Introduction SymphonyAI Financial Services builds advanced AI-powered software to combat financial crime and support compliance for global banks and institutions As we transition from our flagship platform NetReveal to a next-generation SaaS-based product suite we re evolving our architecture to support scale speed and innovation in highly regulated environments We re seeking a Chief Architect with deep AI expertise and proven experience building financial crime FC platforms AML sanctions fraud KYC KYB adverse media investigations You will lead our Architecture Chapter and set the endtoend technical strategy for an AIfirst multitenant SaaS platform spanning data fabric and ontology streaming realtime detection MLOps and model risk management LLM RAG multiagent capabilities explainability and auditability You will shape the evolution of both our legacy and nextgen platforms ensuring robust compliant and performant solutions to build our new generation of products on an AI led compliance native architecture What you ll do Domain Product Architecture LeadershipOwn the enterprise solution architecture for financial crime capabilities across transaction monitoring sanctions name screening fraud KYC KYB network analytics and investigation case management Define reference architectures and domain models typologies risk models scenarios detection rules explainability artifacts aligned to regulatory and customer outcomes Partner with Product to roadmap precision recall and analyst productivity improvements alert reduction prioritization triage auto disposition workflow orchestration AI ML Agentic SystemsEmbed AI by design supervised unsupervised graph ML LLMaugmented workflows RAG tooluse multiagent feature stores online offline model serving drift detection and continuous training Establish Model Risk Management MRM practices documentation validation monitoring challenger models bias fairness testing and approvals Deliver explainability e g SHAP LIME counterfactuals suitable for auditors regulators and model governance committees Platform Data IntegrationLead a multitenant cloudnative architecture Azurefirst AWS legacy support using containers eventdriven patterns and APIfirst design Design a zero nocopy manageinplace data approach that integrates with bank data lakes Delta Iceberg Hudi while enforcing lineage data contracts quality and observability Scale real-time detection pipelines Kafka Event Hubs Flink Spark Structured Streaming with strict latency throughput SLOs Advance knowledge graphs ontologies and vector search for entity resolution name matching and adversemedia enrichment Security Compliance ReliabilityChampion defenseindepth zerotrust OIDC OAuth2 mTLS secrets management least privilege encryption at rest in transit and secure SDLC Ensure auditability and regulatory readiness FATF Wolfsberg GDPR DPDP regional data residency including immutable logs and end-to-end lineage Set SLOs and operability standards observability chaos resiliency testing capacity planning blue green canary rollback Leadership CollaborationLead the Architecture Chapter solution security data performance Govern standards patterns and reviews across squads Partner with Cloud DevOps Data ML Engineering QA and Delivery to ensure end-to-end solution integrity Engage with customers regulators and partners as a senior technology voice support solution architecture in presales and complex deliveries What you ll bring 15 years in enterprise software including 5 years in senior architecture leadership Must have 7 years building or integrating financial crime systems AML transaction monitoring sanctions name screening fraud KYC KYB for Tier1 2 banks or RegTech vendors Proven delivery of scalable SaaS or platform products on Azure AKS Event Hubs Postgres Azure AI ML OpenAI Key Vault Monitor AWS GCP experience a plus Deep knowledge of distributed systems streaming microservices and event-driven design Hands-on with AI ML platforms feature stores model serving online batch MLOps monitoring and drift detection Practical experience with LLMs prompting function tool use RAG vector DBs and graph ER entity resolution network features knowledge graphs Solid command of FC domain specifics typologies thresholds vs risk scoring suppression tuning fuzzy phonetic matching and transliteration screening operations case triage SAR DAML workflows Security and performance architecture for regulated industries evidence of auditability lineage and model governance Excellent stakeholder management and communication across executive product engineering and customer teams Preferred Bonus Experience Building AI-first products Passion for open-source tools and contributing to the AI Dev community Past startup or founding experience LLM frameworks such as LangChain LlamaIndex Workflow engines automation tools or no-code platforms APIs system integrations Familiarity with vector databases embeddings and prompt engineering best practices Financial crime AML fraud detection or compliance systems expertise Familiarity with SAFE agile delivery at scale Contributions to open-source industry standards or architecture frameworks Public speaking technical blogging or community engagement About Us SymphonyAI is building the leading enterprise AI SaaS company for digital transformation across the most critical and resilient growth industries including retail consumer packaged goods financial crime prevention manufacturing media and IT service management Since its founding in 2017 SymphonyAI today serves 1500 Enterprise customers globally and has grown to 3 000 talented leaders data scientists and other professionals across over 30 countries Visit here for more information about how we hire what s in it for you our culture and values