A US bank is seeking a Director-level Architecture Lead to drive enterprise architecture strategy for Compliance Engineering initiatives. This role combines deep expertise in banking payments technology and Financial Crime domains to deliver secure, scalable, resilient, and regulatory-compliant enterprise solutions.

The Architecture Lead will define and govern target-state architectures across payment rails including SWIFT, ACH, and RTP while supporting Anti-Money Laundering (AML), transaction monitoring, surveillance, and broader compliance capabilities. Working closely with engineering, data, compliance, security, and business stakeholders, this leader will shape enterprise-wide architecture standards and ensure alignment with regulatory expectations, operational resiliency objectives, and modernization strategies.

Key Responsibilities:

Architecture Leadership

  • Define end-to-end target-state and transitional architectures for payments and compliance platforms across SWIFT, ACH, RTP, and related payment ecosystems
  • Establish and maintain enterprise reference architectures, design patterns, standards, and technical guardrails
  • Ensure architectures meet enterprise performance, resiliency (RTO/RPO), security, scalability, and compliance requirements
  • Lead architecture reviews, resiliency assessments, and threat modeling exercises to validate solution integrity and operational readiness
  • Drive adherence to enterprise architecture standards, governance frameworks, and engineering best practices

Design, Documentation & Communication

  • Produce high-quality architecture artifacts including system diagrams, sequence flows, data flow models, technical specifications, and solution documentation
  • Translate complex technical and regulatory concepts into clear, actionable guidance for business stakeholders, compliance teams, and regulators
  • Facilitate deep technical discussions with engineering, SRE, architecture, and data teams
  • Interpret and translate regulatory requirements (AML/KYC, transaction monitoring, auditability, data retention) into scalable technology designs and control frameworks

Payments & Financial Crime Expertise

  • Architect enterprise solutions supporting transaction monitoring, surveillance, Financial Crime operations, and regulatory compliance capabilities
  • Partner with Financial Crime and Compliance teams to design detection, investigation, escalation, and reporting platforms
  • Align technical architectures to financial crime typologies, risk indicators, and evolving regulatory expectations
  • Ensure enterprise solutions support security, privacy, auditability, traceability, and governance requirements across the payments ecosystem

Data Architecture & Quality

  • Define critical data elements (CDEs), enterprise data models, lineage frameworks, mapping strategies, and data quality controls
  • Drive metadata management, master/reference data strategies, and governance standards across payments and compliance domains
  • Collaborate with Data Engineering teams to support scalable ingestion pipelines, streaming architectures, analytics, and reporting capabilities
  • Ensure robust controls across data ingestion, processing, storage, and consumption layers

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field
  • Extensive experience in enterprise architecture leadership within banking, financial services, or compliance technology environments
  • Deep technical expertise across banking payment systems including:
    • SWIFT
    • ACH
    • RTP (Real-Time Payments)
    • Related payment rails and transaction ecosystems
  • Strong knowledge of Financial Crime domains with emphasis on:
    • Anti-Money Laundering (AML)
    • Transaction Monitoring
    • Market Abuse
    • KYC and surveillance controls
  • Experience designing highly resilient, secure, and compliant enterprise architectures
  • Strong understanding of enterprise integration patterns, distributed systems, APIs, and event-driven architectures
  • Expertise in data architecture, data governance, lineage, metadata management, and quality controls
  • Experience leading architecture governance, technical reviews, and enterprise standards initiatives
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across technical and regulatory audiences

Preferred Skills:

  • Experience supporting regulatory remediation or enterprise compliance modernization initiatives
  • Knowledge of cloud-native architectures, distributed data platforms, and modern analytics ecosystems
  • Experience with streaming data platforms, real-time monitoring, and scalable transaction processing systems
  • Familiarity with Zero Trust security models and enterprise IAM frameworks
  • Strong understanding of enterprise resiliency planning and disaster recovery architectures
  • Experience working within highly regulated banking and financial crime environments

Work Arrangement:

On-site

Location:

Lake Mary, FL

Compensation:

DOE (Depends on Experience)

Contract Details:

  • Employment Type: Full-Time
Type of Project: Core Banking Architecture Business Alignment & Transformation Planning
Work Arrangement: onsite
Work Type: Full-Time / Permanent
State: Lake Mary FL

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