Solutions Architect - Financial Services

As a Solutions Architect at Chainalysis, you operate as an embedded technical advisor to banks and financial institutions. You manage the entire customer lifecycle, from deep discovery through solution design, deployment, and long-term enablement. This role sits at the intersection of analytical rigor, financial services expertise, and strategic partnership, where you build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders while helping organizations leverage Chainalysis independently to address their investigative, compliance, and financial crime challenges.

What you'll do

• Own end-to-end customer engagements with banks and financial institutions, from discovery through investigation, solution design, deployment, enablement, and ongoing value delivery
• Partner directly with banks and financial institutions to understand investigative, intelligence, compliance, fraud, AML, and operational objectives and translate them into actionable outcomes
• Design, build, and maintain custom workflows, notebooks, dashboards, queries, and data models using Chainalysis data and products
• Enable customers to operate solutions independently, building internal capability and embedding Chainalysis into their operational infrastructure
• Act as the primary technical and domain advisor for customers, building trusted relationships through hands-on expertise and credibility
• Deliver live training, demonstrations, investigative walkthroughs, and technical briefings to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Support pre-sales technical engagement for complex and strategic financial services opportunities, helping customers understand what is possible and how to achieve it
• Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, Global Intelligence, and Sales to influence the roadmap and improve offerings based on customer and market intelligence
• Develop and share financial services domain expertise, investigative techniques, and best practices that raise the capability of the wider team

What you bring

• Professional experience working directly with banks, financial institutions, or other financial services organizations
• Fluency in both spoken and written Japanese
• Experience conducting or directly supporting cryptocurrency investigations, blockchain intelligence, financial crime analysis, AML, compliance, fraud, or related work in an operational environment
• A strong understanding of how banks and financial institutions manage financial crime, compliance, risk, investigations, and digital asset exposure
• Deep familiarity with blockchain ecosystems, including BTC, ETH, stablecoins and DeFi, and how on-chain data can be used within financial crime, compliance, risk, or investigative workflows
• A track record delivering customer-facing technical solutions, whether investigative outputs, data products, or analytical workflows, in complex real-world environments
• The ability to build insights from large or complex datasets and communicate findings to varied audiences, from analysts to senior banking executives
• Proven success operating in fast-paced, ambiguous environments requiring ownership, adaptability, and sound judgment
• Proficiency in Python and SQL for data analysis, transformation, and solution development
• Experience building notebooks, dashboards, and analytical workflows
• A solid understanding of data modelling, querying, and working with large datasets
• The ability to quickly develop deep expertise in Chainalysis data structures, schemas, and products
• Experience in one or more relevant domains such as AML, financial crime investigations, fraud, sanctions and compliance, risk, cybercrime, or digital asset compliance
• An understanding of how banks and financial institutions operate, including their investigative workflows, regulatory environment, risk frameworks, and stakeholder structures
• The ability to apply financial services and domain expertise to shape investigative approaches, solution design, and customer advisory
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex investigative and data concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Comfort leading customer sessions, workshops, training, and technical working groups
• Experience enabling and upskilling customer teams, not just delivering outputs but building long-term customer capability
• The ability to communicate effectively with senior banking, compliance, risk, AML, and financial crime stakeholders

What we offer

• The opportunity to work with the blockchain data platform trusted by organizations worldwide to investigate illicit activity, manage risk exposure, and develop innovative market solutions
• A role where AI fluency is central to how performance is measured and where you are expected to take ownership of AI-driven outcomes and quality
• Access to tools, workflows, and space to experiment with AI capabilities and develop your own expertise

About Chainalysis

Chainalysis is the blockchain data platform that makes 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.