DLT Payments Architect - Tokenised Banking on GCP

Fuel Recruitment; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Fuel Recruitment is seeking a DLT Payments Solution Architect for a major bank's DLT Wallet programme focused on trading digital bonds, gilts, and money market funds for corporate and institutional clients.

You will define end-to-end DLT-enabled payments architecture, govern blockchain integrations with core banking and risk systems, and design tokenised money solutions. This role requires on-site presence 2 days a week and sits inside IR35.

Qualifications

• Solid understanding of distributed ledger technology and blockchain fundamentals.
• Experience integrating public blockchains with banking systems; key management and controls.
• Understanding tokenisation of money and assets, including stablecoins and GBP tokenised deposits.
• Hands-on Kafka design and operation for event-driven architectures.
• Strong microservices knowledge including domain-driven design and API design.
• Experience on Google Cloud Platform with security concepts like IAM and encryption.
• Track record defending solution architectures in regulated financial services.

Responsibilities

• Define end-to-end architecture for DLT-enabled payments from design to delivery.
• Govern integration of blockchains with core banking, payments, and risk systems.
• Architect tokenisation of money and assets; assess token models and chains.
• Design event-driven integration using Kafka with schemas and idempotency.
• Define microservice boundaries and apply patterns like CQRS and API gateway.
• Architect secure, observable solutions on GCP with security-by-design principles.
• Produce architecture artefacts and integration specifications.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, risk, compliance and vendors.
• Evaluate DLT platforms and custody solutions; provide leadership to squads.

Skills

DLT/blockchain fundamentals

Tokenisation

Public blockchain integration

Event streaming (Kafka)

Microservices architecture

Domain-driven design

API design

Cloud security (IAM, encryption)

Tools

Kafka

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

API gateway

Job description

Fuel Recruitment is seeking a DLT Payments Solution Architect for a major bank's DLT Wallet programme focused on trading digital bonds, gilts, and money market funds for corporate and institutional clients.

You will define end-to-end DLT-enabled payments architecture, govern blockchain integrations with core banking and risk systems, and design tokenised money solutions. This role requires on-site presence 2 days a week and sits inside IR35.