Senior Director, Lead Engineer & Architect (Full Stack / Blockchain)

London Source: WhatJobs

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Overview

In this role you architect and own a new high-profile platform blending web apps, distributed services and distributed ledger tech. You lead a hands-on, growing team of full-stack engineers, shaping the technical direction and code quality. You design scalable, secure, and maintainable systems with clear APIs and governance. You collaborate with business stakeholders to translate processes into a technical roadmap and drive engineering excellence across CI/CD, testing, and observability. You stay abreast of digital assets trends to inform platform evolution and production readiness.

Pay / Benefits

competitive compensation
comprehensive benefits
wellbeing programs
global resources/tools
paid leave including volunteer time

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end technical architecture for a new platform combining web apps, distributed services and distributed ledger tech
Lead and grow a hands-on team of full-stack engineers, setting direction, mentoring, and coding
Design and build front-end/back-end components and integrate with smart contracts and ledger layer
Define and evolve architecture for usability, scalability, performance, security and resilience
Shape platform integration with internal/external parties via well-documented APIs aligned with enterprise standards
Partner with product owners, business analysts, scrum masters and senior stakeholders to translate processes into a technical roadmap
Drive engineering excellence across automated testing, CI/CD, code review, observability and secure-by-design practices
Represent platform in architecture governance forums and coordinate with platform/security/infrastructure/enterprise teams to scale from MVP to production
Stay current with digital assets and distributed ledger developments to evaluate value for the platform and business

Key requirements

Extensive experience in financial services technology with senior technical leadership of complex platforms
Hands-on architect and engineer who writes production code while leading teams
Delivery experience on blockchain or distributed ledger projects, including smart contract development and security/testing/operations
Broad full-stack experience across multiple back-end and front-end frameworks, with ability to select appropriate tools
Deep knowledge of distributed/microservice architectures, modular front-end architectures, reactive UX and API-first design
Experience designing for high availability, scalability and resilience including containerised and cloud-native deployment
Strong command of modern CI/CD, automated testing strategies and DevOps practices
Experience in Agile environments with balance between delivery pressure and architectural health
Excellent communication and stakeholder management to influence senior technology and business leaders