Senior Solution Architect - Global Risk & Audit Portfolio

Role:  Senior Solution Architect – Global Risk & Audit Portfolio

Location : Toronto - Hybrid (3 Days at Office)

Role Overview

The Senior Solution Architect – Global Risk & Audit Portfolio is responsible for end-to-end solution architecture across enterprise risk, financial risk, and audit transformation initiatives. This role ensures risk, audit, and financial risk technology solutions are cohesive, scalable, and regulator-ready while aligning with enterprise architecture standards.

The architect will enable automation, advanced analytics, and AI-driven capabilities across the Risk function, working closely with internal teams and strategic technology partners.

• Own solution architecture for large-scale Risk and Audit initiatives spanning:
  

  • Risk intelligence
    
  • Financial risk modernization
    
  • Integrated audit programs
    
• Define current-state, transition-state, and target-state architectures aligned with enterprise technology strategy and approved delivery roadmaps.
  
• Act as the architecture design authority, ensuring consistency and interoperability across group functions and business domains.
  
• Lead architecture for enterprise GRC and risk management platforms, ensuring they operate as authoritative systems of record.
  
• Define clean integration patterns, data ownership models, and extensibility approaches to support evolving Risk and Audit capabilities.
  

• Architect solutions supporting financial risk transformation initiatives, including:
  

  • Centralized risk and financial data repositories
    
  • Integration with market data, stress testing, and analytics platforms
    
  • Alignment with enterprise data and analytics ecosystems
    
• Ensure interoperability between financial risk platforms, GRC systems, and enterprise data environments.
  
• Define solution patterns for AI-enabled and advanced analytics use cases across Risk functions.
  
• Ensure AI and analytics solutions meet governance, explainability, and regulatory expectations while integrating seamlessly into end-to-end risk workflows.
  

• Lead architecture governance activities, including:
  

  • Design reviews
    
  • Trade-off analysis
    
  • Solution walkthroughs
    
• Partner with Program Managers, Product Owners, and delivery teams to translate architecture into executable roadmaps and phased implementations.
  

• Ensure alignment with enterprise standards for:
  

  • Security
    
  • Data management
    
  • Privacy
    
  • Resiliency
    
• Act as a trusted architecture advisor to senior Risk, Technology, and Business stakeholders.
  
• Communicate complex architectural concepts in business-relevant language for executive forums, steering committees, and planning cycles.
  
• Collaborate closely with internal architecture, data, security teams, and external strategic vendors.
  

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Solution Architecture.
  

• Experience within corporate functions, ideally in regulated industries such as:
  

  • Financial Services
    
  • Insurance
    
  • Risk-intensive environments
    
• Proven experience architecting large-scale, multi-program platforms across complex portfolios.
  

• Strong hands-on architecture experience with:
  

  • GRC platforms
    
  • Risk management platforms
    
  • Audit platforms (commercial or custom-built)
    

• Solid understanding of risk management domains, including:
  

  • Operational Risk
    
  • Financial Risk
    
  • Audit
    
  • Compliance
    

Essential Skills

• End-to-end Solution Architecture
  
• Enterprise Risk and Audit Transformation
  
• Financial Risk Architecture
  
• GRC Platform Architecture
  
• Enterprise Integration Patterns
  
• Data Architecture and Analytics Ecosystems
  
• AI-Enabled Risk Solutions
  
• Architecture Governance and Design Reviews
  
• Stakeholder Management and Executive Communication
  
• Security, Privacy, and Resiliency Standards Compliance