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Technical & Solution Architect (Distributed Ledger / Regulated Financial Services)
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Hybrid · London, United Kingdom
Experience
3 years
Job description
Hands-on technical leadership role documenting and evolving the design of a distributed ledger-based post-trade platform in regulated financial services, starting as technical documentation lead and growing into a Technical & Solution Architect.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Hybrid · London, United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
What you'll do
- Maintain and improve the existing documentation framework
- Produce and maintain technical documentation for the core product: how its business capabilities have been implemented, how it can be deployed and operated by clients, and how it should evolve to meet new business requirements
- Design scalable and secure distributed solutions in regulated environments
- Define and evolve system architecture, APIs, and integration patterns
- Apply appropriate software design patterns and architectural principles
- Contribute to product hosting and capacity planning decisions
- Ensure auditability, resilience, and operational robustness
- Work with distributed ledger technologies and smart contracts
- Design models for tokenised assets, natively digital assets, atomic settlement, DvP and RvP mechanisms, and central bank digital currency (CBDC) integration concepts
- Evaluate trade-offs between on-chain and off-chain components
- Translate regulatory and market structure requirements into technical documentation and design
- Understand settlement models and post-trade infrastructure
- Work within business frameworks such as CSDR and GDPR
- Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to engineers, product management, clients, and regulators
- Tailor messaging to different audiences
- Use structured thinking and persuasive communication to amplify the impact of technology
- Contribute to technical documentation and client materials
What we're looking for
- Strong experience designing and documenting software products
- Solid understanding of distributed systems principles
- Familiarity with tokenisation and digital asset concepts
- Good understanding of API design (REST, event-driven architectures, etc.)
- Understanding of post-trade processes
- Familiarity with CSDR, central securities depositories, DvP and RvP models, and atomic settlement
- Appreciation of regulatory constraints in financial infrastructure
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Ability to adjust technical depth depending on audience
- Structured and persuasive thinking
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity
- Ambition to grow into a Technical & Solution Architect role
- Ownership mindset and startup resilience
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About Delta Capita
Delta Capita Group (a member of the Prytek Group) is a global managed services, consulting, and solutions provider with a unique combination of experience in Financial Services and technology innovation capability.
Mission
To reinvent the financial services value chain providing technology based mutualized services for financial institutions for non-differentiating service.
Key facts
- Financial Services
- Member of the Prytek Group
- Global managed services, consulting, and solutions provider