Head of Engineering - Financial Data Experience

Amsterdam · 10+ years experience · Remote · Posted Oct 9, 2026

At a glance

As the Head of Engineering for Financial Data Experience at Adyen, you ensure global merchants, regulators, and Adyen Finance can trust their numbers by building fully explained financial data datasets and experiences.
This role bridges the gap between internal ledger complexity and a unified, customer-facing money movement experience focused on an automated, self-serve, trustworthy product.
You will own the customer-facing model of money movement, define how data is delivered across datasets, reports, files, and dashboards, and build a best-in-class engineering team.

Own the customer-facing model of money movement for merchants, regulators, and Adyen Finance, ensuring data reflects the merchant's entities and periods rather than mirroring internal systems.
Own how that data is delivered: datasets, reports, files and dashboards, on the same terms for every team that publishes through us.
Create an environment that fosters continuous innovation.
Build a best-in-class team; developing and hiring great people with the right skills to deliver.
Accountable for the execution of key projects, ensuring timely delivery, tracking progress, removing blockers, and assisting with planning and prioritization as needed.
Stay close enough to the technology to judge a design yourself.
Build, mentor, and manage a high-performing engineering organization, balancing robust scalability with the execution of complex, cross-stream technical projects.

10+ years in engineering, 5+ leading, including experience as a manager of managers.
Experience hiring and managing a sizeable engineering organisation (ideally 25-50 engineers), including managing managers, and setting an exemplary engineering culture.
Literate in financial data, including ledgers, cut-offs, corrections and restatement, FX, and fee attribution, where a number was an obligation rather than a metric.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills capable of translating complex technical concepts into clear, concise language for both tech and non-tech audiences, merchants, vendors, and internal stakeholders.
Comfortable streamlining the team's engineering operations, refining product requirements together with product and merchants, and encouraging effective collaboration.
Experience delivering through a platform you did not control and getting what you needed from it without a lever.