Manager, Digital Assets, TC, FS

Manager, Digital Assets, TC, FS

Location:

London

Other locations:

Primary Location Only

Salary:

Competitive

Date:

Jun 1, 2026

Requisition :

1712362

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Digital assets in the UK are entering a more practical phase, moving beyond pilots towards real products, operating models and market infrastructure. That shift is creating important strategic choices for financial institutions across banking, markets, payments, wealth and asset management. It’s creating phenomenal market momentum and transformation potential.

Within EY’s Financial Services Tech Consulting team, we’re looking to expand our team to help clients navigate this transition and turn momentum into tangible outcomes. You will contribute to the delivery of high profile and complex tech engagements across a wide range of financial services clients.

EY is scaling its Digital Assets Engineering capability within FSO, supporting major financial institutions as they design and build production‑grade distributed ledger (DLT) and tokenisation platforms across markets, payments, custody, and collateral.

We are seeking a hands‑on Digital Assets Manager who combines strong engineering capability with a deep understanding of financial markets and market infrastructure. This role sits at the intersection of software engineering, blockchain/DLT, and institutional finance, and is suited to someone equally comfortable writing code, leading technical delivery, and engaging credibly with front‑office and operations stakeholders.

This is a builder role. You will design architectures, write and review code, lead engineering work streams, and help clients move from PoC to real, regulated digital asset platforms.

Your contribution will play a significant part in helping our clients deliver successful results covering a range of tech projects. There are multiple aspects to the role:

• Design, build, test, and deploy DLT‑and blockchain‑based systems for financial services use cases including tokenisation, digital cash, custody, and settlement.
• Write production‑grade code, primarily in Node.js and associated frameworks (e.g. Express, NestJS), to support APIs, orchestration layers, 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.
• Work across public and permissioned DLTs, integrating smart contracts with backend services and enterprise systems.

• Design end‑to‑end technical architectures covering blockchain/DLT layers, middleware, backend services, cloud infrastructure, and integration with legacy platforms.
• 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 within multi‑disciplinary delivery teams, managing Developers, Engineers, and Analysts.
• Own technical delivery outcomes: code quality, performance, security, documentation, and operational readiness.
• Conduct hands‑on code reviews and actively mentor junior engineers.

• Apply strong understanding of financial products and market structure (e.g. bonds, funds, equities, derivatives, collateral, payments) to ensure technical solutions align with how markets actually operate.
• Design digital asset solutions that fit into real‑world trading, clearing, settlement, custody, and collateral workflows.
• Translate front‑office, operations, and risk requirements into implementable technical designs.

• Act as a credible technical authority in discussions with client architects, engineers, quants, operations teams,…