Finance & Risk Lead Architect — AI-Driven Data Governance

TechDigital Group; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

TechDigital Group seeks a Senior/Lead Architect to own end-to-end Finance & Risk architecture across corporate accounting, regulatory reporting, and investment portfolios. The role blends hands-on delivery with strategic roadmapping and governance across data, APIs, events, and cloud storage.

You will bring deep data architecture, financial-services domain fluency, and practical AI skills to deliver governed, auditable solutions while shaping executive-level decisions and architectures.

Qualifications

• Senior/lead-level architect overseeing finance/risk initiatives from concept to working prototypes.
• Deep data and information architecture including data models, lineage, governance.
• Fluent with APIs, event streaming (Kafka), ETL/ELT, data virtualization, Lakehouse, and cloud storage such as NetApp S3.
• Financial-services domain depth across risk, compliance, finance, and regulatory contexts.
• AI-embedded delivery using GenAI, LLM/RAG and knowledge graphs with governance and security.
• Strong communicator with executive presence, capable of presenting to Architecture Review Boards.
• 7+ years in engineering/solution architecture and 5+ years in financial-services domain; TOGAF familiarity.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end architecture for Finance and Risk initiatives including sub-ledger modernization.
• Define current/target/transition-state architectures with roadmaps and reusable patterns.
• Advance information architecture with data products, lineage, governance, reconciliation, and auditability.
• Apply AI/ML and agentic AI to accounting, reporting, controls, and data quality.
• Collaborate with senior leaders and act independently in matrixed environments.

Skills

Architecture leadership

Data architecture

APIs

Kafka

ETL/ELT

Data governance

AI/ML

TOGAF

Executive presence

Tools

Lakehouse

NetApp S3

Data virtualization

Job description

TechDigital Group seeks a Senior/Lead Architect to own end-to-end Finance & Risk architecture across corporate accounting, regulatory reporting, and investment portfolios. The role blends hands-on delivery with strategic roadmapping and governance across data, APIs, events, and cloud storage.

You will bring deep data architecture, financial-services domain fluency, and practical AI skills to deliver governed, auditable solutions while shaping executive-level decisions and architectures.