Digital Assets Innovation Lead
SWIFT
- Experience
- 10+ yrs
- Location
- Manassas, VA, USA
- Job type
- Full-time
Required skills
- blockchains
- distributed applications
- open source protocols
About the role
Lead the development of digital solutions in DeFi and TradFi, focusing on digital assets for cross-border payments. Engage with clients, tackle industry challenges, and innovate new solutions while ensuring customer needs and regulatory compliance are met.
Design compelling solutions, products and services for our clients (central banks, market infrastructures, commercial banks) to enable them to scale use of digital assets and money
Create viable and scalable industry wide models to enable the efficient and effective adoption of digital assets and money
Guide business decisions around Swift's new solutions to ensure that they reflect genuine customer and commercial need, address legal, regulatory and governance considerations, and solve real world challenges in payments
Understand unsolved opportunities and barriers in payments and securities, develop innovative experiments to address them, and work with technical engineers in Innovation to lead the development of novel feature implementation
Work with multiple clients simultaneously to understand where and how our Swift can assist them in meeting their digital objectives
Participate in collaborative industry initiatives, such as standards setting and shared infrastructures, enable those to drive towards valuable outcomes
Serve as a thought leader and a key driver in defining our digital asset and money innovation offerings
Assess the business capabilities and limitations of technology vendors, and, where appropriate, evaluate the benefits and drawbacks of DLT or non-DLT technology
Stay current with technology advancements in the digital assets and money space and identify innovations that can contribute to Swift strategic goals and provide business value, including suggestions for roadmaps where appropriate
About SWIFT
We're the world's leading provider of secure financial messaging services, headquartered in Belgium. We are the way the world moves value – across borders, through cities and overseas. No other organisation can address the scale, precision, pace and trust that this demands, and we're proud to support the global economy.
We're unique too. We were established to find a better way for the global financial community to move value – a reliable, safe and secure approach that the community can trust, completely. We're always striving to be better and are constantly evolving in an ever-changing landscape, without undermining that trust. Five decades on, our vibrant community reflects the complexity and diversity of the financial ecosystem. We innovate diligently, test exhaustively, then implement fast. In a connected and exciting era, our mission has never been more relevant. Swift now has a presence in 200+ countries and legal territories to serve a community of more than 12,000 banks and financial institutions.
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