Finance & Risk Lead Architect

Job Title: Finance & Risk Lead Architect

Location: Iselin, NJ

Work Arrangement: Onsite

Employment Type: Contract

Duration: 6+ Months

Domain: Financial Services & Risk Architecture

Pay Rate: $49/hr W2 | $58/hr C2C

Application Deadline: October 20, 2026

SKILLS REQUIRED

Primary (Must-Have):

- Data & Information Architecture | Conceptual, Logical, & Semantic Data Models | Lineage & Governance

- Modern Integration & Platforms | APIs | Event Streaming (Kafka) | ETL/ELT | Cloud Storage (NetApp S3)

Secondary (Good to Have):

- Financial Domain Expertise | Regulatory Reporting (Basel III, CCAR) | Sub-Ledger Modernization

- AI-Embedded Delivery | GenAI | Agentic AI | RAG & Knowledge Graphs | Model Risk & Compliance

POSITION OVERVIEW

Operating within the Finance and Risk Architecture department and reporting directly to the Enterprise Architecture Leadership, this hands-on lead architect role solves critical architectural and data challenges for corporate financial accounting, capital markets, and regulatory compliance. The architect will take complex initiatives from concept through design, architecture, and working prototypes to modernize core financial reporting and risk management systems.

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES

- Own end-to-end architecture for Finance and Risk initiatives, including sub-ledger modernization, corporate accounting, and regulatory reporting.

- Define current-, target-, interim-, and transition-state architectures with actionable roadmaps across data, applications, APIs, and cloud storage.

- Advance information architecture using authoritative sources, data products, data lineage, governance, reconciliation, auditability, and accounting-event models.

- Apply working knowledge of regulatory reporting frameworks (Basel III/Endgame, CCAR, FR Y-9C, FFIEC, Axiom) and financial-accounting event processing.

- Leverage AI/ML, LLM/RAG, and agentic AI to enhance accounting, external reporting, automated reconciliation, controls, and data-quality use cases.

BENEFITS

Medical | Dental | Vision | 401(k)

EEOC Compliance:

We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment.

DISCLAIMER

AI Usage Policy: Pacer Group uses AI to assist in screening applications. Final hiring decisions are made by human recruiters based on qualifications and experience.