Solutions Architect - AML & Financial Crime Tokyo

Join a globally established digital risk intelligence organisation as a Solutions Architect, helping banks and financial institutions across Japan strengthen their capabilities in financial crime prevention, AML, fraud, sanctions, regulatory compliance, and digital asset risk.

This is more than a conventional pre-sales or Solutions Engineering position. You will operate as an embedded technical advisor to financial institutions, owning client engagements from discovery and investigation through solution architecture, deployment, adoption, and long-term enablement.

Working at the intersection of Financial Crime Compliance, AML, digital assets, data, and AI-driven intelligence, you will partner directly with compliance, risk, and investigative teams to understand complex operational challenges and translate them into technically sound solutions.

You will use Python, SQL, proprietary digital asset intelligence, dashboards, data models, and investigative workflows to address real-world financial crime challenges. You will also deliver training and technical briefings to audiences ranging from specialist investigators and analysts to senior banking executives.

For professionals combining hands-on financial crime knowledge with strong technical and client-facing capabilities, this is an opportunity to work at the forefront of digital asset compliance and risk intelligence in Japan.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to banks and financial institutions in Japan, working closely with compliance, risk, AML, fraud, and financial crime investigation teams.
• Conduct detailed client discovery to understand operational objectives, investigative requirements, technical environments, and regulatory challenges.
• Translate complex financial crime and compliance requirements into clearly defined, technically viable solutions.
• Design custom analytical outputs including investigative workflows, data models, dashboards, queries, and other data-driven solutions.
• Use proprietary digital asset and on-chain intelligence to address real-world AML, fraud, sanctions, compliance, and investigative challenges.
• Deliver live training programmes, investigative walkthroughs, product demonstrations, and technical briefings.
• Adapt complex technical and investigative concepts for audiences ranging from specialist analysts to C-suite banking stakeholders.
• Guide clients through the full engagement lifecycle, including initial scoping, requirements gathering, solution design, go-live, adoption, and sustained value creation.
• Help client teams build the skills and technical capabilities required to operate solutions independently and embed them into day-to-day workflows.
• Provide technical pre-sales support for complex financial services opportunities, demonstrating possible approaches and building client confidence in proposed solutions.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Sales, and Intelligence teams to feed market and customer insights into ongoing platform development.
• Build credible, long-term relationships with senior stakeholders across compliance, risk, AML, and investigative functions.

Required Skills and Qualifications

Experience:

• Meaningful hands-on experience within banking or financial services, particularly in financial crime investigations, AML (Anti-Money Laundering), fraud prevention, sanctions, or regulatory compliance.
• Strong practical knowledge of financial crime, compliance, risk, or investigative workflows within financial institutions.
• Solid hands-on capability with Python and SQL for data querying, transformation, and analytical workflow development.
• Experience producing notebooks, dashboards, queries, or other data-driven investigative outputs.
• Working understanding of digital asset ecosystems and how on-chain data can be applied to compliance, risk management, and financial crime detection.
• Experience translating complex client requirements into practical technical or analytical solutions.
• Demonstrated success building credible and enduring relationships with senior financial institution stakeholders across compliance, risk, AML, or investigations.
• Experience communicating technical and investigative concepts to both specialist and non-specialist audiences.
• More than 6 years of professional experience.
• Bachelor's degree.

Soft Skills:

• Highly autonomous and adaptable, with the ability to operate effectively in fast-moving and ambiguous environments.
• Strong ownership mindset and sound judgement when managing complex client outcomes.
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to explain sophisticated investigative and data concepts clearly.
• Confidence engaging audiences ranging from technical analysts to C-suite banking executives.
• Strong client relationship-building and stakeholder management capabilities.
• Genuine intellectual curiosity and a self-driven approach to learning new technologies and methodologies.
• Proactive interest in developing AI fluency and applying AI to improve how intelligence and investigative work is performed.
• Collaborative mindset when working across Product, Engineering, Sales, Intelligence, and client teams.

Language Requirements:

• Japanese: Native/fluent level in written and spoken Japanese; essential for this client-facing position
• English: Functional/intermediate business level for internal collaboration

Preferred Skills & Qualifications

• Experience combining financial crime or compliance expertise with technical solution architecture, analytics, or data engineering capabilities.
• Experience supporting financial institutions with AML, sanctions, fraud, investigations, or regulatory compliance solutions.
• Practical exposure to digital asset, cryptocurrency, blockchain, or on-chain intelligence use cases.
• Experience delivering technical training, investigative walkthroughs, or solution demonstrations to financial institution clients.
• Experience engaging senior or C-suite stakeholders within banks and other financial institutions.
• Familiarity with AI-driven intelligence or the practical use of AI within compliance and investigative workflows.

About the Company

Our client is a globally established risk intelligence organisation helping financial institutions, regulators, and law enforcement agencies investigate illicit activity, manage financial crime risk, and build greater trust in digital asset ecosystems.

Powered by proprietary data and AI, its intelligence capabilities support organisations dealing with increasingly sophisticated financial crime, compliance, and digital asset risks.

The organisation works globally with financial institutions and public-sector stakeholders, combining specialist intelligence, data, and technology to help clients investigate activity and strengthen risk management.

Its international environment also places significant emphasis on AI and the evolution of intelligence workflows, giving employees an opportunity to influence how emerging technologies are incorporated into real-world risk and investigative solutions.

Why You'll Love Working Here

• Join a globally recognised risk intelligence organisation trusted by financial institutions, regulators, and law enforcement agencies.
• Work at the frontier of Financial Crime Compliance, AML, digital assets, and AI-driven intelligence in the Japanese financial market.
• Apply Python, SQL, data analytics, and investigative intelligence to real-world financial crime and compliance challenges.
• Take ownership across the complete client lifecycle, rather than being limited to traditional pre-sales activities.
• Work directly with compliance, risk, investigative, and senior banking stakeholders.
• Combine technical solution design with financial crime expertise and meaningful client advisory responsibilities.
• Join a diverse international team that values different professional backgrounds and perspectives.
• Work in an organisation where AI is incorporated into daily workflows and employees are encouraged to shape new approaches to intelligence.
• Build specialist expertise at the intersection of banking, AML, blockchain intelligence, compliance, data, and AI.
• Competitive compensation package.

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