Financial Crime Technology Architecture & Strategy Lead

JR United Kingdom; London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the financial sector is seeking a Financial Crime Technology Architecture & Strategy Lead in London. This role involves defining enterprise architecture and driving technology strategy for financial crime, ensuring alignment with business goals and fostering innovation. The ideal candidate will possess strong communication and collaboration skills, with a background in financial crime or similar fields.

Qualifications

• Expert knowledge of application architecture and at least one business, data, or infrastructure architecture.
• Experience in Financial Crime, Fraud, or similar areas preferred.

Responsibilities

• Define and communicate current and target state architecture.
• Drive effective architecture governance and evolve strategy.

Skills

Communication

Collaboration

Stakeholder Management

Agile Methodologies

Education

Expert Knowledge of Application Architecture

Understanding of Industry Architecture Frameworks

Tools

TOGAF

ArchiMate

Job description

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Financial Crime Technology Architecture & Strategy Lead, London

Client: NatWest

Location: London, United Kingdom

Job Category: Other

EU work permit required: Yes

Job Views: 3

Posted: 16.05.2025

Expiry Date: 30.06.2025

Job Description:

Join us as a Financial Crime Technology Architecture & Strategy Lead

• For someone with experience in defining Enterprise architecture, strategy, and roadmaps for complex enterprises, this is an excellent opportunity to join our business.
• You'll own and drive the full end-to-end business leading technology strategy and architecture for Financial Crime, including functional, platform, data, hosting, with associated roadmaps.
• You’ll ensure alignment with the bank’s simplification strategy and co-create architectural roadmaps via active engagements with functions and franchises.
• You’ll ensure our architecture direction improves quality, accelerates delivery of value to customers, and drives innovation, while keeping our services and applications safe and secure.
• With valuable exposure, you’ll be building and leveraging relationships with colleagues across the bank to ensure commercially focused decisions to create long-term value for the bank.

Join us as a Financial Crime Technology Architecture & Strategy Lead

• For someone with experience in defining Enterprise architecture, strategy, and roadmaps for complex enterprises, this is an excellent opportunity to join our business.
• You'll own and drive the full end-to-end business leading technology strategy and architecture for Financial Crime, including functional, platform, data, hosting, with associated roadmaps.
• You’ll ensure alignment with the bank’s simplification strategy and co-create architectural roadmaps via active engagements with functions and franchises.
• You’ll ensure our architecture direction improves quality, accelerates delivery of value to customers, and drives innovation, while keeping our services and applications safe and secure.
• With valuable exposure, you’ll be building and leveraging relationships with colleagues across the bank to ensure commercially focused decisions to create long-term value for the bank.

What you'll do

As a Financial Crime Technology Architecture & Strategy Lead, you’ll be defining and communicating the current, resultant, and target state architecture for your assigned scope. You’ll ensure the architecture links to, and is informed by, our overall strategy and architecture, producing the architecture outcomes.

We’ll look to you to strongly influence the development of business strategies at an organizational level, identifying transformational opportunities for our businesses and technology areas associated with both new and existing technologies. You'll also be driving effective architecture governance and cadence with business colleagues to continually evolve the strategy and architecture in alignment with our business strategy.

Additionally, you’ll be:

• Translating architecture roadmaps into packages of work that allow frequent incremental delivery of value to be included in the product backlog.
• Defining, creating, and maintaining architecture models, roadmaps, standards, and outcomes, using architecture strategies to ensure alignment with higher-level models.
• Working closely with business owners, portfolio managers, product managers, and release managers to define the target intentional architecture.
• Leading complex and technically challenging architectural transformations, coordinating design and platform teams across domains.
• Seeking out and utilizing continuous feedback, fostering adaptive design and engineering practices to drive collaboration around a common technical vision.

The skills you'll need

To succeed in this role, you’ll need expert knowledge of application architecture, and at least one business, data, or infrastructure architecture with in-depth knowledge of the remaining disciplines. Experience in Financial Crime, Fraud, or similar business, data, or technology areas is preferred.

You’ll have excellent communication skills to clearly convey complex technical concepts to colleagues and senior leadership, with a good understanding of Agile methodologies and experience working in Agile teams.

You should also demonstrate:

• Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience developing, syndicating, and communicating architectures, designs, and proposals for action.
• An understanding of industry architecture frameworks such as TOGAF and ArchiMate.
• Experience working with business solution vendors, technology vendors, and market products.
• A background in systems development lifecycle, best practices, and approaches.
• Knowledge of hardware, software, application, and systems engineering.