Technical Architect, DLT & DA

Role Overview: As a Digital Assets Platform (DAP) Technology Solution Architect at Standard Chartered Bank, you will be a key member of the DLT Hive, responsible for defining, governing, and guiding end-to-end technology solutions across Digital Asset, Tokenization, Payments, and Financial Market use cases. Your role will involve acting as a bridge between CIB enterprise architecture and DAP delivery squads, working as a trusted business partner to manage multiple programs and projects within this domain. You will need to create and nurture relationships with various stakeholders including business partners, technology heads, operations, and risk governance. Key Responsibilities: - Define and drive the architecture strategy and technology roadmap for DLT and Digital Assets platforms, ensuring alignment with broader Business Platforms and CIB Enterprise Architecture roadmap. - Advocate and communicate the global digital architecture vision and strategy across business, technology, and architecture stakeholders, ensuring consistent adoption of standards, patterns, and principles. - Articulate the value of "Digital" and embed it into the target architecture and solution design, driving outcomes related to revenue enablement, cost efficiency, and superior client experience. - Maintain a deep understanding of external industry and peer bank architecture trends, including Digital Assets, tokenization platforms, smart contracts, blockchain infrastructure, and Payments and Financial Markets innovation. - Build and foster an architecture and engineering excellence culture by promoting system thinking, reusable architecture patterns, and design standards. - Drive a modern approach to architecture-led engineering excellence, enabling modular, API-first, and event-driven architectures, cloud-native design patterns, and consistent architecture governance. - Enable and strengthen a scalable, squad-based operating model by defining reference architectures, ensuring design consistency, and supporting agile delivery through architecture governance. - Define and govern end-to-end solution architecture across Digital Asset platforms including tokenization, custody, blockchain, APIs, and integration layers. - Translate business requirements into scalable, secure, and compliant technology designs aligned with enterprise architecture and regulatory standards. - Lead and guide teams on architecture patterns, cloud-native design, and blockchain solutions, resolving complex technical challenges. Qualifications Required: - 10+ years of experience in banking/financial services technology, with strong exposure to Digital Assets, DLT, Payments, or Financial Markets platforms. - Proven ability to translate business strategy into target architecture, solution designs, and technology roadmaps aligned to enterprise architecture standards. - Strong understanding of secure architecture principles, including IAM, MFA, encryption, API security, and regulatory controls for client-facing platforms. - Demonstrated experience in leading complex architecture initiatives across multiple teams, stakeholders, and technology domains. - Proficiency in end-to-end solution architecture and technology engineering, cloud-native, API-first, and DevOps-enabled architectures, modern architecture patterns, frameworks, and integration models. - Solid understanding of cryptography concepts, blockchain protocols, security principles, consensus mechanisms, and emerging technologies. About Standard Chartered: Standard Chartered Bank is an international bank committed to making a positive difference for its clients, communities, and employees. They value diversity, inclusion, and innovation, offering competitive salary and benefits, flexible working options, proactive wellbeing support, continuous learning culture, and an inclusive environment where everyone feels respected and can realize their full potential. Role Overview: As a Digital Assets Platform (DAP) Technology Solution Architect at Standard Chartered Bank, you will be a key member of the DLT Hive, responsible for defining, governing, and guiding end-to-end technology solutions across Digital Asset, Tokenization, Payments, and Financial Market use cases. Your role will involve acting as a bridge between CIB enterprise architecture and DAP delivery squads, working as a trusted business partner to manage multiple programs and projects within this domain. You will need to create and nurture relationships with various stakeholders including business partners, technology heads, operations, and risk governance. Key Responsibilities: - Define and drive the architecture strategy and technology roadmap for DLT and Digital Assets platforms, ensuring alignment with broader Business Platforms and CIB Enterprise Architecture roadmap. - Advocate and communicate the global digital architecture vision and strategy across business, technology, and architecture stakeholders, ensuring consistent adoption of standards, pat