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Financial Crime Architect Lead
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Financial Crime Architecture Lead
Location: London (Hybrid)
Employment Type: Permanent
Shape the Future of Financial Crime Technology
We're seeking an experienced Financial Crime Architecture Lead to define and drive the target-state architecture for a major financial services organisation undergoing significant transformation.
This is a strategic leadership role focused on creating a modern, integrated financial crime technology ecosystem spanning client onboarding, screening, transaction monitoring, client risk management, workflow orchestration, data platforms, and AI-enabled capabilities.
You will work closely with senior stakeholders across Technology, Risk, Compliance, Data, and Operations to deliver a scalable, resilient, and future-ready architecture that enhances regulatory compliance while improving operational efficiency.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end architecture strategy for financial crime technology capabilities.
- Design and implement a unified architecture covering data, workflow, decisioning, and user experience layers.
- Lead architecture assessments and platform rationalisation initiatives across multiple enterprise applications.
- Define integration patterns, API standards, event-driven architectures, and data governance frameworks.
- Shape AI-enabled financial crime capabilities including alert optimisation, case investigation support, and anomaly detection.
- Establish architecture guardrails covering security, resilience, auditability, regulatory traceability, and model governance.
- Influence vendor selection and platform strategy through architecture leadership and technical due diligence.
- Drive alignment between business priorities, regulatory obligations, and enterprise technology strategy.
- Act as the senior architecture authority within governance and transformation programmes.
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What We're Looking For
- Significant architecture leadership experience within regulated financial services environments.
- Strong understanding of Financial Crime domains including:
- Anti-Money Laundering (AML)
- Sanctions Screening
- PEP & Adverse Media Screening
- Client Risk Rating
- Transaction Monitoring
- Case Management & Alert Triage
- Expertise in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, and platform transformation.
- Experience designing complex integrations using REST APIs, event-driven patterns, and modern cloud technologies.
- Strong knowledge of CRM, workflow, and data platform architectures.
- Ability to engage and influence senior stakeholders across technology and business functions.
- Experience balancing strategic architectural direction with incremental agile delivery.
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Technical Experience
We are particularly interested in candidates with experience across:
- Enterprise data platforms and analytics environments
- Cloud-native architecture and security design
- API-led and event-driven integration patterns
- Data governance, lineage, and quality frameworks
- DevSecOps and modern engineering practices
- Python-enabled automation and analytics solutions
- AI, Machine Learning, and Generative AI architecture
- Responsible AI, explainability, and model governance controls
Why Apply?
This is a rare opportunity to play a pivotal role in defining the long-term financial crime technology strategy for a complex financial services organisation. You'll influence enterprise-wide architecture decisions, help shape AI-enabled capabilities, and create a platform foundation that supports future regulatory and business growth.
Location: London (Hybrid Working)
Type: Permanent
Salary: Competitive + Benefits + Bonus
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