Lead Blockchain Architect

SS&C Technologies Holdings; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial technology firm is seeking a Lead Blockchain Architect to design and implement integration solutions for digital investments. The role involves defining architecture, ensuring alignment with business objectives, and overseeing cross-team collaboration. The ideal candidate should have a strong background in blockchain technology, enterprise architecture, and asset management. This position offers a hybrid work model, professional development opportunities, and a commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Benefits

Professional Development Reimbursement

Competitive holiday scheme

Competitive benefits

Hands-On, Team-Customised Training

Qualifications

• Domain-specific knowledge in asset management/funds administration/capital markets.
• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture principles and integration challenges.
• Deep knowledge of NFRs (performance, reliability, security).

Responsibilities

• Define and implement an end-to-end solution architecture to achieve business outcomes.
• Ensure application and infrastructure architectures align with business objectives.
• Orchestrate cross-team dependencies and integration milestones.

Skills

Blockchain/tokenisation technology

Enterprise architecture principles

Stakeholder management

Risk mitigation

Job description

Job Description

Get To Know Us:

SS&C is leading the way. We continue to look for today's and tomorrow’s brightest talent, those who embody a spirit to improve not only their lives, but those around them. From college students to seasoned and experienced professionals, we encourage you to apply. SS&C prides itself on hiring diverse, honest, dynamic individuals who value collaboration, accountability, and innovation, to name a few.

Lead Blockchain Architect - Build the Future of Digital Investments!

Locations: London, Bristol, Stirling, Basildon, Lichfield, Warrington | Hybrid

The Opportunity

We are seeking a Lead Blockchain Architect in the funds space. You'll help us deliver scalable and secure integration solutions in digital investments and play a pivotal role in ensuring STP data flow and system interoperability with our enterprise architecture. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in development, enterprise architecture, and integration challenges, with proven knowledge of tokenisation, blockchain, and emerging technologies.

Why This Role Matters

At SS&C, we’re not just building systems—we’re engineering the backbone of global financial technology. As a Blockchain Architect, you’ll design and orchestrate the technical fabric that powers seamless data flow and interoperability across a multi-system, regulated environment. This is your chance to influence enterprise architecture at scale and tackle integration challenges that redefine digital investments.

What You Will Get To Do:

Integration Strategy & Blueprint

• Define and implement an end-to-end solution architecture to achieve business outcomes.
• Maintain integration maps, dependency matrices, and readiness plans.

Cross-Domain Alignment

• Ensure application and infrastructure architectures align with business objectives and non-functional requirements (NFRs).
• Facilitate trade-offs between domains (e.g., performance vs. cost) without dictating implementation details.

Delivery Coordination

• Orchestrate cross-team dependencies and integration milestones.
• Partner with Product Owners on roadmap alignment and sequencing.
• Lead implementations and client interactions.

Governance

• Leads the cross-functional Design Authority.
• Oversee change governance and integration readiness gates.
• Ensure operational handover plans (runbooks, observability, support boundaries) are in place.

What You Will Bring:

• Domain-specific knowledge in asset management/funds administration/ capital markets.
• A passion and understanding for blockchain/tokenisation technology, and how it can revolutionise traditional finance.
• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture principles and integration challenges.
• Experience in multi-system solution design and program-level coordination.
• Ability to translate business objectives into high-level architectural blueprints and integration strategies.
• Skilled in stakeholder management, facilitation, and risk mitigation.
• Deep knowledge of NFRs (performance, reliability, security).
• Exposure to regulated environments and complex multi-system landscapes, with an awareness of regulatory frameworks for tokenised assets.
• Understanding of modern delivery practices (DevOps, CI/CD) at a conceptual level.

Why You Will Love It Here!

• Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model
• Your Future: Professional Development Reimbursement, including access to SS&C University
• Work/Life Balance: Competitive holiday scheme
• Your Wellbeing: Competitive benefits designed to support the well-being of our staff
• Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity
• Training: Hands-On, Team-Customised throughout your career

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds to enable us to bring diverse perspectives to our thinking and conversation. It's important to us that we strive to have a workforce that is diverse in the widest sense.