Digital Assets Technical Architect

About the role

Join our AI & Engineering team in transforming technology platforms, driving innovation, and helping make a significant impact on our clients' success. You'll work alongside talented professionals reimagining and re-engineering operations and processes that are critical to businesses.

Responsibilities

• Leading technical architecture activities for digital assets engagements, including target-state architecture, application design, integration patterns, data flows, security considerations, and implementation roadmaps
• Translating business, product, and regulatory requirements into technical blueprints for digital asset platforms, tokenization solutions, custody capabilities, and blockchain-enabled workflows
• Guiding engineering teams through architecture decisions, technical standards, solution design reviews, and implementation planning for scalable, secure, and high-performance platforms
• Collaborating with client stakeholders across technology, product, operations, risk, compliance, and business teams to align architecture decisions with enterprise objectives and delivery requirements
• Supporting large-scale transformation programs across banking, payments, and digital assets by shaping solution options, evaluating platforms and vendors, and driving execution across multiple workstreams

Requirements

• Required: Bachelor's degree, 7+ years of experience in solution architecture, technical architecture, software engineering, or platform engineering roles within banking, capital markets, payments, or financial services
• Required: 7+ years of experience leading end-to-end architecture for enterprise technology initiatives from requirements through implementation
• Required: Experience delivering at least 2 large-scale transformations in core banking modernization, platform migration, payments modernization, or digital asset platform implementation
• Required: Experience with application programming interfaces (APIs), service-oriented architecture (SOA), event-driven architecture, microservices, cloud platforms, blockchain, distributed ledger technology (DLT), or tokenization
• Required: Ability to travel 50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve
• Preferred: Advanced degree or certification in architecture, cloud, agile delivery, or program management
• Preferred: Experience with digital asset infrastructure, including custody platforms, tokenization engines, stablecoins, digital asset exchanges, or on-chain settlement solutions
• Preferred: Experience with digital asset regulatory, anti-money laundering (AML), know your customer (KYC), sanctions, or Travel Rule requirements
• Preferred: Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Apigee, Kong, MuleSoft, or comparable cloud and integration platforms
• Preferred: Experience evaluating and integrating third-party fintech, blockchain, or digital asset vendor platforms into enterprise environments
• Preferred: Experience presenting architecture recommendations, solution options, or implementation plans to director-, vice president-, C-suite-, or regulatory-level stakeholders