Financial crime risk management, AML solutions Architect

Financial Crime Risk Management, AML Solutions Architect

Location and Work Status: Must be Alpharetta based or willing to relocate. Must be a US citizen or authorized to work in the US without requiring any sponsorship. Alpharetta GA- 5 days on site

Position Summary: We are seeking an experienced Sr. Application Architect to lead the development of a multi-tenant SaaS product in the Financial Crimes domain. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in Anti-Money Laundering, Case Management, and Regulatory Filings, with proven experience in multi-tenant product development. Expertise in Azure and Kubernetes-based hosting is highly desirable. This role involves close collaboration with product, technical development, and platform teams to design and develop solution patterns for an analytical compliance product. The Sr. Application Architect will drive solution architecture and development aligned with product evolution and manage tenant migrations from the current state to the desired future state.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and Planning: Develop architectural blueprints for applications, define system requirements and functional specifications, ensure scalability, security, and efficiency, and translate business needs into technical solutions
• Technology Selection: Evaluate and select appropriate technologies, frameworks, and tools for application development, and drive the adoption of the latest technologies and trends
• Collaboration and Communication: Work closely with stakeholders, communicate architectural strategies and decisions to the technical team and executives, and provide documentation, training, and support to the organization
• Development Oversight: Oversee the application development team to ensure adherence to architectural standards and best practices, monitor and review code quality, performance, security, and scalability, and resolve technical issues and challenges
• Problem Solving: Analyze technical and business problems, recommend solutions, and identify and mitigate potential risks
• Documentation: Document application architecture, design decisions, and development processes

Skills and Qualifications:

• Educational Background: Bachelors degree in business, Computer Science, Finance, or a related field. A masters degree is a plus.
• Experience: 10+ years of application architecture experience, with product design, development, modernization and transformation programs.
• Software Architecture SaaS Software Architecture: Strong understanding of microservices architecture, serverless functions, event-driven architecture, and other relevant patterns.
• SaaS Business Models: SaaS Development Platforms API Design: Experience with designing and implementing RESTful APIs and other types of APIs including for real time low latency uses
• Technical & Compliance Knowledge (Desired to have): Strong understanding of financial crime risk management, AML solutions, and transaction monitoring platforms. Experience working with AI-driven AML solutions, behavioral analytics, and risk-scoring models.
• Agile & Product Development Experience: Proven experience working with Agile methodologies (Scrum, SAFe). Excellent change management, communication, and training skills. Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines
• Communication & Stakeholder Management: Strong verbal and written communication skills to convey product vision, requirements, and strategic roadmaps.
• Desired tools and techniques: Cloud Technologies Experience with Azure is a must, familiarity with AWS, GCP are a plus. Programming Languages - Proficiency in languages like Java, Python, JavaScript, C#, and Go, depending on the SaaS platform and stack. Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)