Financial Crime Solution Architect

The Financial Crime Solution Architect provides end to end architectural leadership across UK's Financial Crime technology landscape. The role supports both Business as Usual / Book of Work delivery and strategic change, including the TSB Financial Crime migration (Project Sparrow), ensuring solutions are secure, compliant, resilient and aligned to architecture standards. JOB RESPONSIBILITIES / ROLE Key Accountabilities • Define and govern solution architecture designs (HLD/LLD) across Financial Crime capabilities, including Transaction Screening, Name Screening, Monitoring, KYC/KYB, Case Management and Data. • Provide architectural oversight for new initiatives, remediation activity, platform upgrades and technical debt reduction within the Financial Crime Book of Work. • Act as a core architecture contributor to the TSB Financial Crime migration, supporting data migration, archival strategies, integration patterns and regulatory compliant design decisions. • Ensure solutions align to target architecture, security standards, data policies and regulatory expectations (e.g. PRA, FCA, ECB). • Identify, manage and escalate architecture risks and dependencies, contributing to programme RAIDs and governance forums. • Collaborate with Product Owners, Engineering, Data, Security, Risk and Business stakeholders to ensure effective and timely delivery MANDATORY SKILLS • Proven experience as a Solution Architect in Financial Crime, Risk or highly regulated banking environments. • Strong knowledge of Financial Crime domains (AML, Sanctions, Screening, Monitoring, KYC/KYB). • Experience designing solutions involving complex data, legacy platforms and regulatory constraints. • Strong understanding of cloud, on prem and hybrid architectures. • Experience operating within formal architecture governance and assurance frameworks. NICE TO HAVE SKILLS • Experience with large scale bank migrations (e.g. TSB). • Familiarity with platforms such as Actimize, Appian and enterprise data platforms. • Architecture certification (e.g. TOGAF). EXPERIENCE +4 YEARS as Solution architect