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Enterprise Architect for Financial Crimes

Buffalo, NY, USFull-time$140k–$233k2026-10-23 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Provides enterprise architecture leadership across financial crime and fraud prevention capabilities, defining technology strategies, target-state architectures, and roadmaps for AML, KYC, sanctions, transaction monitoring, and fraud detection.

Role type

Senior Enterprise Architect (Financial Crime & Fraud)

Builds

Enterprise architecture strategies, reference patterns, data and integration architectures, and multi-year roadmaps for financial crime and fraud prevention systems.

Domain

Banking / Financial Services / Financial Crime / Fraud Prevention

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Enterprise architecture, AML/KYC, sanctions screening, fraud prevention, digital identity, graph analytics, event streaming, model lifecycle management, vendor evaluation, regulatory compliance translation

Preferred skills

NICE Actimize, LexisNexis Bridger, BioCatch, Prove, Socure, Bottomline, model validation, explainability, entity resolution, large financial institution experience

Technologies

Kafka, Azure, Snowflake, Databricks, microservices, APIs

Responsibilities

Define and evolve financial crime architecture strategies aligned with business priorities and regulatory obligations; Maintain current-state and target-state architectures across KYC, sanctions, transaction monitoring, and fraud detection; Guide integration of platforms such as NICE Actimize and LexisNexis Bridger; Embed cybersecurity, privacy, and model risk requirements into architecture decisions; Evaluate vendor and platform options for functional coverage and enterprise fit; Provide architecture governance and lifecycle oversight from strategy through implementation.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC