Principal Lead, Enterprise Compliance

About the role

The Principal Lead, Enterprise Compliance is accountable for the end-to-end ownership, delivery and strategic evolution of the technology platforms supporting the Compliance function, including AML/KYC, sanctions screening, conduct risk, surveillance and regulatory reporting. The role leads engineering and delivery teams, ensures platform resilience and scalability, and aligns technology strategy with enterprise architecture, regulatory mandates and compliance leadership.

Key responsibilities

• Lead engineering and delivery teams for compliance platforms such as the Fircosoft suite (sanctions screening), Fenergo (client lifecycle management) and SAS AML (transaction monitoring).
• Define and execute the compliance technology roadmap aligned with strategic priorities and regulatory timelines.
• Own platform architecture decisions and ensure interoperability with core banking, risk and finance systems.
• Drive modernization initiatives including cloud migration, API enablement and integration with data lakes and case management systems.
• Translate regulatory requirements into platform capabilities with Compliance stakeholders and promote AI/ML adoption in transaction monitoring, risk scoring and anomaly detection.
• Establish governance frameworks, delivery scorecards and KPIs, and track metrics such as platform uptime, alert resolution rates and regulatory submission accuracy.
• Partner with enterprise architecture, infrastructure and data teams, and contribute to budgeting, vendor selection and contract management.

Required profile

• Overall experience of 15+ years, with 10+ years in banking.
• Proven experience delivering platforms across AML, KYC, sanctions and regulatory reporting.
• Deep understanding of compliance frameworks, conduct risk and surveillance technologies.
• Skilled in leading cross-functional engineering teams and managing compliance solution providers, system integrators and SaaS platforms.

Required skills

• Architecture and engineering oversight of secure, scalable, modular compliance platforms.
• Familiarity with FATF, OFAC, GDPR, local central bank regulations and global compliance standards.
• Experience with compliance data models, case management and reporting tools.