Senior Engineer VP - Digital Assets

Barclays•Jefferson, CO

1d•$170,000 - $230,000•Onsite

About The Position

Embark on a transformative journey as a Senior 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 contribute to building the technology that drives Barclays’ next generation of regulated digital asset capabilities. You’ll design and develop secure, scalable platforms that enable tokenization, wallet-driven workflows, smart contract functionality, and seamless integration with core enterprise systems—offering the opportunity to work on high-impact engineering at the leading edge of financial innovation.

Requirements

Proven experience designing and building tokenized deposits, bonds, repos, stablecoins, and related digital asset systems in a regulated financial institution
Practical expertise across L1s/L2s, smart contracts, cryptographic services, and interoperability frameworks
Good understanding of token standards, and on-chain settlement concepts, and apply this knowledge to enterprise Digital Asset design in a regulated environment
Comfortable owning technical solutions end-to-end, from design and development through testing, deployment, and continuous improvement
Apply DevSecOps discipline, including CI/CD, secrets management, cloud security, and automated testing
Confident using AI-enabled engineering and productivity tooling to accelerate delivery, improve code quality, enhance decision-making and mitigate technology and operational risk
Risk and controls
Change and transformation
Business acumen
Strategic thinking
Digital and technology
Job-specific technical skills
Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship
Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of payments systems, instant payments, cross-border flows, and digital asset-enabled settlement
Understanding of capital markets workflows, including issuance, trading, DvP/PvP, lifecycle events, and corporate actions
Experience with cloud platforms, Kubernetes/containers, API gateways, Kafka, and enterprise messaging
Considerable grounding in distributed systems patterns, secure engineering, and modern software design principles
Ability to work effectively across engineering, architecture, product, risk, compliance, and operations teams

Responsibilities

Provision of subject matter expertise to support the collaboration between the product owner and the technical side of product development.
Support the development and implementation of the product strategy and vision defined in the product roadmap and communicate them with the relevant stakeholders and the development team.
Collaboration with internal stakeholders to gather and prioritise product requirements and features based on business value and feasibility that are well defined, measurable and secure.
Development and implementation of assessments to ensure continuous testing and improvement of product quality and performance.
Monitoring of product performance to identify opportunities for optimisation that meets the banks performance standards.
Stay abreast of the latest industry technology trends and technologies, to evaluate and adopt new approaches to improve product development and delivery.
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.
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.
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.