Senior Blockchain Engineer VP – Digital Assets

Barclays•Jefferson, CO

1d•$170,000 - $230,000•Onsite

About The Position

Embark on a transformative journey as a Senior Blockchain Engineer VP – Digital Assets. At Barclays, our vision is clear –to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. In this role, you will join a team working at the ground floor of a 0-to-1 build. You will help design, build, and operate the blockchain infrastructure that powers Barclays’ next-generation Digital Assets Platform. This role focuses on deploying and managing institutional-grade blockchain networks and connectivity services that support crypto assets such as tokenized deposits, stablecoins, tokenized securities, and other regulated digital asset use cases. You will work across permissioned and open blockchain ecosystems, delivering resilient, secure, and scalable infrastructure while partnering closely with engineering, architecture, security, and platform teams to integrate blockchain capabilities into Barclays’ broader technology landscape.

Requirements

Experience building, deploying, and operating production blockchain platforms such as Ethereum, Solana, Besu, and /or other EVM-compatible technologies
Practical expertise configuring and managing blockchain network infrastructure, including bootnodes, validators, RPC services, peer management, consensus mechanisms, permissioning frameworks, and node lifecycle operations
Demonstrate experience integrating and operating connectors, relayers, bridges, or interoperability services between permissioned and open blockchain networks while understanding transaction finality, settlement models, and network-specific behaviors
Be comfortable designing and operating highly available blockchain infrastructure, including node monitoring, chain-data storage optimization, performance tuning, observability, disaster recovery, and operational resilience controls
Risk and controls
Change and transformation
Business acumen
Strategic thinking
Digital and technology
Job-specific technical skills
Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right.
Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.

Nice To Haves

Experience building multi-chain abstraction layers, blockchain adaptors, wallet integrations, and platform services that simplify interaction across multiple distributed ledger technologies
Knowledge of token standards, onchain governance mechanisms, protocol upgrades, and blockchain network operations
Understanding of digital asset workflows, including tokenized deposits, stablecoins, custody, settlement, securities tokenization, and institutional blockchain-based financial services

Responsibilities

Build Engineering: Development, delivery, and maintenance of high-quality infrastructure solutions to fulfil business requirements ensuring measurable reliability, performance, availability, and ease of use. Including the identification of the appropriate technologies and solutions to meet business, optimisation, and resourcing requirements.
Incident Management: Monitoring of IT infrastructure and system performance to measure, identify, address, and resolve any potential issues, vulnerabilities, or outages. Use of data to drive down mean time to resolution.
Automation: Development and implementation of automated tasks and processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention, utilising software scripting/coding disciplines.
Security: Implementation of a secure configuration and measures to protect infrastructure against cyber-attacks, vulnerabilities, and other security threats, including protection of hardware, software, and data from unauthorised access.
Teamwork: Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, architects, and other engineers to define IT Infrastructure requirements, devise solutions, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives via a data driven approach.
Learning: Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations, and actively contribute to the organization's technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
Contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change.
Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.
Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.
Design, build, and operate the blockchain infrastructure that powers Barclays’ next-generation Digital Assets Platform.
Deploy and manage institutional-grade blockchain networks and connectivity services that support crypto assets such as tokenized deposits, stablecoins, tokenized securities, and other regulated digital asset use cases.
Work across permissioned and open blockchain ecosystems, delivering resilient, secure, and scalable infrastructure.
Partner closely with engineering, architecture, security, and platform teams to integrate blockchain capabilities into Barclays’ broader technology landscape.