Digital Assets Solution Architect

Job#: 3059258

Job Description:

Digital Assets Architecture, Google Cloud Platform & Enterprise Integration
Role Summary

Responsible for defining the end-to-end architecture for KeyBank's digital asset capabilities. This role converts business, product, risk, security, compliance, and operational requirements into secure, scalable, resilient, and supportable designs spanning Google Cloud Platform, internal core and host applications, enterprise services, blockchain networks, and selected vendors. The architect guides delivery from design and vendor evaluation through implementation, testing, production readiness, and operational handoff, providing engineers with clear, buildable direction that will continue on with production support management..
About the Team

The Digital Assets technology team is establishing the architecture and technical foundation for KeyBank digital asset capabilities. The team partners across product, architecture, engineering, cybersecurity, risk, compliance, operations, internal application teams, and external Saas vendors to turn emerging technology into controlled, supportable banking solutions.
Core Responsibilities

Define the target-state architecture and phased build-out roadmap across Google Cloud Platform, internal systems, enterprise integration services, data platforms, blockchain networks, and vendor applications.

Translate requirements into architecture diagrams, data and sequence flows, interface patterns, deployment models, nonfunctional requirements, and implementation guidance.

Lead architecture decisions and design reviews across cloud, application, integration, data, network, IAM, cybersecurity, resiliency, and production support.

Establish system boundaries, component responsibilities, data ownership, transaction flows, security controls, and operational accountabilities.

Design secure Google Cloud Platform environments and connectivity, including networking, compute and containers, identity, secrets, logging, monitoring, backup, recovery, and environment promotion.

Define secure API, event, messaging, webhook, managed-file-transfer, batch, and real-time integrations with internal applications and selected digital asset vendors.

Apply digital asset expertise to tokenized deposits, stablecoins, wallets, custody, blockchain networks, smart contracts, signing, key management, settlement, and on-chain/off-chain flows.

Partner with architecture, engineering, security, IAM, network, data, operations, risk, compliance, and application owners to align designs and controls.

Lead technical vendor evaluations covering fit, integration complexity, security, resiliency, scalability, data handling, operability, portability, and concentration risk.

Document options, trade-offs, assumptions, constraints, risks, dependencies, technical debt, recommendations, and decisions.

Guide engineering through implementation, testing, deployment, and stabilization; establish reference patterns and acceptance criteria, review code and configuration approaches, and resolve design ambiguity.

Ensure designs address performance, capacity, availability, recoverability, auditability, traceability, reconciliation, exception handling, retention, monitoring, and support.

Support proofs of concept, architecture validation, production-readiness reviews, release and cutover planning, operational handoff, and post-production issue resolution.

Manage 24x7 production support
Required Knowledge and Experience

Experience as a Solution, Application, Cloud, or Integration Architect in a complex enterprise environment, preferably financial services or another highly regulated industry.

Strong knowledge of cloud and distributed-system architecture, integration and data flows, security architecture, and nonfunctional design.

Architecture-level Google Cloud Platform knowledge, including VPC networking, IAM, service accounts, workload identity, Secret Manager, Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, GKE or Cloud Run, and secure connectivity.

Working knowledge of Terraform, GitLab, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, containers, Kubernetes, scripting, automation, monitoring, and observability.

Practical digital asset knowledge covering blockchain networks, tokenized deposits, stablecoins, wallets, custody, smart contracts, transaction signing, key management, settlement, and blockchain data.

Experience integrating cloud and vendor capabilities with internal core or host systems through secure APIs, events, messaging, webhooks, and batch or file interfaces.

Knowledge of OAuth 2.0, mutual TLS, certificates, encryption, private connectivity, firewall and allowlist controls, workload identity, and secrets management.

Ability to create clear architecture artifacts and convert business, risk, compliance, security, and operational needs into actionable designs.

Experience evaluating vendors, troubleshooting complex cross-platform issues, and leading discussions across business, technology, control, and vendor stakeholders.

High proficiency using AI assistants to accelerate architecture analysis, documentation, engineering, and delivery activities.

Experience designing secure Google Cloud Platform environments connected to internal applications, hosted platforms, and external vendor services.

Knowledge and experience managing production support and a production support team.

Preferred Skills

Experience delivering digital asset, payments, treasury, deposits, custody, ledger, or blockchain solutions in a regulated financial institution.

Familiarity with permissioned enterprise blockchain platforms, ledger integration, reconciliation, exception handling, resiliency testing and disaster recovery

Experience with architecture governance, threat modeling, formal design reviews, architecture repositories, diagramming tools, and ServiceNow.

Success Outcomes

An approved target-state architecture and phased implementation roadmap.

A secure, scalable, resilient, and supportable Google Cloud Platform foundation.

Clear system boundaries, integration patterns, interface requirements, data flows, and engineering guidance.

End-to-end transaction traceability, reconciliation, monitoring, exception handling, and recovery built into the design.

Complete architecture and production-readiness artifacts that reduce ambiguity, security gaps, delivery risk, and rework.

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