Principal Engineer- Digital Assets

Barclays•Jefferson, CO

19h

About The Position

Purpose of the role To drive technical excellence and innovation by leading the design and implementation of robust software solutions, providing mentorship to engineering teams, fostering cross-functional collaboration, and contributing to strategic planning to ensure the delivery of high-quality solutions aligned with business objectives. Purpose of Role: To lead the technical strategy, architecture, and delivery of enterprise‑grade Digital Asset solutions by driving hands‑on engineering excellence, mentoring teams, and collaborating across functions to build secure, scalable, and compliant DLT platforms aligned with business objectives.

Requirements

Proven expertise designing and building tokenised deposits, bonds, repos, stablecoins, and other digital asset solutions in regulated financial institutions
Hands‑on experience with DLT platforms including L1s, L2s, smart contracts, on‑chain compliance, custody wallets (HSM/MPC), and interoperability frameworks at regulated financial institutions
Strong architectural leadership with the ability to own end‑to‑end technical design, conduct design reviews, and guide engineering teams
Solid understanding of DevSecOps practices - CI/CD, IaC, secrets management, automated testing, cloud security, and production‑grade reliability – particularly as applied in DLT programmes
Self-disciplined, hard working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful employees.
Make choices according to what is best for the team.
Live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of payments systems, instant payments, cross‑border flows, and digital asset‑enabled settlement
Understanding of capital markets workflows: issuance, trading, DvP/PvP, lifecycle events, corporate actions
Hands‑on experience with cloud platforms, Kubernetes/containers, API gateways, Kafka, and enterprise messaging
Strong grasp of software engineering fundamentals, distributed systems patterns, and best‑practice design principles

Responsibilities

Provision of guidance and expertise to engineering teams to ensure alignment with best practices and foster a culture of technical excellence.
Contribution to strategic planning by aligning technical decisions with business goals, anticipating future technology trends, and providing insights to optimize product roadmaps.
Design and implementation of complex, scalable, and maintainable software solutions, considering long-term viability and business objectives.
Mentoring and coaching to junior and mid-level engineers to foster professional growth and knowledge sharing, elevating the overall skillset and capabilities of the organization.
Collaboration with business partners, product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions and ensure a cohesive approach to product development.
Innovation within the organization by identifying and incorporating new technologies, methodologies, and industry practices into the engineering process.
Manage a business function, providing significant input to function wide strategic initiatives.
Contribute to and influence policy and procedures for the function and plan, manage and consult on multiple complex and critical strategic projects, which may be business wide.
Manage the direction of a large team or sub-function, leading other people managers and embedding a performance culture aligned to the values of the business.
Lead organisation wide projects and act as deep technical expert and thought leader, identifying new ways of working and collaborating cross functionally.
Train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.
Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function, offering significant input to function wide strategic initiatives.
Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function.
Escalates breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
Foster and guide compliance, ensure regulations are observed that relevant processes in place to facilitate adherence.
Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to both monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays, when appropriate.
Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division / Group to achieve the overall business objectives.
Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline alongside up-to-date relevant sector / functional knowledge, and insight into external market developments / initiatives.
Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/ sensitive situations.
Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area.
Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally.
Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/ businesses divisions.
Act as spokesperson for the function and business division.
Demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard.
Lead the technical strategy, architecture, and delivery of enterprise‑grade Digital Asset solutions by driving hands‑on engineering excellence, mentoring teams, and collaborating across functions to build secure, scalable, and compliant DLT platforms aligned with business objectives.

Benefits

Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people.

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