Senior Solutions Architect (FDE) - Intelligence

Chainalysis; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Chainalysis' Blockchain Foundations Team (BCF) is a Business Unit focused on Alterya, an AI-powered fraud prevention platform helping financial institutions, fintechs, and cryptocurrency businesses detect and prevent scams before funds leave customer accounts.

As a Solutions Engineer, you will serve as a trusted technical advisor throughout the customer journey, partnering with prospects and customers from initial discovery through deployment and ongoing success.

Qualifications

• Own Proof of Concepts (POCs) end to end, including planning, defining success criteria, execution, and successful completion.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Account Executives and Sales teams to lead technical discovery sessions, product demonstrations, and solution workshops.
• Lead technical onboarding, API integrations, and deployment of Alterya's platform into customer environments.
• Advise customers on emerging fraud trends and best practices.
• Troubleshoot technical issues and provide ongoing solution guidance throughout the customer lifecycle.

Skills

POCs end-to-end

Technical enablement

Cross-functional collaboration

Fraud prevention

Customer-facing

API integrations

Problem-solving

Multi-engagement management

Fast-paced environment

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Tools

REST APIs

Webhooks

SQL

Python

Cloud-native platforms

Job description

Team:

Chainalysis' Blockchain Foundations Team (BCF) is a Business Unit within Chainalysis focused on Alterya, an AI-powered fraud prevention platform helping financial institutions, fintechs, and cryptocurrency businesses detect and prevent scams before funds leave customer accounts. Alterya leverages advanced AI, behavioral analytics, and real-time intelligence to identify emerging fraud patterns and protect customers from increasingly sophisticated financial crime. As part of Chainalysis, we're building the next generation of fraud prevention technology that enables organizations to stay ahead of scammers while delivering seamless customer experiences.

Role:

As a Solutions Engineer, you will serve as a trusted technical advisor throughout the customer journey, partnering with prospects and customers from initial discovery through deployment and ongoing success. This hybrid pre- and post-sales role combines solution consulting, technical implementation, fraud prevention expertise, and customer enablement. You'll work closely with banks, fintechs, payment providers, and crypto businesses to understand their fraud challenges, design tailored solutions, and ensure successful implementation of Alterya's AI-powered platform.

In this role, you’ll:

• Partner with Account Executives and Sales teams to lead technical discovery sessions, product demonstrations, and solution workshops.

• Help customers evaluate Alterya's fraud detection capabilities and align solutions with their fraud prevention strategies.

• Design and implement customized fraud detection workflows using AI-driven behavioral intelligence and risk signals.

• Lead technical onboarding, API integrations, and deployment of Alterya's platform into customer environments.

• Collaborate with customer fraud, risk, engineering, and operations teams to ensure successful implementation and adoption.

• Advise customers on emerging fraud trends, scam typologies, and fraud prevention best practices.

• Troubleshoot technical issues and provide ongoing solution guidance throughout the customer lifecycle.

• Partner with Product and Engineering teams to share customer feedback and influence future product development.

• Document implementation best practices and contribute to scalable enablement resources.

We’re looking for candidates who have:

• Own Proof of Concepts (POCs) end to end, including planning, defining success criteria, execution, and successful completion.

• Enables sales teams through training, product education, and ongoing technical support.

• Work across multiple products, helping bundle solutions and bridge knowledge gaps between teams.

• Prioritizes high agency, ownership, and the ability to learn quickly over specific domain expertise.
  3+ years of experience in a customer-facing technical role such as Solutions Engineer, Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect, Technical Consultant, or similar.

• Experience working with fraud prevention, financial crime, payments, banking, fintech, or cryptocurrency solutions.

• Experience integrating SaaS platforms using APIs and supporting technical implementations.

• Strong understanding of fraud detection, transaction monitoring, AML, scam prevention, or risk management concepts.

• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into business value for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Excellent problem-solving, troubleshooting, and customer communication skills.

• Experience managing multiple customer engagements in a fast-paced environment.

• A proactive, self-driven mindset with strong collaboration skills across technical and commercial teams.

Nice to have experience:

• Experience with AI or machine learning-powered fraud detection platforms.

• Knowledge of cryptocurrency, blockchain technology, or digital asset ecosystems.

• Experience with SQL, Python, or scripting languages.

• Familiarity with KYC, AML, transaction monitoring, or financial crime compliance solutions.

• Experience working with enterprise financial institutions or fintech organizations.

Technologies we use:

• REST APIs

• Webhooks

• SQL

• Python

• Cloud-native SaaS platforms

• AI/ML fraud detection platforms

• CRM and customer success tools

AI at Chainalysis
AI is not a feature at Chainalysis - it is a new way of working. One that turns instructions into work done, and helps us move faster than the threats we're built to counter, and we expect our employees to take ownership of the output and ensure quality. As the world's most trusted blockchain analytics platform, Chainalysis sits at a rare intersection of proprietary data, regulatory relationships and crypto expertise that makes it uniquely placed to shape and lead the next era of AI-driven intelligence - and we expect everyone here, regardless of role, to be an active part of it.
AI fluency is tied directly to how we measure performance and how we plan to win. There is no substitute for your own curiosity. We provide the tools, workflows, and space to experiment - but the expectation is that you develop these capabilities yourself, bring ideas, and collaborate across teams to reinvent the way work gets done. We are not using AI to do less. We are using it to do what was never possible before.

About Chainalysis

Chainalysis is the blockchain data platform, making it easy to connect the movement of digital assets to real-world services. Powered by deep blockchain data and AI, organizations can investigate illicit activity, manage risk exposure, and develop innovative market solutions built on the industry's most trusted blockchain intelligence. Our mission is to build trust in blockchains, blending safety and security with an unwavering commitment to growth and innovation.

You belong here.

At Chainalysis, we believe that diversity of experience and thought makes us stronger. With both customers and employees around the world, we are committed to ensuring our team reflects the unique communities around us. We’re ensuring we keep learning by committing to continually revisit and reevaluate our diversity culture.

We encourage applicants across any race, ethnicity, gender/gender expression, age, spirituality, ability, experience and more. If you need any accommodations to make our interview process more accessible to you due to a disability, don't hesitate to let us know. You can learn more here. We can’t wait to meet you.