Principal AI Architect & Modernization

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Technical Leadership & Architecture

• Define and drive the long-term technology strategy for Financial Crime modernization initiatives.
• Lead architecture and implementation of AI-powered investigation platforms, decisioning engines, and agentic workflows.
• Establish engineering standards, design patterns, and reference architectures across Financial Crime platforms.
• Serve as the highest-level technical reviewer for architecture, security, scalability, resiliency, and performance decisions.
• Lead technical design reviews and influence enterprise architecture direction.

AI & Agentic Engineering

• Design and implement GenAI and Agentic AI solutions for:
• Investigator copilots
• Alert triage and disposition
• Risk assessment
• Entity resolution
• SAR narrative generation
• Customer screening
• Knowledge retrieval and decisioning
• Evaluate and implement modern AI frameworks including LLM orchestration, agent frameworks, vector databases, RAG architectures, model routing, guardrails, and observability.
• Partner with Data Science teams to operationalize AI/ML models into scalable production platforms.

Engineering Excellence

• Write and review high-quality production code when necessary.
• Lead proof-of-concepts, rapid prototyping, and technical spikes.
• Mentor senior engineers and establish best practices for software engineering.
• Drive automation, CI/CD, DevSecOps, testing, and operational excellence.
• Resolve complex technical challenges across multiple platforms and teams.

Platform Modernization

• Lead migration from legacy Financial Crime applications to cloud-native architectures.
• Architect scalable microservices, event-driven systems, and API-first platforms.
• Design enterprise capabilities for:
• Real-time risk assessment
• Customer screening
• Case management
• Regulatory reporting
• AI orchestration
• Data ingestion and processing
• Drive modernization using cloud technologies and enterprise platforms.

Stakeholder Partnerships

• Collaborate with Product, Compliance, Risk, Operations, Data Science, and Engineering leadership.
• Translate business needs into scalable technical solutions.
• Present architecture strategies and modernization roadmaps to senior technology executives.

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 7+ years architecting, designing and leading the delivery of large-scale solutions
• 4+ years experience presenting technology strategy and concepts to C-level executives and large audiences
• 5+ years experience delivering cloud ready and cloud native solutions

Desired Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience developing or deploying AIpowered tools, chatbots, LLMbased automation, or agentic workflows, including understanding of AI risks, observability needs, and stakeholder communication
• 4+ years of Financial Services industry
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to prioritize work, meet deadlines, achieve goals, and work under pressure.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to solve complex technical problems.