Data Team Lead

Data Team Lead | Trading | Amsterdam | Up to € 140K My client is a highly 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 vision, structure, and senior leadership to the table from day one. If you’ve built data teams, architected complex data foundations, and love turning chaos into scalable systems.Keep on reading!You will be responsible for:• Defining the high-level data architecture and long-term vision• 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• Building and scaling a dedicated data team (hiring, coaching, leading)• 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• Hands-on enough to guide engineers but senior enough to define the strategyYour background:• You have led data teams before, not your first rodeo• 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.)• Strong communicator, able to translate vision → plan → execution• You enjoy building, coaching, hiring and setting high standards• You thrive in ownership and autonomy — no handholding environmentLong 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.Please apply!Nielsv@doghouse-recruitment.nl