The SOL Architectural Coordinator is responsible for defining, driving, and governing the architectural standards and capabilities required to ensure compliance with the client Oversight Law (including Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA)). This role acts as the technical authority connecting regulatory requirements with enterprise design, ensuring that systems, processes, and data meet stringent expectations around operational resilience, cybersecurity, oversight reporting, and ICT risk management.
The Architectural Coordinator partners closely with Legal, Compliance, Security, Risk, Technology, and Product/Core Tribes/Planning Unit to embed regulatory controls into the architecture and ensure that the organization can demonstrate compliance through evidence-based, repeatable, and scalable mechanisms. This role implies as well to connect the dots around the various on-going initiatives and surface any architectural impacts.
Key Responsibilities
1. Architecture & Compliance Alignment
• Translate SOL and DORA regulatory requirements into actionable architectural principles, blueprints, and standards.
• Surface any architectural impacts related to operational resilience, incident reporting, ICT risk management, and third-party risk management.
• Ensure architecture models, portfolios, and roadmaps reflect compliance obligations.
1. Regulatory Impact Assessment
• Provide expert input to regulatory change programs and ensure architectural traceability to SOL/DORA articles.
• Design remediation or modernization plans (Business continuity, exit plan...) where required.
1. Governance & Assurance
• Embed compliance-by-design practices into the architecture governance framework (e.g., Permits process, architecture boards).
• Provide assurance that systems and initiatives adhere to SOL/DORA requirements throughout their lifecycle.
• Collaborate with internal audit, second-line risk functions, and vendor management.
1. Operational Resilience Architecture
• Define capabilities and architecture blueprints that support ICT incident management, reporting, business continuity, and resilience testing.
• Align architecture with operational continuity objectives, covering redundancy, failover, observability, monitoring, and recovery.
1. Stakeholder Collaboration & Technical Program Management
• Serve as the trusted architecture advisor to (senior) leadership on SOL/DORA implications.
• Act as a bridge between technical teams and regulatory stakeholders to ensure clear understanding of expectations.
• Support product and engineering teams in designing compliant solutions.
1. Documentation & Evidence
• Produce high-quality architectural documentation, regulatory mappings, and impact analyses.
• Ensure evidence capturing mechanisms are built into architecture workflows and appropriate tooling (e.g., LeanIX, ServiceNow).
Qualifications & Experience
Required
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
• 8+ years of experience in Enterprise Architecture, Solutions Architecture, or Technology Risk.
• Strong understanding of operational resilience, ICT risk management, and cybersecurity architecture.
• Proven experience working with regulatory or compliance frameworks (e.g., DORA, GDPR).
• Ability to interpret regulatory texts and translate them into technical requirements.
• Solid communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills, including with senior executives.
Preferred
• Experience with Swift systems, financial market infrastructures, or critical service providers.
• General knowledge of architecture frameworks.
• Experience with architecture tooling (e.g., LeanIX).
• Experience in IT Service Management and tooling (e.g. ServiceNow)
• Background in crisis management, business continuity, or risk assurance.