Enterprise Corporate Engineering Lead

The role

You will establish Corporate Engineering as a new capability within the Platform Engineering group. You will own the technology vision, architecture, and roadmap for corporate functions by building and leading a software engineering team.

What you will do

• Define the technology vision and architecture for corporate functions
• Set the engineering roadmap in partnership with business functions
• Bring an engineering view of cost, feasibility and reuse into business prioritization
• Build and lead a high-caliber software engineering team
• Contribute materially to the software engineering output of the Corporate Engineering team
• Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders in business operations and support functions
• Make deliberate build versus buy decisions
• Solve common problems once and reuse the solution
• Partner closely with the Enterprise, Data and AI platform teams

Required qualifications

• Experienced engineering leader who has built and grown strong software engineering teams
• Experienced leading complex transformation programs end to end
• Credible with senior business leaders
• Strong in enterprise architecture across integration, orchestration, data and identity
• Deeply knowledgeable about AI, automation, data and process transformation
• Technically credible and comfortable staying close to production systems, architectural decisions and difficult delivery problems
• Product-minded
• Commercially grounded
• Strong communicator
• Comfortable building something new

Nice to have

• Background in a technology company, a SaaS business serving finance, people or legal functions, or a large global enterprise
• Prior ownership of a corporate, enterprise, or business engineering function
• Hands-on exposure to platforms such as Workday, NetSuite, Databricks, Workato, and to AI and automation toolsets
• Experience building and operating agentic systems in production
• Experience in financial services or another environment with a low tolerance for operational error

Benefits

• Performance-based bonus structure from a global profit pool
• Opportunity to work alongside 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
• Fully paid first-class commuting expenses
• Breakfast, lunch and dinner
• World-class barista coffee
• In-house physio and chair massages
• Organized sports and leisure activities
• Friday afternoon drinks
• Access to conferences and tech events

About the company

Optiver is a market making institution that aims to improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, and increasing transparency. They are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe.