Solution Architect – Financial Crime (Enterprise Services)

Quick Facts

• Role: Solution Architect – Financial Crime (Enterprise Services)

• Focus areas: AML transaction monitoring, sanctions, pKYC/pKYB, CDD, EDD, customer risk assessment

Description

You will shape and govern end-to-end Financial Crime capabilities, delivering robust, scalable, and compliant solutions that protect the bank, its customers, and the financial system.

You will translate business, regulatory, and compliance requirements into practical architectures, set architectural direction for AML, sanctions screening, fraud prevention, and risk scoring, and define target-state architectures and multi-year roadmaps.

Responsibilities

• Architect and govern end-to-end Financial Crime solutions across the full lifecycle

• Translate regulatory and compliance requirements into implementable architectures

• Set architectural direction for AML transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, fraud prevention, and risk scoring

• Define target-state architectures and multi-year roadmaps for Financial Crime systems

• Contribute to architectural assessments for mergers and acquisitions

• Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture principles, patterns, and governance

• Advise 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 engineering designs 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 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 and versioning, plus 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

• Evidence of ownership, initiative, and thought leadership

Benefits

• Flexible schedule and opportunity to work remotely within Poland

• Chance to work abroad for up to 60 days annually; business-driven relocation opportunities

• Career roadmap, leadership development, career advising, soft skills, and well-being programs

• Certifications (GCP, Azure, AWS) and unlimited access to learning platforms; English classes

• Stable income (employment contract or B2B) and participation in the Employee Stock Purchase Plan

• Health insurance, multisport benefits, and shopping vouchers

• Referral bonuses and corporate, social, and well-being events