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Title: Blockchain Architect

Location: San Francisco, CA (Onsite) Locals only

Responsibilities Include:

• A successful Architect with 10+ years of experience 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.
  
• 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 permission 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.