Block chain Expert Architect

Job Title: Block chain Expert Architect
Location:: San Leandro, CA (Onsite)

📝 JOB Description:

🏗️ Architecture Resource SOW

✅ Requirements

An Engineer 5, which will be part of the Architecture group in DTI, is a senior technical leader who
combines deep domain expertise with strong strategic thinking to define, guide, and evolve enterprise
and platform architectures. This role requires the ability to design scalable, secure, and resilient
solutions across complex, multi-system environments while influencing technology direction beyond a
single product or team.

In this role, the Engineer 5 maintains awareness of emerging blockchain and Web3-inspired patterns
and ecosystems as inputs into architectural decision-making, while ensuring all solutions remain
grounded in regulated, enterprise-grade design principles, strong governance, and operational rigor
appropriate for a large financial institution.

A successful Engineer 5 demonstrates mastery of architectural patterns, cloud and modern engineering
practices, and non-functional requirements such as performance, resiliency, and security. They are a
trusted advisor to senior leadership, able to translate business strategy into technical direction, lead
cross-functional alignment, mentor other architects and engineers, and drive long-term architectural
consistency and innovation across the organization.

📌 Responsibilities Include

🔹 Provide architectural leadership for blockchain-enabled initiatives, including tokenized deposits,
digital assets, and distributed settlement use cases, ensuring solutions align with bank-grade
security, resiliency, and regulatory expectations.

🔹 Design hybrid architectures that integrate distributed ledger platforms with core banking
systems, payment platforms, data stores, and event-driven microservices.

🔹 Define appropriate on-chain vs off-chain responsibilities, including smart contracts,
orchestration services, API layers, and operational controls.

🔹 Evaluate and guide usage of permissioned distributed ledger technologies, identity and access
models, privacy architectures, and governance structures suitable for regulated environments.

🔹 Familiarity with smart contract concepts as deterministic business rule enforcement, not as
workflow orchestration.

🔹 Experience working across payments, liquidity, settlements, or financial market infrastructures
in large-scale enterprises.

🔹 Establish architectural guardrails and best practices for emerging digital asset and blockchain
capabilities, avoiding vendor lock-in and ensuring long-term interoperability and maintainability.

🔹 Provide thought leadership to engineering teams and stakeholders on where blockchain adds
business value versus where traditional platforms remain more appropriate.