Job descriptionTitle: Solution Architect
Location: Toronto, ON
Duration:12 Months Work Type: Hybrid (Onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday)
Pay Range: C$53 INC
Top Required Skills
Solution Architecture
Corporate Functions Experience
10+ Years of Relevant Experience
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.
Key Responsibilities
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
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