Senior Analyst - Digital Assets Security

Job Description:

Note: Fidelity will not provide immigration sponsorship for this position

The Role 

We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Security Analyst – Blockchain, Digital Assets & Smart Contract Security to join our Information Security organization. This role will help secure the firm's adoption of blockchain technologies, digital assets, tokenization platforms, and smart contract-enabled solutions. 

As a subject matter expert in blockchain security, you will partner with engineering, architecture, risk, compliance, and product teams to assess emerging technologies and ensure they are deployed securely and in alignment with the firm's risk appetite, regulatory obligations, and security standards. 

• Lead security assessments, threat modeling, and architecture reviews for smart contracts, decentralized applications (dApps), blockchain infrastructure, and digital asset platforms, identifying and driving remediation of vulnerabilities such as reentrancy, access control weaknesses, oracle manipulation, flash loan attack vectors, MEV/front-running risks, and governance or upgradeability flaws before production deployments 
• Evaluate the security of blockchain implementations, including digital asset custody solutions, wallet technologies, key management controls, custodians, validator nodes, node gateways, APIs, oracles, cross-chain solutions, tokenization platforms, and staking initiatives, providing recommendations for secure design, implementation, and operation. 
• Review third-party audit findings and validate remediation efforts while partnering with engineering, product, architecture, and security teams to provide security guidance throughout the development lifecycle and prior to production deployment. 

• Develop and support security governance, standards, controls, and compliance requirements for blockchain and digital asset technologies, collaborating with Legal, Compliance, Enterprise Risk, and Audit teams to support regulatory examinations, control assessments, and internal audits. 
• Monitor emerging blockchain threat and industry attack trends, assess impact to the organization, and recommend proactive security controls and risk mitigation strategies.  
• Investigate blockchain-related security incidents and suspicious on-chain activity, perform root-cause analyses, and drive corrective actions  

The Expertise and Skills You Bring 

• 7+ years of experience in Information Security, Application Security, Security Engineering, or Cyber Risk and a bachelor’s degree in a related field 
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with blockchain, digital assets, or smart contract security 
• Experience conducting security assessments and threat modeling exercises 
• Strong understanding of secure software development practices and application security principles 
• Experience communicating technical risk to both technical and non-technical stakeholders 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Hands-on experience reviewing Solidity smart contracts 
• Familiarity with Ethereum, EVM-based platforms, Layer-2 technologies, and blockchain infrastructure 
• Experience assessing DeFi protocols, tokenization platforms, or digital asset custody solutions 
• Knowledge of cryptography, public key infrastructure, digital signatures, and key management  
• Experience using security assessment tools such as: Slither, Mythril, Echidna, Hardhat, or Foundry 
• Experience in financial services, banking, asset management, fintech, or capital markets 
• Familiarity with cloud security platforms specifically, AWS 
• Understanding of regulatory and risk management frameworks 
• One or more of the following certifications is preferred: CISSP, CISM, CRISC, CCSP, OSCP, GIAC certifications, or Blockchain security certifications 

The Team 

Fidelity Digital Asset Management [FDAM] is building an investment platform offering digital asset products and services designed to meet the growing needs of Fidelity’s retail customers, intermediaries, and institutional clients.  

The Investment Risk Management team is part of the business function at FDAM and is responsible for providing independent oversight of risks associated with the creation, management, and operation of digital asset investment products with broader adoption and institutionalization of digital assets as a key driver. The team's mandate covers trading, portfolio management, settlement, custody, securi