High-Performance Trading Telecom Lead

Autonomai Recruitment; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Autonomai Recruitment is seeking a Technical Project Manager – Telecommunications to deliver fibre, data centre interconnects, and carrier connectivity for a high-performance trading environment in Amsterdam.

You will lead cross-functional delivery across data centres, trading venues, offices, and cloud, coordinating engineers, carriers, and suppliers to meet stringent latency, security, and availability standards.

Qualifications

• Experience in telecommunications, network infrastructure, carrier services, connectivity engineering, or technical project management.
• A degree in telecommunications, electrical engineering, or computer science.
• Strong knowledge of data centre and telecoms infrastructure (fibre, WAN, LAN, IP networking).
• Experience delivering large-scale infrastructure programmes.
• Experience managing multiple technical workstreams, suppliers, risks, dependencies, and deadlines.
• Understanding of highly available, resilient, low-latency connectivity in performance-critical environments.
• Excellent communication across engineering, operations, procurement, suppliers, and leadership.
• Structured, pragmatic approach with bias for action.
• Ownership and judgement to progress when the path isn’t fully defined.
• Experience with international network deployments is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of critical telecommunications and network infrastructure programmes.
• Deliver fibre circuits, carrier connectivity, data centre interconnects, WAN, LAN, IP networking, optical transport, and related services.
• Drive projects from initial requirements and design through procurement, installation, testing, deployment, and operational handover.
• Coordinate engineers, infrastructure teams, carriers, data centre providers, vendors, and business stakeholders.
• Build clear delivery plans, manage dependencies, track milestones, and remove blockers.
• Own project risks, issues, budgets, change control, governance, and executive reporting.
• Hold suppliers accountable for technical delivery, service performance, and agreed timelines.
• Lead migrations, network upgrades, new site deployments, circuit turn-ups, and infrastructure decommissions.
• Define acceptance criteria, test plans, rollback procedures, monitoring requirements, and support documentation.
• Ensure every solution meets demanding standards for resilience, availability, performance, security, scalability, and latency.

Skills

Telecommunications experience

Project management

Network infrastructure

Carrier services

Connectivity engineering

Data centre connectivity

Vendor management

Stakeholder communication

Low latency networks

Structured, pragmatic approach

Education

Electrical Engineering degree

Computer Science degree

Telecommunications degree

Job description

Autonomai Recruitment is seeking a Technical Project Manager – Telecommunications to deliver fibre, data centre interconnects, and carrier connectivity for a high-performance trading environment in Amsterdam.

You will lead cross-functional delivery across data centres, trading venues, offices, and cloud, coordinating engineers, carriers, and suppliers to meet stringent latency, security, and availability standards.