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AML Solutions Architect
£70,000 - 80,000
Rumbridge Street 38, Coleman Street
£70,000 - 80,000
Requirements
Must:
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- Strong background in Compliance/anti-money laundering technology, data platforms, or similar regulated environments, with solid system analysis experience.
- Hands-on experience building and operating ETL/ELT pipelines for high-volume transaction and customer data, with a strong focus on data quality, lineage, and reconciliation.
- Proven experience designing and tuning rule engines to reduce false positives and improve AML detection quality.
- Practical experience with microservices and APIs, building scalable services and integrating with wider enterprise platforms.
- Strong CI/CD experience, deploying detection logic and models safely, with appropriate controls and rollback.
- Technical skills: Python, Apache Kafka, Kubernetes, PowerShell scripting, GitHub, JIRA/Confluence, MongoDB, Microsoft SQL, SSIS.
- Excellent stakeholder skills - comfortable presenting proof-of-concepts (POCs), demoing solutions, and explaining complex technical topics to senior non-technical stakeholders.
- Desirable: hands-on AML domain knowledge (AML environments, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, eComms/aComms, and trade surveillance) and exposure to tools such as Behavox, Actimize, or FICO Tonbeller.
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Technologies
CI/CD
Confluence
GitHub
SSIS
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end system architecture for anti-money laundering platforms (rule engines, alerting, data pipelines) across banking and securities under a dual-hat remit.
- Design scalable, secure, and high-performance solutions for transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, and batch analytics.
- Translate AML and regulatory requirements (KYC, CDD, CRR) into actionable technical logic and platform capabilities.
- Work closely with compliance, fincrime, risk, and product teams to prioritize features and act as the key technical bridge between business needs and platform teams.
- Lead technical roadmap planning: break large initiatives into phases, assess feasibility, estimate effort and impact, and propose new technologies where appropriate.
- Oversee integrations with third-party data providers (e.g., sanctions/PEP list vendors) and ensure data quality, lineage, and reconciliation.
- Prepare and maintain operational documentation (HLD/LLD, DFDs, operational guides, workflows) in the document management system.
- Support junior engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and technical guidance, helping to run and improve the products.
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Description
In this role, you will have the opportunity to shape the architecture of critical AML platforms used across the EMEA region of our international banking group. We offer high autonomy to define standards, evaluate new technologies, and drive best practices. You will work closely with Compliance, Risk, FinCrime, and senior stakeholders in a collaborative environment. This position is hybrid, allowing you to work three days a week in our London office near Moorgate. We offer a competitive base salary of up to £80,000, plus bonus and benefits, alongside a balanced hybrid working model. If you are ready to design and lead AML platforms that make a real impact on financial crime prevention, we encourage you to apply. If you’ve held roles such as AML Architect, Compliance Technology Architect, or similar, this could be a great fit for you.
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