Enterprise Architect (GRC)

FinXL IT Professional Services; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

FinXL IT Professional Services in Sydney CBD is recruiting an Enterprise Architect (GRC) for a 12+ month contract with a leading Banking client. You will define the target-state blueprint, assess data virtualization layers, and drive platform migration strategies to meet regulatory mandates.

You will lead architecture governance, engage with C-level stakeholders, and guide modernization across 40+ applications with a hybrid work model in Sydney CBD.

Qualifications

• Over 15 years of IT experience within banking or financial services, focusing on Risk, Compliance and Governance architectures.
• Extensive background in Enterprise Architecture, including large-scale application rationalization and target-state design.
• Hands-on architectural exposure to major enterprise GRC/IRM platforms.
• Strong knowledge of modern data architectures (data mesh, virtualization, lakehouses, API-driven SaaS).
• Deep familiarity with modern workflow orchestration engines and AI capabilities in regulated environments.
• Understanding of key regulatory frameworks and operational risk mandates.
• Superior executive communication skills for presenting to C-level committees.
• 12+ months contract with a Banking client.
• Hybrid working model with 3 fixed days/week in Sydney CBD.

Responsibilities

• Execute a current-state architecture audit across 40+ risk and compliance applications.
• Evaluate data flows, integration patterns, and manual processes across risk domains.
• Assess feasibility and ROI for data/analytics overlay vs platform consolidation.
• Formulate criteria for application retention, modernization, and decommissioning.
• Design target-state integration patterns for real-time risk reporting and governance.
• Benchmark capabilities against modern enterprise solutions and assess AI readiness in compliance.
• Partner with executive leaders to build business cases and transformation roadmaps.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture

GRC/IRM platforms

Executive communication

C-level stakeholder engagement

Data architectures

AI capabilities

Regulatory frameworks

Banking/Finance domain

Data virtualization

Tools

GRC/IRM platforms

Data virtualization

Job description

FinXL IT Professional Services – Sydney CBD NSW

Join our Architecture Practice, and support key long-term programs of work!

FinXL Professional Services is a leading IT consultancy that partners with clients to bridge the gap between business needs and technology capabilities. Since 2003, we've been delivering high-value ICT services across government, finance, telecommunications, and enterprise sectors.

FinXL is seeking an Enterprise Architect (GRC) to join our consulting team and be deployed with a leading Banking client on a 12+ months contract in Sydney CBD. This position requires deep strategic vision and technical enterprise architectural authority to assess, rationalize, and modernize a complex GRC technology ecosystem spanning over 40 applications. You will serve as the architectural lead delivering a target-state blueprint, evaluating data virtualization layers, embedded AI capabilities, and driving platform migration strategies to align technology with critical regulatory mandates. Support key long-term programs of work! GRC technologies, banking/finance background and current state assessment!

Responsibilities

• Execute a comprehensive current-state architecture audit and discovery across 40+ risk and compliance applications.
• Evaluate existing data flows, custom integration patterns, workflow bottlenecks, and manual processes across all risk domains.
• Assess architectural feasibility and ROI for introducing unified data and analytics overlay layers versus total platform consolidation.
• Formulate strategic criteria for application retention, modernization, platform consolidation, and legacy system decommissioning.
• Design target-state integration patterns that enable real-time risk reporting, automated issue tracking, and cross-functional governance.
• Benchmark platform capabilities against modern enterprise solutions and evaluate AI and machine learning readiness within compliance frameworks.
• Partner with executive technology leaders and C-suite business stakeholders to build business cases and transformation roadmaps.

Key Skills & Experience

• Over 15 years of IT experience within banking or financial services, specializing in Risk, Compliance, and Governance domain architectures.
• Extensive background in Enterprise Architecture, including large-scale application rationalization and target-state strategy design.
• Hands-on architectural exposure to major enterprise GRC/IRM platforms.
• Strong knowledge of modern data architectures, including data mesh, virtualization, lakehouses, and API-driven enterprise SaaS frameworks.
• Deep familiarity with modern workflow orchestration engines and operationalizing AI capabilities within regulated environments.
• Practical understanding of key regulatory frameworks and operational risk mandates.
• Superior executive communication skills with a proven ability to present complex technical strategies directly to C-level committees.
• 12+ months contract with a Banking client.
• Hybrid working model with 3 fixed days/ week in the office in Sydney CBD.