Financial Crimes Solution Architect

Invest in your future by being a part of an innovative technology team! Our partner is a financial services organization focused on making a difference in people’s lives and the communities they serve. As an organization founded more than 165 years ago, they now employ 22,000 people dedicated to the company’s values of integrity, ownership, collaboration, curiosity, and candor. Here, you’ll be empowered to build products that revolutionize the way their customers do business.

Employment Requirements

This opportunity is not open to C2C relationships or visa sponsorship.

Job Description

Solu is seeking a Financial Crimes Solution Architect (AML, BSA, KYC, Fraud) to join our team. The Financial Crimes Solution Architect will support an assigned portfolio by architecting and designing comprehensive solutions that meet business and product needs. This role will collaborate with other Solution Architects to develop solutions that align with established architecture standards and principles, leverage common solutions and services, and support financial objectives.

Location/Travel: Eastern or Central time zone preferred. Travel to Buffalo, NY is required approximately every 4-6 weeks, with Sunday night through Thursday night travel preferred. Solu will prepay flights and hotel, and reimburse candidates for eligible meals, Uber, and other travel expenses.

Responsibilities

• Actively participate and collaborate on the design, building, testing and deployment of technology solutions and designs with the assigned Agile teams.
• Collaborate with domain leadership and enterprise architects to understand business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state) and determine corresponding solution designs.
• Assist domain decision-making by working with domain subject matter experts to articulate the value and tradeoffs of the solution options.
• Participate in the creation of enterprise architecture standards and evaluate the quality and compliance of delivered solutions to ensure alignment with those standards.
• Collaborate with stakeholders on initiatives in Agile team ceremonies.
• Produce, enhance, and refine conceptual, logical, and physical solution architecture for strategic initiatives that align with Enterprise Architecture principles and vision.
• Contribute to the research and identification of potential impacts of existing, new, and emerging technologies and trends within a domain.
• Participate in governance activities as required.
• Objectively contribute to the evaluation and resolution of domain specific architecture problems in partnership with domain subject matter experts.
• Assist other enterprise and solution architects to manage and design architecture for dependent products.
• Harness existing technology resources through collaboration to benefit solutioning efforts.
• Understand and adhere to the Company's risk and regulatory standards, policies, and controls in accordance with the Company's Risk Appetite. Identify risk-related issues needing escalation to management.
• Identify risk-related issues needing escalation to management.
• Complete other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 5 years of relevant work experience, or in lieu of a degree, a combined minimum of 9 years higher education and/or relevant work experience.
• Solution Architecture.
• Financial Crimes (AML, BSA, KYC, Fraud).
• Executive Communication Skills.
• Experience with multiple programming languages.
• Ability to work and communicate with various stakeholders at differing levels of the organization.
• Experience in software or service engineering and delivery.
• Ability to research and apply modern technology trends related to technology initiatives.
• Ability to research, evaluate and articulate multiple approaches to solving technical problems.
• Experience in developing and integrating applications using relevant software architecture principles and patterns.

Preferred Qualifications

• Graduate degree in technical discipline
• Experience working in two or more technical roles related to banking technical design.
• Experience in delivering technology and enterprise level presentations.
• Experience working in an Agile environment.
• Industry recognized certification in programming languages and/or cloud technologies.
• Experience working in the financial services industry.

*Solü Technology Partners provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability or genetics.