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Principal - Head of Compliance Architecture

Chicago, IL, US💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-11 → 2026-09-26

Core

Senior architecture authority for Financial Crimes, Regulatory Compliance, and Regulatory Change portfolios, establishing target-state architecture and governing technology strategy for an integrated regulatory technology ecosystem.

Role type

Principal - Head of Compliance Architecture

Builds

Integrated regulatory technology solutions across SaaS, cloud-native, hybrid, and on-premise platforms for wealth management and banking services.

Domain

Financial Services / Regulatory Technology (RegTech)

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Enterprise architecture, distributed systems, cloud-native technologies, financial services technology platforms, regulatory technology ecosystems, modern software engineering practices

Preferred skills

Financial Crimes Compliance technologies, Regulatory Compliance capabilities, Regulatory Change and Governance platforms, Enterprise data architecture, Cloud and hybrid technology platforms, Enterprise resiliency frameworks, Modern DevSecOps disciplines

Technologies

Snowflake, Databricks, Actimize, ServiceNow IRM, PCF/Kubernetes, microservices, containerization, API-led architectures, event-driven systems, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code

Responsibilities

Establish target-state architecture vision and portfolio-level roadmaps; Define and govern enterprise architecture principles and standards; Lead evaluation and selection of strategic technology platforms and vendor solutions; Design and govern enterprise integration patterns for critical compliance systems; Provide strategic oversight of enterprise data architecture and AI enablement; Drive enterprise resiliency, recoverability, and operational excellence initiatives; Provide leadership support to technical leads and engineering teams; Advise executive leadership on technology strategy and emerging technologies.

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with strategic leadership

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