Lead, Development

Job Summary

We are seeking a senior, technically accomplished Development Lead to provide solutioning leadership across multiple Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) products and delivery teams within the DLT Center of Excellence. The role is accountable for shaping end-to-end DLT system solutions across blockchain infrastructure, digital assets, tokenisation platforms, and enterprise integrations, ensuring that product-specific designs are coherent, reusable, secure, and aligned with the organisation’s strategic technology direction. The successful candidate will partner closely with Group Architecture, Security Architecture, the CISO organisation, engineering leads, product owners, infrastructure teams, risk, and compliance stakeholders to translate business objectives and control requirements into scalable, resilient, and production-ready solutions. This is a senior hands-on leadership role requiring deep DLT expertise, broad enterprise technology judgement, and the ability to influence technical decisions and delivery standards across multiple teams.

Key Responsibilities

Own and evolve the target-state solution approach for a portfolio of DLT products, establishing coherence across shared platforms, product-specific capabilities, integrations, and deployment environments. Lead DLT system solutioning from discovery through production, including technology selection, design trade-offs, non-functional requirements, integration patterns, deployment topology, resilience, observability, scalability, and lifecycle considerations. Provide technical direction across multiple engineering teams, aligning designs, identifying cross-product dependencies, promoting reusable capabilities, and resolving complex solutioning issues that span team or product boundaries. Partner with Group Architecture to ensure DLT solutions align with enterprise principles, target-state technology direction, approved standards, integration patterns, and governance processes. Engage Security Architecture and the CISO organisation early in the solution lifecycle to define security requirements, threat models, control designs, key-management approaches, security assurance activities, and remediation plans. Prepare and present solution designs, options, decisions, risks, and exceptions to relevant design authorities and governance forums, taking accountability for obtaining required approvals. Set and govern engineering standards for smart contracts, DLT platforms, APIs, cryptography, secure coding, testing, DevSecOps, observability, and operational readiness across the product portfolio. Remain sufficiently hands-on to validate critical designs, lead technical spikes and proofs of concept, review high-risk implementations, and support resolution of complex production issues. Collaborate with product, risk, legal, compliance, infrastructure, network, operations, and external technology partners to convert business and regulatory needs into executable technical roadmaps. Mentor senior engineers and technical leads, strengthen DLT system solutioning capability across teams, and foster a culture of technical excellence, security by design, and accountable decision-making.