Senior Manager, Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) Architect, TC FS

Digital assets in the UK are entering a more practical phase moving beyond pilots towards real products operating models and market infrastructure. That shift is creating important strategic choices for financial institutions across banking markets payments wealth and asset management. Its creating phenomenal market momentum and transformation potential.

Within EYs Financial Services Tech Consulting team were looking to expand our team to help clients navigate this transition and turn momentum into tangible outcomes. You will contribute to the delivery of high profile and complex tech engagements across a wide range of financial services clients.

The opportunity
We are seeking a Senior Manager DLT Architect to lead the technical architecture design and implementation of distributed ledger and digital asset platforms across complex financial services environments.

This role is suited to a deep technologist and hands-on architect with strong experience designing DLT based platforms who can translate business and regulatory requirements into secure scalable production-grade architectures and guide engineering teams through delivery.

Your key responsibilities
Your contribution will play a significant part in helping our clients deliver successful results covering a range of tech are multiple aspects to the role:

DLT & Platform Architecture

• Own theendtoend technical architecturefor DLTbased platforms (e.g. tokenised deposits onchain settlement custody registry and orchestration layers).
• Designlogical physical and deployment architecturescovering onchain and offchain components integration patterns data flows and nonfunctional requirements.
• Make architecture choices acrossDLT protocols(e.g. Corda Ethereumbased platforms Hyperledger) consensus models privacy models and interoperability approaches.
• Definereference architecturesand reusable architectural patterns for digital asset and DLT use cases.

Smart Contracts & Onchain Design

• Lead the design and review ofsmart contractsand onchain workflows ensuring correctness security auditability and upgrade mechanisms.

• Define patterns fortoken models lifecycle management permissions and rolebased access onchain.
• Ensure smart contract and ledger design aligns withlegal regulatory and operational requirements.

Integration & Enterprise Architecture

• Design integration between DLT platforms andcore banking systems payments rails custody platforms trade processing and market infrastructure.

• ArchitectAPIfirst and eventdriven integration patterns including middleware messaging and orchestration layers.
• Ensure interoperability across multiple DLTs and external ecosystems where required.

Security Privacy & Resilience

• Own thesecurity architectureof DLT platforms including key management identity wallet design signing models and secure transaction flows.

• Design solutions that meetenterprise security data privacy resilience and regulatory standards.
• Lead threat modelling and support security reviews audits and penetration testing.

Cloud Infrastructure & DevOps

• Define deployment architectures acrosscloud and hybrid environments including containerisation Kubernetes and infrastructureascode.

• DesignCI/CD pipelinesfor both onchain and offchain components including smart contract build test and deployment.
• Ensure solutions are productionready scalable observable and operable.

Technical Leadership & Governance

• Act astechnical authorityon DLT architecture decisions across programmes and client engagements.

• Lead architecture forums design reviews and technical governance processes.
• Mentor architects engineers and senior consultants raising overall DLT engineering capability.

Client & Stakeholder Engagement

• Work directly withsenior technology architecture and product stakeholdersat banks market infrastructure providers and regulators.

• Translate complex technical concepts into clear structured discussions for nontechnical audiences.
• Support presales activity througharchitecture proposals RFP responses and technical deep dives.

Product & Solution Strategy (Client Advisory Market POV)

• Define and lead client-facing strategies and roadmaps for digital asset payments includingstablecoin settlementtokenised deposits andcross-border/tokenised cash rails.
• Design scalable and sustainable technology architecture.
• Bringthought-provoking perspectives and EY points of viewto challenge client thinking and shape investment decisions especially where technology regulation and operating model trade-offs are involved.
• Track market trends and regulatory developments converting them into clear client implications decisions and execution plans.

Skills and attributes for success
You will bring a passion for delivering an exceptional client service experience. You have a collaborative mind-set. You will be outcome focused but also intellectually curious with a creative approach to problem solving. You have excellent written listening and verbal communication skills and a track record of building and maintaining relationships with stakeholders. You bring strong analytical skills and are confident in tackling new topics.

To qualify for the role you must have

• Strong hands on experience as a solution / platform / technical architect in complex distributed systems
• Deep expertise in DLT and blockchain architectures ideally within financial services
• Experience with smart contract (e.g. Solidity based chains) and secure on chain design
• Strong understanding of payments settlement custody capital markets or banking platforms
• Proven experience designing secure high availability low latency systems
• Solid cloud and infrastructure knowledge (e.g. AWS/Azure containers IaC CI/CD)
• Strong grasp of non-functional requirements: security performance resilience scalability and compliance
• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure AWS or GCP) in regulated environments
• Familiarity with messaging and eventing (Kafka service buses async workflows)
• Exposure to cryptography concepts relevant to digital assets (keys signatures hashing MPC HSMs)
• Strong communication skills able to explain complex technical topics to non-technical stakeholders
• Intellectual curiosity and comfort operating in fast-evolving problem spaces

Ideally youll also have

• Experience working in the financial services industry
• A good range of influencing skills
• A constructive and action-oriented approach
• A self-starting attitude with the ability to think and act quickly
• Experience working in a client facing professional services environment
• An ability to guide and coach team members to help them develop their EY careers
• Experience of operating in a project-based environment

What we look for
We are seeking tech professionals with good knowledge of DLT and digital assets processes and products to join our growing team to build our business and support our clients build more resilient efficient and profitable businesses.

We are looking for experienced and enthusiastic team members to drive delivery of client engagements and to develop new solutions and market insights to drive revenue growth.

What we offer
We offer an attractive remuneration package where youll be rewarded for your performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs covering holidays health and well-being insurance savings and a wide range of discounts offers and promotions. Plus we offer:

• Continuous learning:Youll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you:Well provide the tools and flexibility so you can make a meaningful impact your way.
• Transformative leadership:Well give you the insights coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture:Youll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above please contact us as soon as possible.

The exceptional EY experience. Its yours to build.

Apply now.