Lead Real-Time Data Architect - Amsterdam Trading

Doghouse Recruitment; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 84,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Doghouse Recruitment is seeking a Tech Lead Data Architecture & Engineering for a fast-growing trading firm in Amsterdam. You will own the data architecture and drive end-to-end, real-time, high-frequency data pipelines to support trading and research teams.

You will shape the data foundation, set governance and technical hygiene, and collaborate daily with trading, backend and BI colleagues. This is a hands-on leadership role with full ownership from day one.

Qualifications

• Strong in data architecture, workflows and technical direction.
• Experience with real-time / high-frequency / event-driven data.
• Postgres or similar DB knowledge is a big plus; Kafka or streaming tech is beneficial.
• Experience with high-volume or low-latency environments (fintech, trading, etc.).
• You thrive in ownership and autonomy — a hands-on leadership style.

Responsibilities

• Define the data architecture and set the data strategy.
• Bring structure, workflows, governance and technical hygiene to the stack.
• Design real-time and high-frequency data pipelines.
• Lay the foundation for a future data platform / data warehouse.
• Collaborate daily with trading, research, backend and BI teams.
• Provide clarity in a fragmented landscape and help shape the roadmap.
• Create clean, reliable datasets for quant & trading teams.

Skills

Data architecture

Real-time data

Event-driven data

Technical leadership

Postgres

Kafka

Tools

Postgres

Kafka

Job description

Doghouse Recruitment is seeking a Tech Lead Data Architecture & Engineering for a fast-growing trading firm in Amsterdam. You will own the data architecture and drive end-to-end, real-time, high-frequency data pipelines to support trading and research teams.

You will shape the data foundation, set governance and technical hygiene, and collaborate daily with trading, backend and BI colleagues. This is a hands-on leadership role with full ownership from day one.