Experience in financial services or another environment with a low tolerance for operational error

What You'll Get

• A performance-based bonus structure, enabling all of our employees to benefit from our global profit pool
• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 50 different countries
• 25 paid vacation days in your first year, increasing to 30 from your second year onwards
• Training opportunities, discounts on health insurance, and fully paid first-class commuting expenses
• Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and dinner, world-class barista coffee, in-house physio and chair massages, organized sports and leisure activities, and Friday afternoon drinks
• Training and continuous learning opportunities, including access to conferences and tech events