Senior AI Platform Architect for Financial Risk & Compliance

Heitmeyer Consulting; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Heitmeyer Consulting, a leading financial services advisory, seeks a senior technology leader to drive modernization of risk, fraud, and compliance platforms. You will shape strategy, architecture, and engineering standards while working with business, risk, and tech stakeholders.

This role blends strategic leadership with hands-on engineering, requiring experience building large-scale enterprise systems, cloud-native designs, and AI-enabled solutions.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering, architecture, or technology leadership experience.
• Proven experience delivering large-scale enterprise systems.
• Experience leading architecture discussions and influencing technology strategy.
• Strong cloud-based and cloud-native solutions background.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

• Define and guide long-term technology strategy for risk and compliance platforms.
• Lead architecture and design for AI-enabled applications and decisioning systems.
• Establish engineering standards, architectural patterns, and technology best practices.
• Review scalability, security, resiliency, and performance considerations.
• Mentor engineers and foster engineering excellence across the organization.
• Collaborate with business, risk, compliance, operations, and technology leaders.
• Translate business objectives into scalable technical solutions.
• Communicate technical strategy, architecture decisions, and modernization roadmaps to senior leadership.

Skills

Tech leadership

Enterprise architecture

Cloud-native

AI/ML

Stakeholder comms

Job description

Heitmeyer Consulting, a leading financial services advisory, seeks a senior technology leader to drive modernization of risk, fraud, and compliance platforms. You will shape strategy, architecture, and engineering standards while working with business, risk, and tech stakeholders.

This role blends strategic leadership with hands-on engineering, requiring experience building large-scale enterprise systems, cloud-native designs, and AI-enabled solutions.