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# Director, Digital Assets

- **Company:** Tradeweb
- **Location:** Amsterdam, Netherlands
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Software System Penetration Testing, Digital Assets, BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)
- **Published:** October 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/5BCB2BF9215842299B20618FCE4F7C32/job/

## About the Role

* Significant experience in digital asset operations, post-trade, or delivery within financial market infrastructure, a custodian, a CSD, or a sell-side or buy-side operations function.
 * A track record of taking complex platforms or products live, ideally in a role that spanned both delivery and steady-state operations.
 * Working knowledge of distributed ledger technology and tokenisation, and a clear grasp of the asset leg, cash leg, custody model and settlement lifecycle.
 * Comfort operating in a regulated setting, with awareness of the frameworks that govern digital securities, including sandbox and transitional regimes.
 * Experience of senior management accountability and governance within a regulated financial institution, including policy decisions, risk oversight and reporting to a board or equivalent governing body.
 * The knowledge, experience, professional conduct and integrity required to pass the AFM's suitability and reliability assessment.
 * Strong stakeholder management across internal functions and external counterparties, and the credibility to hold both to account.
 * Excellent judgement under pressure, sharp incident-management instincts, and a habit of driving actions to closure.

Desirable

 * Direct exposure to tokenised securities, digital cash or settlement initiatives.
 * Familiarity with production support and incident frameworks in a live digital asset trading or settlement environment.
 * Experience coordinating penetration testing, upgrades and change management on mission-critical systems.

## Description

Delivery and go-live readiness

 * Own go-live readiness across the firm's digital asset workstreams, including scaling readiness as volumes and participants grow.
 * Plan and coordinate integration and production testing end to end, from test design through execution and sign-off.
 * Track deliverables and dependencies across internal teams and external parties, and keep the critical path visible and current.
 * Manage upgrade, penetration test and implementation planning, and the operational readiness that sits behind each.
 * Make sure actions across digital asset projects are picked up, owned, progressed and closed, with nothing left to drift.

Operational ownership at go-live

 * Stand up and run the day-to-day operating procedures for the platform once live.
 * Act as the operational owner for first-line support and incident coordination, including escalation, communication and post-incident follow-up.
 * Oversee the execution of participant and client onboarding, working with the teams responsible for eligibility, setup and enablement.
 * Build the operational controls, monitoring and governance appropriate to a regulated digital asset environment.

Governance and policymaker responsibilities

 * Set and oversee policy for the entity's digital asset activities, within the agreed allocation of policymaker responsibilities.
 * Exercise independent judgement on launch readiness, material changes, operational risks and incident escalation.
 * Provide clear reporting to the Board on performance, risks, control weaknesses and remediation, and escalate matters requiring Board decisions.
 * Work with Compliance, Risk and Legal to translate regulatory requirements into operational policies and decisions, and support engagement with the AFM.