Enterprise Technology Engineering Lead

At Optiver, we believe that technology should empower people to do their best work. Our Global Enterprise Technology team is dedicated to creating a seamless, intuitive, and world-class technology experience—one that enables our people to thrive. By working closely with our business partners, we solve challenges, uncover opportunities, and continuously enhance how we operate.

As the Enterprise Technology Engineering Lead, you’ll play a key role in shaping and driving enterprise technology solutions that make a meaningful impact. You’ll partner closely with stakeholders, guiding strategy and execution across endpoint management, modern workplace technologies, and enterprise applications. Your leadership will foster an environment of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement, ensuring teams are supported and empowered to deliver their best work.

This role blends technical expertise with people leadership, focusing on team growth, process optimization, and the seamless performance of critical platforms like SCCM, Intune, M365, Atlassian, Zoom, and Slack.

WHAT YOU’L DO

• Roadmap Execution: Partner with stakeholders to define a clear roadmap and oversee its delivery, ensuring alignment with business goals and priorities
• Technical Leadership: Provide technical and operational guidance to the endpoint engineering, modern workplace, and enterprise applications teams
• Accountability and Delivery: Ensure high-quality execution of projects, meeting deadlines and maintaining performance across all managed platforms
• Service Optimization: Reduce BAU burdens by streamlining processes and leveraging automation to enable teams to focus on impactful project work
• Team Development: Mentor and develop junior team leads, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and technical excellence
• Incident Management: Lead escalations for complex incidents, ensuring timely resolution and long-term prevention strategies
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, engineers, and leadership to ensure seamless alignment between roadmap goals and technical delivery

WHO YOU ARE

• Experienced Leader: 8-10 years in IT operations, with 5+ years leading technical teams. Proven experience managing endpoints, SaaS platforms, and cloud infrastructure
• Results-Driven: Focused on delivering high-quality outcomes on time and driving continuous improvement
• Technical Mentor: Skilled in guiding teams through technical challenges and developing their leadership and delivery capabilities
• Collaborative Problem Solver: Strong interpersonal skills, adept at working with engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to ensure alignment and successful delivery
• Operational Optimizer: Experienced in improving processes to reduce operational overhead and enable teams to focus on impactful work

Technical Proficiency

• Endpoint Management: Advanced experience with Intune, SCCM, and VDI technologies
• SaaS Platforms: Proficient in managing M365, Atlassian Suite, Zoom, and Slack
• Automation: Strong scripting skills (e.g., PowerShell) to drive efficiency and consistency in infrastructure management
• Cloud & Virtual Infrastructure: Expertise in VMware, Microsoft virtualization technologies, and hybrid cloud environments
• ITSM & Incident Management: Familiarity with ITIL and service management practices, with a proven ability to resolve escalations effectively

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 GET

You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem solvers. Driven by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle some of the most complex problems in the financial markets.

In return for your expertise, you will be offered a competitive salary package as well as access to a range of Optiver perks, including:

• The chance to work alongside best-in-class professionals
• Competitive remuneration, including an attractive bonus structure and additional leave entitlements
• Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities
• Gym membership plus weekly in-house chair massages
• Daily breakfast, lunch and an in-house barista
• Regular social events including an annual company trip
• Guided relocation, a competitive relocation package and visa sponsorship where necessary.

HOW TO APPLY

Are you interested in furthering your career on one of the most dynamic and exciting trading floors in Europe?

Apply directly via the form below for the position of Enterprise Technology Engineering Lead. If you have any questions feel free to contact our Recruiter Tommy - tommysmith@optiver.com. 

Please note:

• We cannot accept applications via email for data protection reasons.
• We do not require any assistance from third-parties including agencies in the recruitment of this role

DIVERSITY STATEMENT

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion, and it is hardwired through every stage of our hiring process. We encourage applications from candidates from any and all backgrounds, and we welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process to ensure that you can best demonstrate your abilities.

Questions? Get in touch with the recruitment team at careers@optiver.com.au.