Technology Director Digital Asset

Job Description

Technology Director | Digital Assets | DLT Architecture

About The Role

We are looking to hire a Technology Director – Digital Assets to lead the technical vision, architecture, and engineering direction of our digital assets initiatives.

This is not a program management, project management, orchestration, or pure people leadership role.

We are specifically looking for a recognized DLT / blockchain technology expert who brings strong architectural depth across modern digital asset platforms and can shape the future-state technology stack for blockchain-based solutions in a regulated financial environment.

The right candidate will combine deep expertise in DLT technologies, tokenisation models, smart contracts, interoperability patterns, blockchain platform design, and next-generation distributed architectures with the ability to translate complex concepts into scalable, secure, and business-relevant solutions. This direction is consistent with the hiring need to prioritize a technically strong DLT leader rather than a coordination-heavy profile.

You will act as the senior technical authority for digital assets, working across innovation, engineering, architecture, product, and business stakeholders to define and drive the right technical choices from concept through production.

What This Role Is Really About

This role is for someone who can:

• define and challenge DLT architecture choices
• assess and compare blockchain platforms, smart contract models, and interoperability patterns
• guide the design of tokenised asset and digital cash solutions
• bring credibility with architects and engineers because of genuine technical depth
• simplify highly complex blockchain concepts for senior non-technical stakeholders
• help the organisation make informed technology decisions in an evolving digital assets landscape
  
  

Key Responsibilities

• DLT and Digital Asset Architecture Leadership
• Define the target architecture for digital asset and blockchain-based initiatives.
• Lead technology choices across DLT platforms, smart contract frameworks, tokenisation models, digital asset lifecycle design, and interoperability mechanisms.
• Evaluate modern blockchain architectures across public, private, hybrid, and permissioned environments.
• Shape architectural principles for scalability, resilience, security, compliance, and maintainability in digital asset platforms.
• Advise on technical design choices related to tokenised assets, tokenised cash, settlement models, programmability, and on-chain/off-chain integration patterns.
  
  

Technical Authority and Engineering Credibility

• Act as the senior technical reference point for blockchain and DLT topics across the organisation.
• Challenge solution designs with architects, engineers, and vendors using strong first-principles understanding.
• Bring hands-on architectural judgment across smart contracts, distributed systems, ledger models, APIs, event-driven patterns, cloud-native architecture, and secure integration design.
• Provide deep technical guidance on emerging blockchain solution patterns, including interoperability, atomic settlement, digital identity linkage, programmability, and ledger interaction models.
  
  

Innovation to Production

• Support the evolution of use cases from early-stage innovation and proof of concept through to production-grade architecture.
• Ensure digital asset solutions move beyond concept into scalable, secure, and compliant implementation.
• Translate technical possibilities into practical architecture roadmaps and decision frameworks.
  
  

What We Are Not Looking For

• an orchestration profile
• a program or project manager
• a delivery-only lead
• a pure people manager without strong DLT technical depth
  
  

We are looking for a hands-on architecture-minded technology leader who can bring real expertise in blockchain and digital asset solution architecture.

About Us

Why join us

Embark on your new adventure at Euroclear, and work at the heart of the global capital markets. We connect over 2,000 financial institutions across the globe. As an open and resilient infrastructure, we contribute to the stability of the financial markets. We help clients cut through complexity, lower costs, and mitigate risks of financial transactions. At Euroclear, we have the clear ambition to use our key role to facilitate and accelerate a sustainable global financial system.

What We Offer

• Work closely with inspiring, supportive and engaged colleagues from more than 80 different countries.
• Practice your talents in a highly professional international environment.
• Join a learning and development environment with an emphasis on knowledge sharing and training.
• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits.
  
  

Ways of working

Find your own optimal balance within our hybrid working model, where you can connect at the office 8 days a month and also benefit from remote working.

Great Place to Work for All

We are committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates diversity and strives to be a Great Place to Work for All. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment, regardless of any aspect that makes them unique (including race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, pregnancy, disability, ...). If you need any specific accommodation due to disability or any other reason, you can let the recruiter know during your application process. Our values guide how we work together and shape our future: Our mission and values - Euroclear

About The Team

The Group Digital Capabilities (GDC) division contributes to Euroclear’s competitiveness by delivering reliable and sustainable IT solutions for the financial securities markets. Our teams deliver new IT solutions and improve existing applications for both our internal and external clients. We deploy changes into the production environment in a controlled and structured way that does not compromise production stability and we ensure applicative production support.