Architecture Risk & Governance Lead
Core
Lead Institutional and Corporate Architecture Governance operations, ensuring architecture assessments, risk practices, control activities, records, reporting, and committee operations are executed consistently, transparently, and auditable.
Role type
Senior IC Architecture Risk & Governance Lead
Builds
Institutional and Corporate Architecture Governance operating model and disciplined execution across intake, prioritization, assessment readiness, decision capture, action tracking, escalation, evidence management, and management information.
Domain
Financial Services / Enterprise Architecture & Risk Governance
Deliverable
dashboards & analysis
Required skills
Architecture governance operations, risk identification and assessment, control design and evidence management, audit readiness, executive reporting, stakeholder management, process modernization, workflow automation, data quality improvement, change leadership
Preferred skills
None stated
Technologies
None stated
Responsibilities
Lead governance operations including intake, prioritization, workflows, meeting readiness, decision capture, minutes, action tracking, escalation, and performance measures; Ensure assessments, decisions, accommodations, risks, and follow-up actions are consistently executed, documented, traceable, and aligned to standards; Own the quality and integrity of Architecture Assessment Logs, supporting evidence, decision records, risk inventories, accommodations, exceptions, and remediation commitments; Establish documentation standards and quality checks for scope, findings, recommendations, decisions, conditions, ownership, target dates, approvals, and closure evidence; Lead architecture risk management including identification, assessment, classification, escalation, treatment, monitoring, and closure of risks; Maintain an auditable inventory of architecture risks, accommodations, exceptions, risk acceptances, compensating controls, treatment decisions, milestones, review dates, and approvals; Provide review and challenge of material architecture risks, remediation plans, recurring findings, technical debt, modernization gaps, resiliency concerns, control gaps, and deviations from architecture direction; Define and operate preventive and detective controls across intake, assessment, decision recording, accommodation, escalation, action tracking, and closure; Develop KRIs, KCIs, service measures, control evidence expectations, escalation thresholds, governance health checks, and executive reporting on risk exposure, control effectiveness, themes, and remediation progress; Support audits, regulatory examinations, assurance reviews, evidence collection, findings management, and remediation through closure; Drive process modernization, workflow automation, data quality improvement, assessment transparency, operating efficiency, and scalable governance practices.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC