Custody Tech Architect: Digital Assets & Blockchain

Citi; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 93,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Competitive salary

Job summary

Citi Dublin is seeking a Custody Technology Analyst to help design and integrate digital asset solutions within Citi's custody platform. You will collaborate daily with product managers, blockchain engineers, architects, and operations to translate complex requirements into robust specs.

The role requires a strong technical foundation, knowledge of blockchain, microservices, and REST APIs. You will help ensure security, scalability, and resilience in a Tier-1 global bank while embracing hybrid

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a technical role such as Software Engineering, Technical Systems Analysis, or Solutions Architecture.
• Strong conceptual and practical understanding of blockchain, DLT networks, smart contracts, tokenization, and digital custody.
• Hands-on experience with modern, high-throughput microservices, event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka, pub/sub), and RESTful APIs.
• Experience designing, developing, or supporting mission-critical, highly resilient enterprise systems.
• Background in financial services, with exposure to securities services, custody, clearing, or settlement systems.

Responsibilities

• Conduct deep technical analysis of business and functional requirements, translating them into robust, developer-ready specifications and system designs.
• Analyze, map, and communicate the downstream impacts of integrating new digital asset and blockchain systems with Citi's existing global technology stack.
• Partner with global stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Risk, and Operations to design and deliver a cohesive target architecture and operating model.
• Drive project tasks independently, proactively identifying potential bottlenecks or delivery risks, and communicating them early to ensure timely project execution.
• Design and implement modifications within existing global custody applications to support digital asset use cases, tokenization, and smart contract execution.
• Contribute actively to system architecture discussions, advocating for modern, clean, secure, and highly scalable design patterns.

Skills

Technical analysis

Systems integration

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication skills

Problem-solving

Tools

Microservices

REST APIs

Kafka

Event-driven architectures

Job description

Citi Dublin is seeking a Custody Technology Analyst to help design and integrate digital asset solutions within Citi's custody platform. You will collaborate daily with product managers, blockchain engineers, architects, and operations to translate complex requirements into robust specs.

The role requires a strong technical foundation, knowledge of blockchain, microservices, and REST APIs. You will help ensure security, scalability, and resilience in a Tier-1 global bank while embracing hybrid