Job Role: Senior DLT / Smart Contract Engineering Lead (Capital Markets & Banking)
Role Summary:
Lead the design and delivery of enterprise-grade blockchain solutions within regulated financial environments. This role focuses on smart contract engineering, tokenized securities, digital cash integration, and secure, compliant DLT platforms for capital markets, payments, and settlement systems.
Hybrid working:
The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time
Job Role:
Blockchain & Solution Delivery
1. Design and implement distributed ledger solutions for:
2. Capital markets
3. Payments
4. Custody and settlement systems
5. Deliver production-grade blockchain systems for:
6. Banks
7. Financial Market Infrastructures (FMIs)
8. Exchanges and regulated fintechs
9. Integrate on-chain logic with off-chain enterprise systems:
10. Core banking platforms
11. Central Securities Depositories (CSDs)
12. Payment rails
13. Regulatory reporting systems
Smart Contract Engineering
14. Develop, test, audit, and deploy secure Solidity-based smart contracts
15. Implement advanced contract logic for:
16. Asset issuance, transfer, and redemption
17. Lifecycle event management
18. Settlement workflows (DvP, escrow, atomic swaps)
19. Design and implement:
20. Token standards (fungible, NFT, hybrid securities)
21. Gas-optimized smart contract architectures
22. Upgradeable contract patterns
Tokenisation & Digital Cash
23. Build and manage tokenisation frameworks for:
24. Securities and financial instruments
25. Tokenized assets across lifecycle stages
26. Work with digital cash instruments:
27. Stablecoins
28. Tokenized bank deposits
29. On-chain cash leg representations for DvP
30. Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements for on-chain financial products
Blockchain Platforms & Standards
31. Work across both public and permissioned DLT platforms:
32. Ethereum
33. Hyperledger Besu
34. Corda
35. Apply enterprise blockchain standards for:
36. Privacy
37. Interoperability
38. Tokenized securities markets
Security, Custody & Cryptography
39. Ensure secure smart contract design by addressing:
40. Reentrancy attacks
41. Access control vulnerabilities
42. Precision/overflow issues
43. Design custody and wallet solutions using:
44. MPC (Multi-Party Computation)
45. HSM-backed signing
46. Policy-based wallet controls
47. Implement privacy-preserving mechanisms:
48. Permissioned access models
49. Selective disclosure
50. Zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) concepts
Cloud, DevOps & Engineering Excellence
51. Build and deploy cloud-native applications on:
52. AWS, Azure, or GCP
53. Operate containerized systems using:
54. Kubernetes
55. Microservices architectures
56. Implement DevSecOps practices:
57. CI/CD pipelines for smart contracts and backend services
58. Automated testing and security scanning
59. Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
60. Ensure production reliability through:
61. Monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana)
62. Observability frameworks
63. Secure secrets and key management
Job Skills
Experience
64. 12+ years of software engineering experience
65. 4–6+ years of hands-on smart contract development
66. Proven experience in regulated environments (banks, FMIs, exchanges, fintechs)
67. Strong exposure to capital markets and post-trade systems
Core Technical Skills
68. Solidity smart contract development (advanced level)
69. Ethereum, Hyperledger Besu, Corda
70. Token standards (ERC-20, ERC-721, ERC-1155, hybrid models)
71. Smart contract lifecycle management
Financial Domain Knowledge
72. Securities lifecycle management
73. Clearing and settlement processes
74. Corporate actions and custody
75. Delivery vs Payment (DvP) mechanisms
Security & Cryptography
76. Smart contract security best practices
77. MPC, HSM, and wallet architecture
78. Zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP)
79. Selective disclosure and privacy-preserving architectures
Cloud & DevOps
80. AWS / Azure / GCP
81. Kubernetes and containerization
82. CI/CD pipelines
83. Infrastructure as Code
84. Monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana)
System Integration
85. Core banking integration
86. Payment systems and rails
87. Regulatory reporting platforms
88. Hybrid on-chain/off-chain architectures.
We are a Disability Confident Employer:
Capgemini is proud to be a under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme.As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who:
89. Declare they have a disability, and
90. Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.
91. Please opt in during the application process.
Make It Real (what does it mean for you):
92. You’d be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions.
To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.
93. You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini’s ‘learning for life’ mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.
94. You will be joining one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies®, as recognised by Ethisphere® for 13 consecutive years. We live our values by making ethical business choices every day. Working ethically is at the centre of our culture at Capgemini, meaning you will be helping to create a future we can all be proud of.
Why you should consider Capgemini:
Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible. It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. You’ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.
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