Solution Architect – Enterprise Services (Financial Crime)
We are seeking a Solution Architect – Enterprise Services (Financial Crime) to shape and govern the next generation of Financial Crime capabilities, including Transaction Screening, Monitoring, pKYC/pKYB, Sanctions, CDD, EDD and Customer Risk Assessment.
This role is pivotal in protecting the bank, its customers and the broader financial system by delivering robust, scalable and compliant FinCrime solutions.
Responsibilities
- Architect and govern end-to-end Financial Crime solutions across the full lifecycle, ensuring scalability, robustness and regulatory compliance
- Translate business, regulatory and compliance requirements into practical, implementable architectures
- Set architectural direction for AML transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, fraud prevention and risk scoring
- Lead the definition of target-state architectures and multi-year roadmaps for Financial Crime systems
- Contribute to architectural assessments in the context of mergers and acquisitions
- Ensure consistency with enterprise architecture principles, patterns and governance
- Serve as a trusted architecture advisor to CIO, Financial Crime Compliance, Operations and Data teams
- Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure solutions align with architecture standards
- Represent architecture in regulatory, audit and risk forums as required
- Conduct peer reviews and validate designs from engineering teams to uphold architectural integrity
- Oversee decommissioning, data archival and migration approaches in line with governance
- Promote secure, compliant design patterns aligned with Financial Crime regulatory obligations
- Champion architectural best practices across squads and Agile delivery teams
- Mentor engineering and design peers to foster a culture of quality, innovation and ownership
- Demonstrate leadership through thought partnership, problem-solving and decision-making
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience as a Solution Architect within complex financial services environments
- Strong knowledge of core Financial Crime domains such as AML, sanctions, transaction monitoring, screening, KYC/KYB, EDD and customer risk scoring
- Proven ability to design functional and logical architectures, system interaction models and integration patterns
- Experience with RESTful API design, versioning and messaging or event-driven architectures
- Hands-on experience producing As-Is and Target architectures, roadmaps and transition states
- Experience ensuring solutions comply with enterprise-level architectural frameworks, standards and governance
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to influence decisions and lead discussions with compliance, technology and operational leaders
- Delivery-focused, pragmatic and comfortable working independently in fast-moving environments
- Evidence of ownership, initiative and thought leadership
Nice to have
- Knowledge of BIAN, TOGAF, ArchiMate or C4 modelling
- Experience with Avolution Abacus or similar architecture tools
- Familiarity with microservices, API integration patterns and cloud platforms such as AWS
- Exposure to global banking, Financial Crime transformation programmes or regulatory change portfolios
