Solution Architect – Enterprise Services (Financial Crime)

About the Position

We are seeking a Solution Architect – Enterprise Services (Financial Crime) to shape and govern the next generation of Financial Crime capabilities, including Transaction Screening, Monitoring, pKYC/pKYB, Sanctions, CDD, EDD, and Customer Risk Assessment.

This role is pivotal in protecting the bank, its customers, and the broader financial system by delivering robust, scalable, and compliant FinCrime solutions.

Responsibilities

• Architect and govern end-to-end Financial Crime solutions across the full lifecycle, ensuring scalability, robustness, and regulatory compliance
• Translate business, regulatory, and compliance requirements into practical, implementable architectures
• Set architectural direction for AML transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, fraud prevention, and risk scoring
• Lead the definition of target-state architectures and multi-year roadmaps for Financial Crime systems
• Contribute to architectural assessments in the context of mergers and acquisitions
• Ensure consistency with enterprise architecture principles, patterns, and governance
• Serve as a trusted architecture advisor to CIO, Financial Crime Compliance, Operations, and Data teams
• Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure solutions align with architecture standards
• Represent architecture in regulatory, audit, and risk forums as required
• Conduct peer reviews and validate designs from engineering teams to uphold architectural integrity
• Oversee decommissioning, data archival, and migration approaches in line with governance
• Promote secure, compliant design patterns aligned with Financial Crime regulatory obligations
• Champion architectural best practices across squads and Agile delivery teams
• Mentor engineering and design peers to foster a culture of quality, innovation, and ownership
• Demonstrate leadership through thought partnership, problem-solving, and decision-making

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience as a Solution Architect within complex financial services environments
• Strong knowledge of core Financial Crime domains such as AML, sanctions, transaction monitoring, screening, KYC/KYB, EDD, and customer risk scoring
• Proven ability to design functional and logical architectures, system interaction models, and integration patterns
• Experience with RESTful API design, versioning, and messaging or event-driven architectures
• Hands-on experience producing As-Is and Target architectures, roadmaps, and transition states
• Experience ensuring solutions comply with enterprise-level architectural frameworks, standards, and governance
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to influence decisions and lead discussions with compliance, technology, and operational leaders
• Delivery-focused, pragmatic, and comfortable working independently in fast-moving environments
• Evidence of ownership, initiative, and thought leadership

Nice to Have

• Knowledge of BIAN, TOGAF, ArchiMate, or C4 modelling
• Experience with Avolution Abacus or similar architecture tools
• Familiarity with microservices, API integration patterns, and cloud platforms such as AWS
• Exposure to global banking, Financial Crime transformation programs, or regulatory change portfolios

We Offer

• Hybrid working model in Poland
• Opportunity to work with a leading company in the financial services sector
• Competitive compensation package

About the Company

EPAM Systems is a global software engineering and product development company. We partner with the world’s leading companies to deliver innovative digital solutions that drive business transformation and growth.