About the Role
You'll build the governed data foundation that replaces fragmented, siloed, and manually managed business functions on a modern stack, with architectural ownership and production delivery.
Responsibilities
- Architect and own delivery of shared data products across Finance, People, Procurement, and Compliance, from design decisions through to production
- Build and evolve the semantic layer that powers reporting, self-service analytics, conversational analytics, and Databricks Genie, writing the models, tests, and documentation that make it trustworthy
- Design and build scalable data pipelines, data models, and governed data products using Databricks, dbt, SQL, and PySpark
- Implement governance capabilities end-to-end, including Unity Catalog access controls, column-level security, data classification, lineage, and data quality standards
- Drive DataHub adoption by defining metadata standards, lineage definitions, and data ownership models that make discoverability a first-class engineering concern
- Translate complex and ambiguous requirements from senior stakeholders into production-grade data solutions, owning the problem from conversation to deployed model
- Set the engineering standard for the team through the quality of your code, architecture decisions, and pull request reviews
- Partner with the broader data team to continuously improve CI/CD, testing frameworks, observability, and data quality practices
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience designing and building production data solutions, with a track record of leading complex technical initiatives end-to-end.
- Track record of architectural ownership and designing end-to-end data solutions
- Expert-level SQL and data transformation skills, with strong hands-on experience in dbt, PySpark, or both.
- Design data products for scale, write tests without friction, and have clear opinions on where each tool's limits are
- Deep experience with Databricks, Lakehouse architectures, or comparable modern data technologies, including Delta table design, Unity Catalog governance, compute trade-offs, and downstream BI or AI workloads
- Experience implementing governance at scale, including access control, PII handling, column-level security, data lineage, and data quality management in production environments
- Experience building trusted business-facing data products within Finance, People/HR, Procurement, Operations, or similar domains.
- Understand business logic well enough to challenge unclear or incorrect requirements
Skills
- Databricks
- dbt
- SQL
- PySpark
- Unity Catalog
- DataHub
- Databricks Genie
- Lakehouse architectures
- Delta table design
- Column-level security
- Data classification
- Data lineage
- Data quality management
- CI/CD
- Testing frameworks
- Observability
Experience Level
- 8+ years of experience
Benefits
- Performance-based bonus structure
- Global profit pool
- Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities
- Daily breakfast, lunch and an in-house barista
- Gym membership plus weekly in-house chair massages
- Regular social events, including a company trip every two years
- Guided relocation, a competitive relocation package and visa sponsorship where necessary
About the Company
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.
- We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process.
