Description
We are seeking a Principal Wallet Security Engineer – Digital Assets to join our team at Barclays. You will play a crucial role in defining and delivering the security architecture for Barclays' wallet platform, establishing the cryptographic trust foundation that enables clients to securely hold, control, transfer, and settle digital assets across both permissioned financial networks and open blockchain ecosystems.
The successful candidate will have a strong background in designing and securing institutional wallet platforms, with expertise in Hardware Security Modules (HSMs), Multi-Party Computation (MPC), enterprise key management, and secure signing architectures.
Key responsibilities:
- Develop and evolve the bank's technology architecture through relevant solutions, strategies, and execution plans aligned to business and technology objectives.
- Collaborate with stakeholders, including Enterprise Architecture teams and other developers, to provide subject matter expertise and share knowledge.
- Motivate and lead a diverse collection of technologists, business and operations teams, and enterprise leaders to align business & technology strategy & standards.
- Assess new technologies to address current and future business needs.
- Determine the optimal solutions while balancing continuous requirements imposed by compliance, governance, security, and funding.
- Monitor and analyze the performance, resiliency, and stability of applications to identify and resolve issues.
Requirements:
- Proven experience designing and securing institutional wallet platforms.
- Deep expertise with Hardware Security Modules (HSMs), Multi-Party Computation (MPC), enterprise key management, and secure signing architectures.
- Hands-on experience implementing key lifecycle controls, secrets management, certificate and PKI services, network segmentation, privileged access management, and infrastructure hardening within highly regulated environments.
- Comfortable leading threat modeling, attack-path analysis, residual risk assessments, and security architecture reviews.
Nice to have:
- Experience securing wallet infrastructure supporting tokenized deposits, stablecoins, tokenized securities, and other institutional digital asset use cases.
- Knowledge of blockchain transaction flows, wallet policy engines, custody operating models, transaction orchestration, digital asset settlement workflows, and cryptographic authorization controls.
- Understanding of financial services regulatory expectations, operational resilience requirements, audit and assurance processes, and control-by-design technology delivery practices.
As a Principal Engineer - Director, you will be expected to manage a business function, providing significant input to function-wide strategic initiatives, and contribute to and influence policy and procedures for the function.