Financial Crime Solution Architect

Quick Facts

• Role: Solution Architect – Enterprise Services (Financial Crime)
• Focus: Next-generation Financial Crime capabilities (AML, sanctions, KYC/KYB, risk scoring)

Description

You will shape and govern end-to-end Financial Crime solution architecture, ensuring scalability, robustness, and regulatory compliance. The role translates business, regulatory, and compliance requirements into implementable architectures and multi-year roadmaps. You will collaborate across CIO, Financial Crime Compliance, Operations, Data, and engineering teams, and lead design reviews and governance activities.

Responsibilities

• Architect and govern Financial Crime solutions across the full lifecycle
• Define target-state architectures and multi-year roadmaps
• Set architectural direction for AML transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, fraud prevention, and risk scoring
• Translate regulatory/compliance requirements into practical architecture
• Contribute architectural assessments for mergers and acquisitions
• Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture principles, patterns, and governance
• Advise CIO, compliance, operations, and data stakeholders
• Work with engineering teams to ensure solutions meet architecture standards
• Represent architecture in regulatory, audit, and risk forums
• Conduct peer reviews and validate engineering designs
• Oversee decommissioning, data archival, and migration approaches within governance
• Promote secure, compliant design patterns aligned with Financial Crime obligations
• Champion architectural best practices across squads and Agile delivery teams
• Mentor peers and support a culture of quality and ownership

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience as a Solution Architect in complex financial services
• Deep knowledge of Financial Crime domains: AML, sanctions, transaction monitoring/screening, KYC/KYB, EDD, and customer risk scoring
• Proven ability to design functional/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 compliance with enterprise-level architectural frameworks, standards, and governance
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• Delivery-focused and pragmatic; comfortable working independently in fast-moving environments

Benefits

• Stable pay and Employee Stock Purchase Plan with a 15% discount
• Health insurance and multisport benefits; shopping vouchers
• Referral bonuses up to $2,000
• Career development programs, thought leadership, mentoring, soft skills, and well-being programs
• Certifications (Anthropic, Gemini, GCP, Azure, AWS)
• English classes
• Hybrid work model with opportunity to work remotely (within Poland)
• Chance to work abroad up to 60 days annually; business-driven relocation opportunities
• Offices with entertainment and relaxation zones, table tennis and football, free snacks and coffee, plus corporate social and well-being events