Head of Digital Assets Platform Engineering Director

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Job Overview

Join the Citi Integrated Digital Assets Platform (CIDAP), a strategic, firm-wide initiative transforming financial market infrastructure. We are a global team dedicated to developing institutional-grade products and services for the tokenization, custody, financing, and trading of digital assets, redefining the future of finance.

We are seeking a highly motivated and proactive Head of Digital Assets Platform Engineering for CIDAP. This hands-on leader will be responsible for the complete technical strategy, architectural design, and delivery of our institutional-grade digital assets platform. You will drive engineering excellence, mentor a world-class team, and collaborate with product and business leaders to build and scale a foundational platform for Citis future.

Responsibilities:

• Global Engineering Leadership: Lead, manage, and scale a high-performing, global engineering organization, providing mentorship and technical guidance.
• Technical Vision & Architecture: Define the long-term technical vision, architecture, and strategy for the digital assets platform, making critical decisions on technology stacks, scalability, security, and resiliency.
• Platform Delivery & Execution: Drive end-to-end execution of the engineering roadmap, overseeing the software development lifecycle (SDLC) from concept to production, and ensuring timely, high-quality delivery of robust and scalable solutions.
• Engineering Excellence: Champion best-in-class engineering practices, including Agile methodologies, DevOps/SRE principles, and a culture of quality, automation, and continuous improvement.
• Stakeholder Partnership: Act as the senior engineering partner to the Head of DA Solutions, business leaders, and other stakeholders, translating complex business requirements into actionable engineering plans.
• Talent Management: Attract, hire, and retain top-tier engineering talent globally, fostering an inclusive, collaborative, and innovative engineering culture.
• Risk, Security & Compliance: Embed security and compliance into the platforms DNA, ensuring adherence to Citis stringent risk management, control, and regulatory standards.
• DLT Center of Excellence Partnership: Collaborate with Citi’s DLT Centre of Excellence to ensure best practices in governance, risk management, standardization, and tooling.

Qualifications:

• 15+ years of experience in the software industry, including leadership roles (e.g., Director, Head of Engineering) managing globally distributed teams.
• 10+ years’ experience managing and scaling engineering and architecture organizations across multiple international locations.
• 5+ years of proven hands-on experience with blockchain technologies, including Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), smart contracts, digital asset custody, and cryptographic principles.
• Experience with both private and public blockchain networks.
• Significant experience in Financial Technology (FinTech).
• Extensive knowledge of digital assets, market trends, and related regulatory developments.
• Strong and diverse technical background with the ability to quickly learn new technologies and influence engineering decisions.
• Vast experience with cloud architectures, especially public cloud offerings.
• Excellent communication, leadership, organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Financial industry experience required; Securities Services/Custody background is a plus.

Education:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent work experience.