Director of Engineering And Operations

Vacancy: Director of Trading Systems & Operations

Trading | Hybrid: Amsterdam | Salary up to € 140K base + sign. bonus

My client is a well-established market maker in options and derivatives, with technology teams both nationally and internationally. Five previously separate capability areas are being brought under a single owner, reporting into the CTO.

You'll lead three delivery lines and oversee two functions: Infrastructure Platform, Performance, and a brand-new Low Latency Engineering function with a lead reporting directly to you, plus oversight of Workplace Technology and an outsourced Security Operations provider. Multiple leads are already in seat across these teams, you'll set direction, hold cross-team standards, and back their decisions.

You'll be responsible for:

• Full accountability for trading platform availability across EU and US hours, with one consistent operating model
• Building a brand-new Low Latency Engineering function, with a lead reporting directly to you
• An infrastructure estate carrying the same availability bar as the trading platform itself
• Oversight of an outsourced Security Operations provider
• A vendor and budget portfolio, including the core trading platform vendor
• Leading multiple existing leads already in seat across the estate

We are looking for someone with experience in:

• Owning uptime and speed in a live trading environment, more than once
• Managing multiple technical teams or domains simultaneously, ideally across more than one site
• Having built or led a low latency engineering function previously
• Having designed an on-call and incident model from scratch
• Steering an outsourced security operations provider at a regulated firm
• Holding technical authority in specialisms you don't personally practice

So, have you already built and led multiple technical teams in a live trading environment? Do you want to take that experience and own the full technology estate behind a fast-growing market maker, across multiple continents? Do you have it in you to bring five capability areas under one clear direction from day one? Please apply!

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