Remote AML Compliance Tech Analyst

Paradigm Technology; Phoenix (AZ); Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Paradigm is seeking a Technical Business Analyst (AML Compliance) to bridge policy and technology within our BSA/AML platform. The role emphasizes policy interpretation, data validation, and clear communication with compliance, operations, and business stakeholders.

You will write SQL to validate data, build traceability, and support audits, ensuring platform deliverables meet regulatory requirements. Remote, with strong data analytics focus.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience as a Business Analyst, Compliance Analyst, or Systems Analyst in Financial Services.
• Working knowledge of Bank Secrecy Act (BSA)/Anti-Money Laundering (AML) requirements, including customer due diligence, transaction monitoring, suspicious activity reporting, sanctions screening, and recordkeeping.
• Proficiency in SQL: able to write joins, aggregations, subqueries, and window functions, and to build queries from scratch against relational databases.
• Demonstrated ability to read dense policy and regulatory documents and turn them into clear requirements.
• Experience with building requirements documents, traceability matrices, and audit evidence.
• Strong verbal and written communication, with the ability to explain technical topics to non-technical audiences and to hold business meetings with confidence.
• Strong attention to detail, with an organized approach to managing many documents and open items at once.
• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Finance, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Read and interpret BSA/AML policies, standards, procedures, and regulatory guidance, and translate them into clear, testable platform requirements.
• Track changes to policies and regulations and assess their impact on platform functionality, data, and reporting.
• Maintain a current inventory of requirements, owners, and the controls that support them.
• Meet with business and compliance stakeholders to explain what the platform delivers, what it does not, and where gaps exist.
• Translate technical concepts, system behavior, and data flows into plain language for non-technical audiences and translate business needs back into technical terms for delivery teams.
• Take part in planning, release, and change-management discussions, and document decisions and open items.
• Build and maintain a traceability matrix that ties each policy requirement to a specific platform deliverable, configuration, report, or control.
• Prepare and maintain business requirements, functional specifications, process flows, data dictionaries, and test evidence.
• Support internal audit, regulatory examinations, and independent reviews by gathering, organizing, and presenting evidence, and by responding to findings.
• Identify gaps between policy and delivery, document them, and track remediation to closure.

Skills

BSA/AML knowledge

SQL proficiency

Policy to requirements translation

Documentation & audit evidence

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Business/Finance/Information Systems or related field

Job description

Paradigm is seeking a Technical Business Analyst (AML Compliance) to bridge policy and technology within our BSA/AML platform. The role emphasizes policy interpretation, data validation, and clear communication with compliance, operations, and business stakeholders.

You will write SQL to validate data, build traceability, and support audits, ensuring platform deliverables meet regulatory requirements. Remote, with strong data analytics focus.