Cloud & Digital Assets Platform Engineering Lead

Position Overview

We are seeking a highly experienced Executive Director, Cloud Infrastructure & Digital Assets Platform Engineering, with deep hands-on AWS and GCP infrastructure expertise, plus blockchain, tokenization and distributed systems. This role will define, build, and advance cloud and digital asset platform strategy across the Wealth Management and Investment Management Technology organization.

This individual will serve as the senior technical authority responsible for architecture, engineering standards, platform modernization, cloud governance, and delivery of enterprise-scale cloud and digital asset solutions as teams transition business-critical workloads to cloud platforms. The role requires deep technical knowledge of cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, infrastructure automation, DevSecOps practices, distributed systems, and modern application architecture.

The ideal candidate combines strong executive technical leadership with hands-on engineering experience, driving innovation while delivering secure, scalable, and resilient platforms. This leader will collaborate closely with product, enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, infrastructure engineering, and platform teams to establish scalable cloud foundations and accelerate cloud and digital asset adoption while ensuring alignment with security, compliance, resiliency, and operational standards.

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Platform Strategy & Engineering (AWS and GCP)

• Provide hands-on technical leadership for the design, implementation, and evolution of the firm's AWS and GCP platform capabilities, including multi-cloud and hybrid operating models.

• Define and drive the architecture, technology roadmap, and technical strategy for cloud and digital asset platforms.

• Establish cloud architecture standards, guardrails, best practices, and reusable platform patterns across AWS and GCP.

• Partner with engineering teams to establish secure, scalable, and resilient cloud landing zones on AWS and GCP.

• Evaluate and recommend cloud services, infrastructure patterns, and operating models that align with business and technology objectives.

• Own long-term cloud modernization and transformation roadmaps.

• Design and deliver blockchain-enabled platforms, tokenization solutions, and digital asset lifecycle services.

• Provide hands-on leadership across microservices, distributed systems, blockchain integrations, and Web3 technologies.

• Define integration patterns for public, private, and permissioned blockchain networks.

• Establish best practices for smart contracts, blockchain security, governance, and operational support.

• Provide technical leadership on distributed ledger technologies and digital asset platform architecture.

• Evaluate emerging blockchain, digital asset, and cloud technologies to drive innovation and modernization.

• Champion Automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices using Terraform and related frameworks across AWS and GCP.

• Develop reusable cloud infrastructure modules, templates, based on standards and reference architectures.

• Promote automated provisioning, policy enforcement, compliance validation, and operational efficiency.

• Exposure to AI-assisted engineering tools and cloud-native AI offerings, Agent, skill and other resource development using AI

• Communicate technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Influence strategic technology decisions through technical expertise and thought leadership.

• Lead architecture reviews and establish standards for scalability, security, resiliency, and performance for cloud and digital asset initiatives.

• Guide teams through rehosting, replatforming, refactoring, and cloud-native modernization initiatives.

• Mentor engineers and architects on cloud technologies, automation, and modern engineering practices to develop high-performing engineering teams.

• Build trusted relationships across application teams, engineering leadership, cybersecurity, risk, and infrastructure organizations.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline; advanced degree preferred.

• 15+ years of software and infrastructure engineering experience, including building and supporting enterprise-scale cloud, blockchain, and digital asset solutions.

• Hands-on cloud infrastructure experience on both AWS and GCP, including enterprise-scale platforms and landing zones.

• Strong understanding of tokenization, smart contracts, and distributed ledger technologies.

• Strong understanding of networking, security, identity and access management, and cloud governance.

• Familiarity with financial services, capital markets, digital custody, or regulated environments.

• Exposure to cloud security frameworks, compliance requirements, and risk management practices.

• Experience with platform engineering and self-service cloud enablement models.

• Experience with public, private, and permissioned blockchain networks and Web3 technologies.

• Relevant cloud certifications (AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional, Google Professional Cloud Architect, or equivalent).

• Understanding of multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud operating models.

• Amazon Web Services (AWS) - hands-on: VPC, IAM, Route 53, Elastic Load Balancing, EC2, S3, EKS, CloudWatch

• Google Cloud Platform (GCP) - hands-on: VPC, IAM, Cloud DNS, Cloud Load Balancing, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Cloud Monitoring & Logging

• Blockchain, tokenization, and distributed ledger technologies

• Smart contracts, blockchain security, and governance

• Public, private, and permissioned blockchain integration patterns

• Web3 technologies and digital asset lifecycle services

• Digital custody in regulated environments

• Python/GoLang, Shell Scripting, APIs and Automation Frameworks