Director/VP Blockchain Architect – Digital Assets Platform

Morgan Stanley; Menlo Park (CA); Sur place; USD 120 000 - 215 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Morgan Stanley is seeking a Blockchain Engineer at Director or VP level for the Digital Assets Platform Technology team in the United States. The role leads a cross-functional engineering group building custody, tokenization, and blockchain connectivity solutions with security-by-design and enterprise-grade resilience.

Ideal candidates bring 7+ years in tech, 3+ years in digital assets, and strong cloud-native, CI/CD, and cryptography expertise.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant technology experience, typically with a Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
• 3+ years of hands‑on experience with digital assets, blockchain, tokenization, or distributed‑ledger technologies, preferably delivering production solutions.
• Strong experience with cloud‑native architecture and infrastructure, preferably AWS, together with CI/CD, DevSecOps, containerization, IaC, and modern platform‑engineering practices.
• Strong understanding of digital asset and blockchain architecture, including distributed ledgers, consensus mechanisms, smart contracts, cryptography, transaction lifecycle, and on‑chain/off‑chain integration patterns.

Responsabilités

• Lead and mentor a cross-functional engineering team responsible for building secure, scalable, and resilient digital asset custody capabilities within the Digital Assets Platform.
• Define the engineering roadmap for digital asset custody, wallet and key-management capabilities, blockchain connectivity, transaction processing, and supporting platform services.
• Lead the design, architecture, and implementation of custody solutions with strong focus on security-by-design, cryptographic key protection, transaction integrity, access controls, auditability, and resilience.
• Design integrations with institutional custody and wallet technology providers, blockchain networks, node infrastructure, and downstream enterprise platforms.
• Establish secure patterns for the digital asset transaction lifecycle, including creation, validation, authorization, signing, submission, confirmation, and reconciliation.
• Partner with cybersecurity, technology risk, compliance, legal, operations, and product teams to translate requirements into robust technical solutions.
• Own production readiness and reliability, including CI/CD, monitoring/observability, incident management, disaster recovery, business continuity, and secure release management for critical services.
• Implement engineering practices covering secure coding, automated testing, threat modeling, vulnerability management, code review, security testing, and production controls.

Connaissances

Blockchain systems

Cloud architecture AWS

CI/CD & DevSecOps

Security by design

Cryptography

Smart contracts

Leadership

Formation

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Outils

Node/RPC infrastructure

Blockchain networks

Kubernetes

Docker

Description du poste

Morgan Stanley is seeking a Blockchain Engineer at Director or VP level for the Digital Assets Platform Technology team in the United States. The role leads a cross-functional engineering group building custody, tokenization, and blockchain connectivity solutions with security-by-design and enterprise-grade resilience.

Ideal candidates bring 7+ years in tech, 3+ years in digital assets, and strong cloud-native, CI/CD, and cryptography expertise.