Chief Architect – Digital Assets & DLT Platforms
This is a rare opportunity to define the architecture behind a major institutional digital asset platform operating at the forefront of financial market innovation.
The mandate has already been secured. The initiative is funded, strategically important, and moving into real-world delivery. The platform will support the issuance and transfer of digital securities within a highly regulated financial market environment.
We are seeking a Chief Architect to provide technical leadership across architecture, engineering, and delivery, helping shape the future of digital assets, tokenisation, and distributed ledger technology within institutional finance.
The Role
This is a hands‑on architecture leadership position for someone who still enjoys going deep technically.
While stakeholder engagement is important, success will ultimately be determined by architectural judgement, technical credibility, and the ability to make the right technology decisions in a complex and evolving landscape.
You will be responsible for defining and challenging architecture decisions, evaluating technology choices, and ensuring that complex distributed systems are designed for production‑scale operation.
Working closely with engineering teams, business leaders, and senior stakeholders, you will establish the technical foundations for a platform that must balance innovation with resilience, scalability, security, interoperability, and regulatory requirements.
Key responsibilities include:
- Defining the target‑state architecture for a new digital asset platform
- Evaluating DLT, blockchain, and distributed systems technologies
- Designing solutions across tokenisation, digital securities, settlement, custody, and interoperability
- Determining appropriate on‑chain, off‑chain, and hybrid architecture models
- Establishing architecture principles around resilience, scalability, security, compliance, and operational readiness
- Providing technical leadership and challenge across engineering and architecture teams
- Acting as a senior technical authority for architecture decisions and technology direction
- Explaining complex technical concepts clearly to executive stakeholders and non‑technical audiences
- Supporting the transition from innovation and concept work into production‑grade delivery
What We’re Looking For
You will most likely have built your career within enterprise architecture, distributed systems, financial market infrastructure, payments, capital markets, or digital assets.
You may have worked on tokenisation initiatives, digital securities platforms, custody solutions, wholesale payments, settlement infrastructure, CBDCs, or other forms of institutional digital asset technology. More important than any particular technology is the ability to make sound architectural decisions in complex, highly regulated environments.
The successful candidate will demonstrate:
- Significant experience designing and architecting enterprise‑scale platforms
- Strong understanding of distributed systems and modern architecture patterns
- Practical experience with digital assets, tokenisation, DLT, blockchain, or related technologies
- A track record of taking complex platforms from design through to production
- Strong architectural judgement across resilience, scalability, security, interoperability, and operational risk
- Experience operating within regulated financial services or similarly complex environments
- The ability to challenge technology decisions from first principles rather than vendor narratives
- Credibility with engineers, architects, and senior business stakeholders alike
- The ability to explain highly complex technical concepts simply and clearly
Why This Opportunity?
Few architecture roles offer the chance to influence the future design of financial market infrastructure.
This position combines deep technical challenge with genuine industry impact. The successful individual will help define the architecture, technology direction, and delivery approach for a platform that sits at the intersection of digital assets, tokenisation, regulation, and institutional finance.
For someone who enjoys solving difficult architecture problems and building platforms that matter, this represents a unique opportunity to leave a lasting mark on the evolution of digital markets.
Why Join?
This is an opportunity to join a high-profile programme at an early stage and play a leading role in defining the architecture of a new digital asset platform.
You will work on complex challenges across distributed systems, digital assets, tokenisation, settlement, interoperability, security, and regulatory compliance, helping to shape technology decisions that will have long-term impact.
The role offers significant visibility, a high degree of technical ownership, and the opportunity to work alongside senior business leaders, architects, engineers, regulators, and market participants.
For the right individual, this is a chance to combine deep technical architecture with genuine strategic importance in an area that is attracting significant investment and attention across the financial services industry.
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