Experience: 8 - 12+ years total experience, including 4 - 6+ years in blockchain / DLT and 2+ years in technical or team leadership roles

Domain: Capital Markets / Regulated Financial Services

Role Overview:

We are looking for a Blockchain Lead / Technical Lead to own the end-to-end architecture, design, and delivery of blockchain solutions across permissioned and public networks within capital markets environments.

This role combines deep technical expertise, solution architecture, governance, and hands-on leadership in enterprise-scale, regulated financial infrastructures such as settlement, custody, clearing, and post-trade platforms.

Key Responsibilities:

Architecture & Technical Leadership:

- Lead the architecture and design of blockchain-based solutions for capital markets use cases (e.g. settlement, asset servicing, reconciliation, tokenised assets).

- Define and enforce smart contract standards, patterns, and best practices suitable for regulated financial environments.

- Design privacy, permissioning, and governance models aligned with capital markets regulatory, audit, and operational requirements.

- Own on-chain vs off-chain data strategies, interoperability approaches, and enterprise integration patterns.

- Guide scalability, performance, security, resilience, and upgradeability strategies for high-volume, high-availability systems.

- Review and approve smart contract models, APIs, event-driven integrations, and overall system designs.

Delivery & Team Leadership:

- Lead and mentor a team of blockchain engineers delivering capital markets platforms.

- Plan and oversee sprint execution, milestones, and technical deliverables in multi-vendor, regulated environments.

- Conduct design and code reviews to ensure quality, security, compliance, and operational readiness.

- Support production readiness, incident resolution, platform upgrades, and long-term evolution.

Security & Governance:

- Drive smart contract security, threat modelling, and technical risk mitigation.

- Establish upgrade governance, access control, identity, and key management practices appropriate for market infrastructures.

- Ensure platforms comply with organizational standards, regulatory requirements, and audit controls common to capital markets.

Stakeholder & Client Engagement:

- Work closely with business, product, legal, compliance, and risk stakeholders.

- Translate capital markets business requirements into technical architectures and delivery roadmaps.

- Contribute to solution walkthroughs, client discussions, RFP responses, and technical proposals.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

Technical:

- Deep understanding of blockchain architecture, distributed systems, and governance models.

- Proven experience designing and delivering production-grade blockchain platforms.

- Strong expertise in smart contract design, lifecycle management, and security.

- Experience with tokenisation models, digital securities, enterprise assets, or DLT-based workflows.

- Proficiency in Java / Scala ecosystem and at least one smart contract or scripting language.

- Strong experience with cloud-native architectures, CI/CD, and DevOps practices.

- Solid grasp of cryptography, identity, key management, access control, and consensus mechanisms.

Capital Markets:

- Strong experience in Capital Markets or Financial Market Infrastructure, such as: Securities settlement, custody, clearing, or asset servicing; Post-trade processing and STP workflows; High-volume, time-critical transaction processing.

- Understanding of regulatory, operational, and audit requirements in regulated financial institutions.

Nice to Have:

- Experience with specific DLT platforms such as Canton Network (DAML) or Hyperledger Besu.

- Experience across both permissioned and public blockchains (e.g. Ethereum, Layer 2s).

- Exposure to interoperability or cross-network architectures.

- Background in capital markets, payments, CBDCs, or regulated financial infrastructure.

- Prior experience as a Solution Architect or Technical Manager.

- Cloud or blockchain-related certifications.

- Contributions to open-source blockchain or security initiatives.