Digital Asset Platform Architect & Governance Lead

Euroclear; France; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Euroclear is building a Digital Asset Platform to power future market infrastructures. As Digital Asset System Architect (Platform Focus), you will define and safeguard the vision, ensure a coherent, scalable and secure architecture, and align delivery across multiple teams.

You will collaborate with engineering, product leaders and external partners to drive platform evolution, governance, and reusable patterns, enabling faster delivery while maintaining resilience and compliance.

Qualifications

• Deep experience in platform architecture, preferably in cloud-native and distributed systems environments.
• Strong knowledge of DLT / digital asset platforms / blockchain ecosystems.
• Proven experience defining and governing architecture standards, patterns, and roadmaps.
• Strong understanding of API-driven architectures, event-driven systems, and integration patterns.
• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure preferred), CI/CD, and DevSecOps practices.
• Strong expertise in security-by-design, identity models, and compliance frameworks.
• Ability to balance strategic vision with pragmatic delivery constraints.
• Proven ability to guide multiple teams without direct authority.
• Strong communication and influencing skills across business and technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define & Own Platform Vision – Define and maintain the target architecture and long‑term vision for the Digital Asset Platform, ensuring alignment with business strategy and innovation goals.
• Drive Platform Evolution – Continuously evolve platform capabilities (DLT, APIs, data, integration, security) to meet emerging business needs and technological opportunities.
• Architecture Governance & Assurance – Ensure that all teams follow the platform architecture principles, standards, and patterns, validating designs and implementations against the defined vision.
• Act as Platform Design Authority – Review solution designs, challenge inconsistencies, and ensure coherence across initiatives, acting as a trusted technical authority.
• Enable Teams & Provide Guidance – Support engineering teams and solution architects by providing clear guidance, reusable patterns, and architectural best practices, enabling efficient and aligned delivery.
• Standardisation & Reuse – Define reference architectures, reusable components, and “golden paths” to reduce fragmentation and accelerate delivery across teams.
• Platform Integration & Ecosystem Alignment – Ensure alignment across platform components (DLT, APIs, cloud, data, security) and integration with internal and external ecosystems.
• Security, Compliance & Resilience by Design – Ensure the platform adheres to security, compliance, and operational resilience requirements, embedding these principles into architecture decisions.
• Stakeholder Collaboration & Influence – Partner with product, engineering, GTS, CISO, and external providers to ensure alignment and adoption of platform standards.
• Innovation & Technology Watch – Stay ahead of industry and technology trends (DLT, tokenization, digital assets), evaluating their impact and integrating relevant innovations into the platform.

Skills

Platform architecture

DLT / blockchain

Architecture standards & governance

API-driven / event-driven

Cloud platforms

Security by design

Influence without authority

Communication

Cross-team collaboration

Job description

Euroclear is building a Digital Asset Platform to power future market infrastructures. As Digital Asset System Architect (Platform Focus), you will define and safeguard the vision, ensure a coherent, scalable and secure architecture, and align delivery across multiple teams.

You will collaborate with engineering, product leaders and external partners to drive platform evolution, governance, and reusable patterns, enabling faster delivery while maintaining resilience and compliance.