Our Client, a global fintech company that provides quantitative data and analytics to hedge funds and institutional investors, is looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer to oversee their European Technology team. In this role, you will act as a hands-on leader and strategic collaborator, driving the next phase of platform evolution. There is a strong element of greenfield engineering, as the business scales and modernises its infrastructure to support increasingly sophisticated quantitative workflows.
This is a high-ownership, high-impact position with exposure across the full technology stack, working closely with stakeholders across engineering, product, and the business. Proven technical leadership experience, and a track record of designing and operating scalable distributed systems; comfortable working across the full technology stack, with strong knowledge of CI/CD, containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes), infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform), and excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and scale the EMEA technology team, fostering a high-performance engineering culture
- Take ownership of platform architecture, evolving the current infrastructure to support scalability, reliability, and performance
- Drive greenfield initiatives, building new systems and capabilities from the ground up
- Champion DevOps best practices, including CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and automation
- Work cross-functionally with product, data, and business teams to deliver impactful solutions
- Oversee cloud infrastructure (AWS), ensuring security, cost efficiency, and resilience
- Implement robust monitoring, observability, and incident management frameworks
- Contribute hands-on where needed across the stack (backend, infrastructure, data pipelines)
Requirements
- 5+ years' experience working with financial or quantitative datasets or Data Vendor Backgrounds
- Proven experience in a DevOps / platform engineering environment, ideally within financial services or fintech
- Strong expertise in AWS and cloud-native architecture
- Demonstrated experience in a technical leadership or team lead capacity
- Experience designing and operating scalable, distributed systems
- Comfortable working across the full technology stack (infrastructure through to application layer)
- Strong understanding of CI/CD, containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes), and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or similar)
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
