Fraud Solution Architect

Heitmeyer Consulting; Buffalo (NY); Remote; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A consulting firm is seeking an experienced Solution Architect to design and lead the re-architecture of a banking client's Enterprise Fraud Layer. This role involves integrating various fraud detection systems, ensuring compliance, and communicating architectural designs to stakeholders. The ideal candidate has over 7 years in Solution Architecture, expertise in financial fraud, and cloud-native architecture experience. This is a remote position requiring EST hours.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in Solution Architecture with a software development background.
• Deep knowledge of financial crimes/fraud domain within banking.
• Experience with integration and ecosystem evaluation.
• Strong communication and influencing skills.
• Cloud-native architecture experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.

Responsibilities

• Architect and design the Enterprise Fraud Layer (EFL).
• Design scalable, resilient fraud detection solutions.
• Present architectural designs to stakeholders.
• Oversee event streaming and data ingestion pipelines.
• Communicate architecture rationale to teams.
• Produce diagrams and decision documents.

Skills

Solution Architecture

Financial crimes/fraud domain knowledge

Integration & ecosystem evaluation

Strong communication skills

Cloud-native architecture

Job description

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Location: 100% remote — must work EST hours
Duration: 18–24 months (potential to convert if willing to relocate)
Travel: once every 2 months for critical on-site meetings

Job Summary: We’re hiring an experienced Solution Architect for a regional banking client to design and lead the re-architecture of the bank’s home-grown Enterprise Fraud Layer (EFL). The platform is currently .NET/MS heavy and is being rewritten using Java Spring Boot to improve performance and reliability. This role sits at the intersection of fraud domain expertise, cloud-native architecture, and system integration — you’ll define the target architecture, stitch product and in-house components together (BioCatch, RSA, Prove) and ensure the solution meets enterprise and InfoSec standards.

Top Responsibilities

• Architect and design the Enterprise Fraud Layer (EFL): rule engines, decisioning workflows, and real-time transaction monitoring. Assess the current ecosystem and define the migration/modernization path to consolidate disparate systems.
• Design scalable, resilient fraud detection solutions supporting omnichannel use cases (web, mobile, voice). Integrate BioCatch, PinDrop, Actimize, RSA and other fraud platforms — justify integration choices and expected customer/colleague outcomes.
• Own and present architectural designs to InfoSec, Architecture Review Boards, and senior stakeholders to ensure governance, compliance, and regulatory alignment.
• Oversee event streaming and data ingestion pipelines (Kafka or similar), API orchestration for fraud signals, and performance considerations across the solution.
• Spend ~40–50% of your time communicating architecture rationale, tradeoffs, and roadmaps to stakeholders, engineering teams, and enterprise architects.
• Produce diagrams, artifacts and decision documents that clearly show integrations, workflows, and recommended consolidation strategies.

Required Skills

1. 7+ years in Solution Architecture with a software development background — you’re not expected to be a day-to-day coder, but must understand how code is written and how components interact.
2. Deep knowledge of financial crimes/fraud domain within banking — specific experience with Actimize customer identity fraud & authentication, and RSA rules-based systems.
3. Integration & ecosystem evaluation experience — proven ability to create diagrams and artifacts showing how fraud systems integrate, where signals flow, and how to make decisions to consolidate/enhance capabilities.
4. Strong communication & influencing skills — able to convince and align difficult stakeholders and enterprise architects across business, security, and engineering.
5. Cloud-native architecture experience — AWS, Azure, or GCP; microservices; event-driven systems (Kafka or equivalent).

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Azure Cloud experience
• Prior work with BioCatch and PinDrop (voice biometrics / device fingerprinting).

Heitmeyer Consulting is an equal opportunity employer, and we encourage all qualified candidates to apply. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to minority status, gender, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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