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. 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