Principal Architect - Compliance Risk Technology

About this role:

In this role, you will:

• Act as the architectural authority for Compliance Risk Technology, defining and driving a cohesive target‑state architecture across a complex landscape of legacy platforms, vendor solutions, and custom‑built systems
• Provide architectural leadership for modernization and transformation initiatives, ensuring solutions remain regulator‑ready, auditable, and defensible
• Translate regulatory requirements and business objectives into clear, actionable architectural designs and multi‑year technology roadmaps
• Design and govern enterprise‑scale application and microservices architectures aligned to Compliance Risk domains, including surveillance, investigations, attestations, issues management, and regulatory change
• Define API‑first, contract‑driven, and event‑driven integration patterns supporting near‑real‑time monitoring and alerting capabilities
• Architect modern data platforms that enable compliance analytics, reporting, lineage, and auditability, including object‑storage‑based data lake and lakehouse patterns
• Integrate structured and unstructured data into unified compliance data assets that support traceability, reproducibility, and evidentiary requirements
• Design and guide the implementation of AI‑enabled architectures, including ML‑based risk scoring, alert prioritization, anomaly detection, and NLP‑driven regulatory and case analysis
• Architect intelligent and agentic automation solutions with appropriate human‑in‑the‑loop controls, aligned with Responsible AI and Model Risk Management expectations
• Establish architecture standards, reference architectures, and guardrails across application, data, AI, integration, security, resiliency, and privacy domains
• Engage directly with delivery teams by reviewing designs, guiding implementation decisions, and resolving complex architectural trade‑offs
• Partner with leaders across Technology, Risk, Legal, and Compliance to influence investment decisions, platform consolidation efforts, and long‑term technology roadmaps
• Maintain awareness of emerging technologies, industry best practices, and regulatory trends, recommending innovations that enhance operational effectiveness and compliance outcomes

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of architecture experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 7+ years of experience as a Principal, Lead, or Enterprise Architect (or equivalent senior engineering leadership role)
• 7+ years of experience in Compliance, Regulatory, Surveillance, Employee Compliance, or Risk Management Technology architecture
• 5+ years of experience with microservices and domain‑driven architecture approaches
• 5+ years of experience architecting modern data platforms, including object storage and open technologies
• 5+ years of experience designing API‑first and event‑driven integration patterns
• 3+ years of experience designing and delivering AI/ML and NLP‑based solutions in regulated compliance, risk, or financial environments

Desired Qualifications:

• Ability to operate with executive presence while remaining hands‑on where it matters
• Comfort navigating complex legacy environments and regulatory constraints
• Bias toward simplification, reuse, and platform‑based thinking
• Willingness to challenge legacy patterns to drive durable, compliant, long‑term outcomes
• Proven ability to synthesize complex ecosystems into rationalized, target‑state architectures
• Demonstrated success modernizing large, fragmented technology estates into integrated platforms
• Hands‑on exposure to agentic frameworks, orchestration engines, or workflow‑driven AI systems
• Experience supporting regulatory remediation programs, consent orders, or sustained examination cycles
• Experience architecting platforms across first‑line, second‑line, and audit use cases
• Strong understanding of enterprise data governance and model risk management frameworks
• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence engineers, risk partners, and executive stakeholders

Job Expectations:

• Ability to work onsite at one of the posted locations
• Willingness to travel up to 10% of the time
• Partner with senior technical and business leaders to drive modernization, simplification, and target‑state strategies, including detailed, hands‑on architectures and prototypes