Senior Engineer VP - Digital Assets

Barclays; Whippany (NJ); On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Incentive award

Job summary

Barclays in Whippany, NJ seeks a Senior Engineer VP - Digital Assets to design and build secure platforms for tokenization, wallets, smart contracts, and enterprise integration. You will shape the next generation of regulated digital asset capabilities with scalable architectures and DevSecOps practices.

The role emphasizes end-to-end ownership, risk-aware engineering, and collaboration with product, risk, compliance, and operations.

Qualifications

• Experience designing tokenized deposits, bonds, and digital asset systems in regulated banks.
• Practical expertise with L1/L2, smart contracts, cryptographic services, interoperability.
• Understanding token standards, on-chain settlement, and enterprise asset design.
• Experience delivering end-to-end technical solutions with testing and deployment.
• Knowledge of DevSecOps, CI/CD, secrets management, and cloud security.
• Ability to work across engineering, architecture, product, risk, compliance and operations.

Responsibilities

• Provide subject matter expertise to support product development and collaboration between product owner and technical teams.
• Develop and implement the product strategy and communicate with stakeholders and development team.
• Gather and prioritise requirements based on business value and feasibility, ensuring they are well defined and secure.
• Develop assessments to ensure continuous testing and improvement of product quality and performance.
• Monitor product performance to identify opportunities for optimization that meet performance standards.
• Stay current with industry tech trends to adopt new approaches for better delivery.

Skills

Tokenization systems

L1/L2 blockchain

Smart contracts

Cryptographic services

DevSecOps

CI/CD

AI-enabled engineering

Cloud platforms

Tools

Kubernetes

API gateways

Kafka

Cloud platforms

Job description

Embark on a transformative journey as a Senior Engineer VP - Digital Assets. At Barclays, our vision is clear – to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. In this role, you will contribute to building the technology that drives Barclays’ next generation of regulated digital asset capabilities. You’ll design and develop secure, scalable platforms that enable tokenization, wallet‑driven workflows, smart contract functionality, and seamless integration with core enterprise systems—offering the opportunity to work on high‑impact engineering at the leading edge of financial innovation.

To be successful as a Senior Engineer VP - Digital Assets, you should:

• Bring proven experience designing and building tokenized deposits, bonds, repos, stablecoins, and related digital asset systems in a regulated financial institution
• Have practical expertise across L1s/L2s, smart contracts, cryptographic services, and interoperability frameworks
• Demonstrate a good understanding of token standards, on‑chain settlement concepts, and apply this knowledge to enterprise Digital Asset design in a regulated environment
• Be comfortable owning technical solutions end‑to‑end, from design and development through testing, deployment, and continuous improvement
• Apply DevSecOps discipline, including CI/CD, secrets management, cloud security, and automated testing
• Be confident using AI‑enabled engineering and productivity tooling to accelerate delivery, improve code quality, enhance decision‑making and mitigate technology and operational risk

Other Highly Valued Skills Include

• Knowledge of payments systems, instant payments, cross‑border flows, and digital asset‑enabled settlement
• Understanding of capital markets workflows, including issuance, trading, DvP/PvP, lifecycle events, and corporate actions
• Experience with cloud platforms, Kubernetes/containers, API gateways, Kafka, and enterprise messaging
• Considerable grounding in distributed systems patterns, secure engineering, and modern software design principles
• Ability to work effectively across engineering, architecture, product, risk, compliance, and operations teams

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in this role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, as well as job‑specific technical skills.

This role is located in our Whippany, NJ office.

Minimum Salary: $170,000

Maximum Salary: $230,000

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above includes only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances.

This position is eligible for an incentive award.

Purpose of the role

To collaborate with product owners and other technical teams involved in the product development process and utilise their knowledge of the bank’s technologies to enact the vision defined in the product roadmap.

Accountabilities

• Provision of subject matter expertise to support the collaboration between the product owner and the technical side of product development.
• Support the development and implementation of the product strategy and vision defined in the product roadmap and communicate them with the relevant stakeholders and the development team.
• Collaboration with internal stakeholders to gather and prioritise product requirements and features based on business value and feasibility that are well defined, measurable and secure.
• Development and implementation of assessments to ensure continuous testing and improvement of product quality and performance.
• Monitoring of product performance to identify opportunities for optimisation that meets the bank’s performance standards.
• Stay abreast of the latest industry technology trends and technologies, to evaluate and adopt new approaches to improve product development and delivery.

Vice President Expectations

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and elevate breaches of policies/procedures.
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
• OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi‑year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In‑depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.