Compliance Technology Analyst

Intec Select; City Of London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution is seeking a highly skilled Senior Compliance Technology Engineer to shape system architecture and drive technical best practices for AML and sanctions screening. You will design scalable, secure systems and manage integrations with third-party data sources. The ideal candidate has expertise in compliance technologies, strong stakeholder engagement skills, and hands-on experience with data pipelines and microservices.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing and owning system architecture for compliance platforms.
• Strong background in building and optimizing ETL/ELT data pipelines.
• Hands-on expertise with microservices and APIs.

Responsibilities

• Own system architecture of AML platforms.
• Design high-performance systems for transaction monitoring.
• Translate regulatory requirements into actionable technical logic.
• Manage integrations with third-party data sources.
• Conduct data analysis in line with business needs.

Skills

System architecture ownership

Scalable system design

Technical documentation

Data analysis

Integration management

Stakeholder engagement

Microservices expertise

Compliance knowledge (AML, KYC, CDD)

Tools

Kafka

Python

SQL

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Senior Compliance Technology Engineer – Global Tier 1 Investment Bank

A Global Tier 1 Investment Bank is seeking a highly skilled Senior Compliance Technology Engineer. This is a pivotal role within the development team, responsible for shaping system architecture, driving technical best practices, and delivering technology solutions that support complex financial crime, AML, and sanctions screening objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Owning the system architecture of AML platforms (rule engines, alerting systems, data pipelines).
• Designing scalable, secure and high-performance systems for transaction monitoring and analytics.
• Translating regulatory and audit requirements (KYC, CDD, CRR) into actionable technical logic.
• Managing integrations with third-party data sources (PEP lists, sanctions vendors, screenings).
• Acting as a technical intermediary between compliance stakeholders and platform engineering teams.
• Conducting detailed data analysis in line with business and regulatory needs.
• Performing feasibility assessments, estimating resources, timelines and system impact.
• Producing technical documentation including CD/HLD/LLD/DFD.
• Proven experience designing and owning system architecture for large-scale compliance or AML platforms.
• Strong background building and optimising ETL/ELT data pipelines handling high-volume financial data.
• Hands‑on expertise with microservices, APIs and event‑driven systems (e.g., Kafka).
• Ability to translate AML regulatory requirements (KYC, CDD, CRR) into technical logic and platform rules.
• Experience with rule engines and tuning logic to reduce false positives in transaction monitoring.
• Solid understanding of data quality, lineage, reconciliation and auditability standards.
• Comfortable working across diverse technical stacks (Python, SQL/NoSQL, Kubernetes, CI/CD tooling).
• Proven ability to lead technical design, produce HLD/LLD documentation and conduct detailed data analysis.
• Previous work with sanctions, transaction monitoring, surveillance or broader financial crime technologies.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills, acting as a bridge between compliance, risk, product and engineering teams.