Financial Crime Solution Architect

Financial Crime Solution Architect (Remote – EU)

The Financial Crime Solution Architect provides end to end architectural leadership across UK's Financial Crime technology landscape. The role supports both Business as Usual / Book of Work delivery and strategic change, including the TSB Financial Crime migration (Project Sparrow), ensuring solutions are secure, compliant, resilient and aligned to architecture standards.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Key Accountabilities

• Define and govern solution architecture designs (HLD/LLD) across Financial Crime capabilities, including Transaction Screening, Name Screening, Monitoring, KYC/KYB, Case Management and Data.

• Provide architectural oversight for new initiatives, remediation activity, platform upgrades and technical debt reduction within the Financial Crime Book of Work.

• Act as a core architecture contributor to the TSB Financial Crime migration, supporting data migration, archival strategies, integration patterns and regulatory compliant design decisions.

• Ensure solutions align to Santander UK and Group target architecture, security standards, data policies and regulatory expectations (e.g. PRA, FCA, ECB).

• Identify, manage and escalate architecture risks and dependencies, contributing to programme RAIDs and governance forums.

• Collaborate with Product Owners, Engineering, Data, Security, Risk and Business stakeholders to ensure effective and timely delivery

MANDATORY SKILLS

• Proven experience as a Solution Architect in Financial Crime, Risk or highly regulated banking environments.

• Strong knowledge of Financial Crime domains (AML, Sanctions, Screening, Monitoring, KYC/KYB).

• Experience designing solutions involving complex data, legacy platforms and regulatory constraints.

• Strong understanding of cloud, on prem and hybrid architectures.

• Experience operating within formal architecture governance and assurance frameworks.

NICE TO HAVE SKILLS

• Experience with large scale bank migrations (e.g. TSB).

• Familiarity with platforms such as Actimize, Appian and enterprise data platforms.

• Architecture certification (e.g. TOGAF).

EXPERIENCE

+4 YEARS as Solution architect