Anti-Financial Crime Architect

Role profile:

We are looking for an experienced Anti-Financial Crime (AFC) Lead Architect to drive the engineering design and product selection, implementation, integration, and continuous enhancement towards global KYC, CDD, and AML compliance. This role combines engineering leadership, product partnership, and deep collaboration with wider Engineering and Operations teams to strengthen LSEG’s financial crime control environment.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING:

• Own the target state architecture for AFC, covering AML, Sanctions, KYC, Fraud, and Investigations.
• Lead the technical design of a new, cloud‑native AFC platform to replace legacy technology.
• Define architecture patterns, integration approaches, and technology standards for modern AFC systems.
• Produce high‑quality architecture artefacts including blueprints, capability models, service catalogues, and process maps.
• Provide architectural oversight for multi‑year AFC transformation programme
• Partner with engineering, data, compliance, and operations teams to deliver end‑to‑end functional and technical solutions.
• Participate in design authorities, technical governance forums, and regulatory review processes.
• Define data architectures for AFC, including domain models, event schemas, lineage, governance, and quality controls.
• Support implementation of rules engines, anomaly detection, ML models, and risk‑scoring capabilities.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING:

Essential Skills

• Proven expertise in delivering architecture and design for modern, cloud‑native AFC platforms and event‑driven architecture.
• Hands-on design experience with leading KYC/CDD/AML platforms as in-house builds, or vendor platforms like Fenergo, Actimize, Pega, Quantexa, or equivalent.
• Strong understanding of KYC policy, CDD processes, AML regulations, and customer lifecycle workflows
• Ability to define and govern target state architectures, reference models, capability maps, and solution blueprints.
• In depth understanding of key Anti-Financial Crime pillars:
  • Customer Due Diligence / Know your Customer (KYC)
  • Sanctions Screening (customer, payments, entity resolution)
  • Fraud detection and behavioural analytics
  • Case management, investigations, SAR reporting
• Strong command of data architecture for financial crime, including customer, account, transaction, and risk data models.
• Demonstrated ability to lead migrations from legacy AFC systems and/or skills in designing data migration strategies
• Ability to lead architecture workstreams across technology, data, risk, compliance, and operations.
• Experience supporting design authorities, solutioning guilds, audit and regulatory reviews, and senior stakeholder engagements. Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional leadership.
• Product-oriented engineering mindset with a focus on quality and outcomes.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, regulated financial environment.
• Analytical and structured problem-solving approach.

Desirable skills

• Experience with banking, payments and/or financial services domain
• Exposure to machine learning for AFC: anomaly detection, risk scoring, feature stores, explainable AI (XAI).

WHAT YOU’LL GET IN RETURN:

• Be part of a global Financial Crime transformation programme.
• Work with best-in-class vendor platforms and modern engineering stacks.
• Collaborative, flexible, and globally connected work culture.

We recognize that to attract the best talent, we need to be flexible and we are open to discussing work arrangements with you. We take a hybrid approach to workplace, and this role requires blended workstyle.

LSEG Purpose and Values

Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth. Underpinning our purpose, our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change set the standard for everything we do, every day. They guide the way we interact with each other, the partners we work with and our customers. Delivering on our purpose and living up to our values is a responsibility that we all share.

To achieve our ambitions through a strong culture, People Leaders need to role model our Values and create the culture for everyone at LSEG to be at their best.

Career Stage:

Senior Manager

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) Information:

Join us and be part of a team that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement. If you're ready to take your career to the next level and make a significant impact, we'd love to hear from you.

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.

Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone’s race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.

You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas. We are committed to sustainability across our global business and we are proud to partner with our customers to help them meet their sustainability objectives. Our charity, the LSEG Foundation provides charitable grants to community groups that help people access economic opportunities and build a secure future with financial independence. Colleagues can get involved through fundraising and volunteering.

Career Stage:

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) Information:

Join us and be part of a team that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement. If you're ready to take your career to the next level and make a significant impact, we'd love to hear from you.

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.

Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone’s race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.

You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas. We are committed to sustainability across our global business and we are proud to partner with our customers to help them meet their sustainability objectives. Our charity, the LSEG Foundation provides charitable grants to community groups that help people access economic opportunities and build a secure future with financial independence. Colleagues can get involved through fundraising and volunteering.

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

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