Solution Architect - Financial Crime

About the Company

We are HCLTech, one of the fastest-growing large tech companies in the world and home to 220,000 people across 60 countries. We supercharge progress through industry-leading capabilities centered around Digital, Engineering, Cloud, and AI. Our diverse, creative, and passionate people are the driving force behind our work, consistently raising the bar for excellence. We strive to help our employees find their spark and become the best version of themselves.

About the Role

Key Accountabilities

• Define and govern solution architecture designs (HLD/LLD) across Financial Crime capabilities, including Transaction Screening, Name Screening, Monitoring, KYC/KYB, Case Management and Data.
• Provide architectural oversight for new initiatives, remediation activity, platform upgrades and technical debt reduction within the Financial Crime Book of Work.
• Act as a core architecture contributor to the TSB Financial Crime migration, supporting data migration, archival strategies, integration patterns and regulatory compliant design decisions.
• Ensure solutions align to Santander UK and Group target architecture, security standards, data policies and regulatory expectations (e.g. PRA, FCA, ECB).
• Identify, manage and escalate architecture risks and dependencies, contributing to program RAIDs and governance forums.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Engineering, Data, Security, Risk and Business stakeholders to ensure effective and timely delivery.

Required Skills

• 4+ Years of experience as Solution architect
• Proven experience as a Solution Architect in Financial Crime, Risk or highly regulated banking environments.
• Strong knowledge of Financial Crime domains (AML, Sanctions, Screening, Monitoring, KYC/KYB).
• Experience designing solutions involving complex data, legacy platforms and regulatory constraints.
• Strong understanding of cloud, on prem and hybrid architectures.
• Experience operating within formal architecture governance and assurance frameworks.
• English: C1 Level Fluency

Preferred Skills

• Experience with large scale bank migrations (e.g. TSB).
• Familiarity with platforms such as Actimize, Appian and enterprise data platforms.
• Architecture certification (e.g. TOGAF).

Why Us

• Permanent contract
• Remote work model (Candidate must be based in Portugal)
• Competitive salary
• Private health and life insurance from day one in the company
• Meal allowance on card/voucher

Equality & Opportunity for All

Representing 165 nationalities across the globe, we pride ourselves on being an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees regardless of race, religion, sex, color, age, national origin, pregnancy, sexual orientation, physical disability or genetic information, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with federal, state, and/or local law.

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