Manager, Digital Assets, TC, FS

Overview

EY is scaling its Digital Assets Engineering capability within the Financial Services Office, supporting clients in building production‑grade distributed ledger (DLT) and tokenisation platforms across markets, payments, custody, and collateral. This role is a hands‑on Digital Assets Manager – a builder who designs architectures, writes and reviews code, leads delivery, and engages credibly with front‑office and operations stakeholders.

• Design, build, test, and deploy DLT‑based systems for tokenisation, digital cash, custody, and settlement.
• Write production‑grade code primarily in Node.js (Express, NestJS) to support APIs, orchestration, event processing, and integration services.
• Design and implement smart‑contract adjacent services, including transaction lifecycle management, signing orchestration (MPC/HSM), on‑chain/off‑chain state reconciliation, and monitoring.
• Integrate smart contracts with backend services and enterprise systems across public and permissioned DLTs.
• Architect end‑to‑end technical solutions including blockchain layers, middleware, backend, cloud infrastructure, and legacy platform integration.
• Define patterns for security, key management, identity, transaction integrity, observability, and resilience in regulated environments.
• Make pragmatic technology choices balancing scalability, performance, regulatory constraints, and time‑to‑market.
• Lead engineering work streams, manage developers and analysts, own technical delivery outcomes, conduct code reviews, and mentor junior engineers.
• Translate front‑office, operations and risk requirements into implementable technical designs and ensure solutions fit real‑world trading, clearing, settlement, custody and collateral workflows.
• Act as a credible technical authority in discussions with client architects, engineers, quants, operations teams, and product owners; support workshops and deep dives; and partner with Risk, Legal and Compliance specialists to embed controls.

• 5–10 years of backend or platform engineering experience, ideally within financial services or complex distributed systems.
• Strong demonstrable experience building backend services, including REST and event‑driven APIs.
• Proficiency with modern engineering practices: CI/CD, automated testing, containerisation, infrastructure‑as‑code, and cloud‑native delivery.
• Hands‑on delivery of DLT or blockchain solutions.
• Experience with public and/or permissioned blockchains and integrating them into enterprise systems.
• Understanding of smart‑contract interaction models, transaction finality, gas/fee considerations and network constraints.
• Strong understanding of financial markets and market infrastructure (trading, clearing, settlement, custody, collateral and margin workflows).
• Ability to reason about how digital assets and DLT alter or preserve existing market structures.
• Influencing skills, constructive action orientation, and a self‑starting attitude.
• Experience in client‑facing professional services and project‑based environments.
• Capability to coach and guide team members toward career development.

• Competitive remuneration and total rewards package, including flexible working, career development, holidays, health and well‑being, insurance, savings and discounts.
• Continuous learning opportunities and tools to make a meaningful impact.
• Transformative leadership coaching and inclusive culture.