Technical Lead

Doghouse Recruitment; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 126,000 - 154,000; Full time

Job summary

Doghouse Recruitment is helping a fast-growing Amsterdam-based trading firm find a Tech Lead Data Architecture & Engineering to own data strategy and build high-performance pipelines. You will work closely with trading, research, backend and BI teams to define architecture and drive the data roadmap.

The role demands hands-on leadership in real-time, event-driven data and familiarity with Postgres and Kafka to deliver scalable, low-latency systems.

Qualifications

• Experience architecting enterprise-grade data foundations.
• Strong background in real-time and event-driven data design.
• Ability to own and drive data architecture decisions with minimal supervision.

Responsibilities

• Define the data architecture and governance framework.
• Bring structure, workflows, governance and technical hygiene to the data landscape.
• Design real-time and high-frequency data pipelines for reliability and low latency.
• Set the foundation for a future data platform and data warehouse.
• Collaborate daily with trading, research, backend and BI teams.
• Create clear, usable datasets for quant and trading teams.
• Shape the data roadmap in a fragmented landscape.

Skills

Data architecture

Real-time data

Event-driven design

High-frequency data

Ownership/autonomy

Tools

Postgres

Kafka

Job description

Tech Lead Data Architecture & Engineering | Trading | Amsterdam | Up to € 140K

My client is a ambitious trading firm with big plans. They are moving fast toward becoming a true scale-up but to get there, they need to raise the maturity of their entire tech landscape.

This means data is becoming absolutely critical. Real, high-frequency, event-driven, enterprise-grade data foundations. To make this transition happen, they are now looking for a Lead Data Architecture & Engineering Expert who has done this before and can bring structure, and senior tech leadership to the table from day one. If you’ve worked in an environment like this before, architected complex data foundations, and love turning chaos into scalable systems.

Keep on reading!

You will be responsible for:

• Defining the data architecture.
• Bringing structure, workflows, governance and technical hygiene
• Designing proper real-time and high-frequency data pipelines
• Setting the foundation for a future data platform / data warehouse
• Collaborating daily with trading, research, backend & BI teams
• Bringing clarity in a fully fragmented landscape and shaping the roadmap
• Creating clean, reliable, usable datasets for quant & trading teams

Your background:

• Strong in data architecture, workflows, technical direction
• Experience with real-time / high-frequency / event-driven data
• Postgres & Kafka knowledge is a big plus (or similar streaming tech)
• Experience with high-volume or low-latency environments (fintech, payments, trading, etc.)
• You thrive in ownership and autonomy — no handholding environment

Long story short: you live and breathe data, and you’re ready to shape the backbone of a fast-growing trading scale-up. If you want full ownership, real impact, and a mandate to build something from the ground up this is your moment.