Digital Assets Platform Engineering Team Lead

Salary: £62,000 - 102,000 per year

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline required; Masters or PhD in Computer Science strongly preferred
• Extensive progressive software engineering experience across the full software development and testing lifecycle, with demonstrated growth into senior technical leadership roles; experience within financial services or highly regulated industries strongly preferred
• Extensive hands-on expertise in backend web application development using Java and Spring frameworks, with deep knowledge of enterprise architecture patterns, microservices, and distributed systems
• Solid direct people management or team lead experience, with a track record of developing senior engineers and delivering outcomes through teams
• Proven experience in Blockchain/Digital Assets application development, including blockchain integration, decentralized protocols, and tokenization frameworks
• Proven experience architecting and delivering high-throughput, high-availability enterprise systems that meet strict standards for reliability, scalability, and performance
• Strong proficiency in asynchronous programming paradigms and event-driven architecture patterns
• Working knowledge of Web3 libraries (Web3J, Web3JS) and their application in enterprise contexts
• Demonstrated familiarity with Solidity and smart contract development best practices
• Solid understanding of DevOps principles, containerized application deployment (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm Charts), and CI/CD pipeline management
• Practitioner-level command of Agile methodologies, Scrum, and scaled delivery frameworks

• Define and own the end-to-end technical strategy and architecture for the CIDAP platform, ensuring alignment with our enterprise technology standards, risk appetite, and long-term business objectives
• Provide authoritative technical guidance on backend engineering (Java/Spring), Web3 infrastructure, blockchain integration patterns, and distributed systems design
• Champion engineering excellence across the platform, setting the bar for code quality, system resilience, scalability, and performance
• Evaluate and introduce emerging technologies, frameworks, and industry best practices in blockchain, digital assets, and enterprise backend engineering to keep us at the forefront of the space
• Drive architectural decisions and review critical design proposals, ensuring solutions are robust, maintainable, and aligned with our organizational standards
• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of senior software engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous learning
• Set clear technical and professional growth expectations for direct reports; provide ongoing coaching, performance feedback, and career development guidance
• Recruit and retain top engineering talent, contributing to workforce planning and capability building across our digital assets engineering practice
• Cultivate psychological safety, inclusion, and a high-performance team culture within a globally distributed engineering environment
• Own the platforms engineering delivery commitments, accountable for on-time, on-budget, and high-quality delivery of complex, multi-workstream initiatives
• Drive Agile engineering practices across the team, ensuring effective sprint planning, backlog prioritization, dependency management, and retrospective-driven improvement
• Define and enforce engineering quality standards including test coverage, code review practices, documentation, and CI/CD pipeline discipline
• Proactively identify, escalate, and resolve technical risks, blockers, and cross-team dependencies to ensure project momentum and stakeholder confidence

• Backend
• Blockchain
• CI/CD
• DevOps
• Docker
• Helm
• Java
• Kubernetes
• Solidity
• Spring
• Web3
• Web
• microservices

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Citi is seeking a highly accomplished and visionary SVP, Digital Assets Platform Engineering Lead to spearhead the continued evolution of the Citi Integrated Digital Assets Platform (CIDAP). This senior leadership role is based in London, England, United Kingdom and requires deep technical mastery, strategic thinking, and proven people leadership. We offer a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model of up to 2 days working from home per week, a competitive base salary reviewed annually, and benefits including 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays, a discretionary annual performance-related bonus, private medical care and life insurance, employee assistance program, pension plan, paid parental leave, special discounts for employees, family, and friends, and access to learning and development resources. The role offers exposure across Citis technology and engineering groups globally, the opportunity to work with a highly motivated team, visibility across the senior leadership team, and access to our executive management team. We are committed to an inclusive workplace where everyone feels comfortable coming to work as their whole self, every day.

last updated 36 week of 2026