Global Observability Team Lead

We are looking for a Head of Observability Platform to lead observability as a business-critical platform capability across our globally distributed trading environment.

Requirements

• Proven experience leading engineering, SRE, platform, infrastructure, or observability teams in a complex technical environment.
• Experience owning or shaping a platform capability, including strategy, roadmap, architecture, operating model, adoption, governance, and measurable outcomes.
• Deep understanding of modern observability practices across logs, metrics, traces, events, alerting, dashboards, telemetry pipelines, diagnostics, instrumentation quality, and service health.
• Experience designing or leading large-scale observability platforms, including ingest pipelines, storage backends, query systems, retention models, visualization, alerting, resilience, and scale-related trade-offs.
• Strong technical judgement, people leadership, and delivery discipline.
• Ability to influence without direct control across engineering teams.
• A pragmatic approach to platform adoption, balancing global standardisation with regional autonomy, local production needs, and existing systems.

Benefits

• Performance-based bonus structure
• Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities
• Daily breakfast, lunch and an in-house barista
• Gym membership plus weekly in-house chair massages
• Regular social events, including a company trip every two years
• Guided relocation, a competitive relocation package and visa sponsorship where necessary