Senior Data Engineer — Unified Data Platform & Governance

Optiver; Amsterdam; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus structure

Professional development

Meals & beverages

Gym membership

Chair massages

Social events

Relocation package & visa sponsorship

Job summary

Optiver is hiring a senior data architect to design and own scalable data products across Finance, People, Procurement, and Compliance. You will build a governed semantic layer, enable self-service analytics, and power AI-enabled queries using Databricks Genie.

You will lead end-to-end delivery, governance, and DataHub adoption while shaping engineering standards and CI/CD practices. You will work on a modern stack with Unity Catalog governance, dbt, PySpark, and Delta table design, partnering

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience designing and delivering production data solutions.
• Proven ownership of end-to-end data architectures.
• Expert SQL and data transformation using dbt and PySpark.

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

Skills

SQL

dbt

PySpark

Databricks

Data governance

End-to-end architecture

CI/CD

Delta table design

Tools

Unity Catalog

DataHub

Delta Lake

Job description

Optiver is hiring a senior data architect to design and own scalable data products across Finance, People, Procurement, and Compliance. You will build a governed semantic layer, enable self-service analytics, and power AI-enabled queries using Databricks Genie.

You will lead end-to-end delivery, governance, and DataHub adoption while shaping engineering standards and CI/CD practices. You will work on a modern stack with Unity Catalog governance, dbt, PySpark, and Delta table design, partnering