Global Trade Operations Supervisor & Incident Lead

Optiver; Singapore; On-site; SGD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance-based bonus

Training & mentorship

Daily breakfast and lunch

Weekly chair massages

Corporate health insurance

Regular social events

Job summary

Optiver Singapore is hiring a Trading Supervisor to act as first responder for incidents, ensuring issues are resolved and preventative actions implemented. You will oversee automated trading systems across multiple markets, assess intraday risks, and coordinate with risk managers, engineers, brokers, and exchanges in real time.

The role requires 5+ years in trading supervision or similar, strong organizational and communication skills, and experience with high-frequency strategies.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years’ experience in a Trade Supervision, Trading, Risk, Application Engineering, or similar role.
• Prior trading exposure across asset classes and strategies highly desirable.
• An understanding of exchange-specific rules and procedures.
• Extremely organized, detail-oriented, and able to work independently.
• Excellent communication, project management and time management skills.
• Solid experience with high-frequency automated trading strategies will be preferred.
• Experience with Python, Linux command line and the ability to extract and manipulate large data sets will be preferred.
• Full Singapore working rights essential.

Responsibilities

• Supervise and monitor our automated trading systems in various markets that we trade in.
• Assess live trading for any issues (e.g. risk, compliance, production issues) and quickly respond to unusual behaviours or market conditions.
• Working closely with risk managers and trading teams to alert key staff of any intraday trading issues and collaborating with Optiver's engineers, brokers, and exchanges to resolve problems in real time.
• Documenting procedures and logging production issues as they occur.

Skills

Python

Data analysis

Trading knowledge

Excellent communication

Project management

Tools

Linux command line

Job description

Optiver Singapore is hiring a Trading Supervisor to act as first responder for incidents, ensuring issues are resolved and preventative actions implemented. You will oversee automated trading systems across multiple markets, assess intraday risks, and coordinate with risk managers, engineers, brokers, and exchanges in real time.

The role requires 5+ years in trading supervision or similar, strong organizational and communication skills, and experience with high-frequency strategies.