Principal Solutions Architect, Partnerships - Banking & Capital Markets

Chainlink Labs; London; Remote; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading decentralized technology firm is seeking a Principal Solutions Architect to drive the adoption of their platform within the banking and capital markets industries. This role involves collaborating with partners to create scalable solutions, requiring both technical fluency and business acumen. Candidates should have experience in technology pre/post-sales and a strong understanding of blockchain. The position is remote, allowing for overlapping hours with Eastern Standard Time.

Qualifications

• Proven track record of delivering strategic technology solutions.
• Experience with blockchain technology and digital assets.
• Hands-on experience with web services technologies and APIs.

Responsibilities

• Establish high-impact use cases to drive Chainlink adoption.
• Conduct discovery sessions with partners.
• Translate partner needs into actionable product requirements.

Skills

Technical pre/postsales technology experience

Engaging with senior stakeholders

Knowledge of blockchain technology

Middleware and integration architecture experience

Building Proofs of Concept (PoCs)

Tools

Solidity

Golang

Rust

JavaScript

Java

Python

C/C++

Job description

About Us

Chainlink Labs is the primary contributing developer of Chainlink, the decentralized computing platform powering the verifiable web. Chainlink is the industry-standard platform for providing access to real-world data, offchain computation, and secure cross-chain interoperability across any blockchain. Chainlink Labs helps power verifiable applications for banking, DeFi, global trade, and gaming by collaborating with some of the world’s largest financial institutions, notably Swift, DTCC, and ANZ. Chainlink Labs also works with top Web3 teams, including Aave, Compound, GMX, Maker, and Synthetix. Chainlink Labswas ranked as one of the Global Top 100 Most Loved Workplacesby Newsweek 2025.

About The Role

As a principal solutions architect for our Capital Markets Partnerships segment, you will play a critical role in bridging the gap between our platform and the unique needs of our up and down-stream partners to create scalable adoption of the Chainlink platform across the banking and capital markets industry. You will serve as a domain technical expert, working closely with partners (e.g., tokenization platforms, custodians, ISVs), sales, product, and marketing teams to identify and execute how to embed and integrate our technology into partner technology stacks in regulatory compliant ways. This is a highly strategic and consultative role that requires both business acumen and technical fluency to articulate how our technology can provide value to the partner, using repeatable solutions frameworks to scale our penetration across various partner segments.

Your Impact

• Establish yourself as a catalyst for Chainlink adoption by identifying and developing high-impact use cases, shaping product direction, and elevating the company’s presence within the banking and capital markets industry.

• Own discovery sessions with a broad set of partners across a range of prioritized partner segments

• Serve as a critical feedback loop to Product, Engineering, and R&D teams, translating partner needs and integration insights into actionable product requirements and enhancements.

• Identify and prioritize high-impact, repeatable partner integration frameworks

Requirements

• Technical pre/postsales technology experience, working with major institutions within capital markets

• Proven track record of engaging with senior stakeholders to define and deliver strategic technology solutions.

• Experience with, and strong knowledge of blockchain technology and associated areas (e.g. DeFi, tokenisation / digital assets, digital identity etc)

• Hands on experience with middleware, integration architecture patterns, web services technologies, and APIs

• Experience building and delivering Proofs of Concept (PoCs) and responding to functional and technical elements of proposals independently and effectively

Preferred Requirements

• Experience designing, building and integrating software solutions through a channel partnership sales motion

• Experience in any of the following: Solidity, Golang, Rust, JS, Java, Python, C/C++

• Experience of networking protocols, private IP environments, cloud infrastructure, and the implementation of SSL/TLS security measures

All roles with Chainlink Labs are global and remote-based. Unless otherwise stated, we ask that you try to overlap some working hours with Eastern Standard Time (EST).

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