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The four LEAD behaviours are: L - Listen and be authentic, E - Energise and inspire, A - Align across the enterprise, D - Develop others.\nAll colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship - our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset - to Empower, Challenge and Drive - the operating manual for how we behave.\nThe minimum and maximum salary/rate information above includes only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any another type of compensation or benefits that may be available.\nBarclays employees are eligible for a suite of a competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances.\nThis position is eligible for an incentive award.\nJoin Barclays at the ground floor of a 0-to-1 build as a Principal Wallet Security Engineer - Digital Assets. You will define and deliver 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. This role is responsible for securing the wallet infrastructure, signing services, key management capabilities, and transaction authorization controls that support tokenized deposits, stablecoins, digital cash, tokenized securities, and future digital asset products. Working across engineering, cyber security, infrastructure, risk, and architecture teams, you will help build a secure, resilient, and regulated institutional-grade wallet platform that serves as the gateway between Barclays' core banking ecosystem and emerging digital asset networks.\nTo be successful as a Principal Wallet Security Engineer - Digital Assets, you should:\nBring proven experience designing and securing institutional wallet platforms, including transaction authorization, policy controls, delegated approvals, and cryptographic signing workflows supporting digital asset custody and settlement\nHave deep expertise with Hardware Security Modules (HSMs), Multi-Party Computation (MPC), enterprise key management, and secure signing architectures that protect private keys and signing events across multiple blockchain networks\nDemonstrate hands-on experience implementing key lifecycle controls, secrets management, certificate and PKI services, network segmentation, privileged 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