AI Agents Solutions Architect Finance
Payward, Inc. is a global financial infrastructure company and the parent organization behind Kraken. It provides trading, custody, payments, lending, staking, tokenized assets, derivatives, and market data infrastructure to consumers, professional traders, institutions, enterprises, fintechs, banks, exchanges, asset managers, and onchain platforms.
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About Payward, Inc.
Payward, Inc. operates a unified financial infrastructure platform powering a portfolio of products including Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, CF Benchmarks, and Payward Services. Its shared architecture provides global liquidity, risk and margin management, collateral and settlement, compliance and licensing, and operational infrastructure across crypto, tokenized assets, and traditional markets. Through Payward Services, the company offers APIs and infrastructure for crypto trading, custody, on/off-ramps, tokenized equities, derivatives, staking and yield, payments, and benchmark data. Payward operates across more than 190 jurisdictions and serves consumers, professional traders, institutional investors, enterprises, fintechs, banks, exchanges, asset managers, and DeFi/onchain protocols.
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About the Role
You will architect and build an AI-native finance operating system. You will map finance operations, deploy production agentic workflows, integrate financial systems, establish AI governance and audit controls, create reusable frameworks, train finance professionals, and measure automation performance and risk outcomes.
Requirements
- Production deployment of agentic AI systems
- LLM orchestration
- Multi-agent system design
- Systems architecture
- Claude and Anthropic APIs
- Python-based orchestration
- n8n or equivalent workflow engines
- MCP or similar agent coordination layers
- Finance operations
- Close processes
- Reconciliations
- Treasury
- Financial reporting
- Controls
- SOX-regulated environment
- AI governance
- Auditability
- Human-in-the-loop checkpoints
- Failure detection
- Rollback mechanisms
- Regulatory compliance
- Technical roadmaps
- Stakeholder communication
Responsibilities
- Evaluate finance workflows and identify bottlenecks
- Map finance systems and integration failure points
- Build the finance automation roadmap
- Translate finance pain points into automation requirements
- Design the AI-native finance operating system architecture
- Build an agentic finance layer
- Deploy production finance automation workflows
- Integrate APIs, data sources, and internal systems
- Maintain human oversight and control integrity
- Establish AI governance guardrails
- Define data classification and auditability frameworks
- Classify automation builds by risk tier
- Create reusable workflow frameworks and templates
- Train finance professionals on AI-assisted tools
- Build automation performance metrics and dashboards
- Report on operational improvements and risk posture
Benefits
- Bonus program
- Equity program
- Wellness allowance
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k)
