Senior Technical Operations Engineer

Optiver Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

We’re looking for a Senior Technical Analyst to join our Technology Risk and Enablement team. This team ensures that Optiver’s technology function operates efficiently and scales effectively. You will partner with our global CTOs to provide insight into how our technology is performing, and how it stays in control of its risks. The opportunity for impact is significant: we act as a central link between technology, trading, compliance, and risk teams. In the services we provide, such as hosting the firm’s incident retro process, you’ll work closely with senior leaders, gaining broad exposure across domains and connecting the dots between teams. While not explicitly a software development role, you will have opportunities to contribute to the team’s internal tools to make our processes more effective and to deliver custom solutions where needed, whether that’s generating metrics and dashboards, or improving workflows.

What You'll Do

Collaborate with trading, technology, and control teams to drive critical cross‑functional projects from initial discussions to completion.

Lead effective meetings with engineering leaders to review incidents, consider necessary improvements, and plan related efforts – challenging them on emerging themes, patterns, and risks.

Provide global CTOs with insight and suggestions that enable them to achieve operational excellence within the technology function.

Identify upcoming technology upgrades at exchanges we trade on and coordinate Optiver’s response to them.

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, 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.

Competitive relocation packages and visa sponsorship where necessary for expats.

Who You Are

You hold a degree in Computer Science (or a similar field).

You can write code to automate workflows and handle data effectively (extensive software engineering experience is not required).

You are a pragmatic thinker with strong communication skills.

You have a history of influencing and working well with individuals at all levels across high‑performing, talent‑dense organizations.

You bring solid project management experience and a hands‑on, proactive mindset.

You have a strong aptitude for understanding how complex technical systems work.

You’re genuinely interested in the financial industry and motivated to learn more.

Who We Are At Optiver, our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing force no matter the market conditions. With a focus on continuous improvement, we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets for everyone who participates. As one of the largest market‑making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe.

How To Apply Apply directly via the form below. If you have any questions feel free to contact our Recruitment team via our recruitment inquiry form.

Please note:

We do not require any assistance from third‑parties including agencies in the recruitment of this role.

We cannot accept applications via email.

Diversity Statement Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.

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