Senior GRC Enterprise Architect – Banking

FinXL; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

FinXL is recruiting an Enterprise Architect (GRC) to lead architectural strategy for a major banking client in Sydney. You will assess a 40+ application GRC ecosystem, design target-state patterns, and drive modernization and platform consolidation at scale.

The role requires deep expertise in risk, compliance, and governance architectures, data virtualization, and AI readiness within regulated environments, with senior stakeholder engagement.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of IT experience in banking/financial services, focusing on Risk, Compliance and Governance architectures.
• Experience with large-scale EA, application rationalization and target-state design.
• Hands-on with GRC/IRM platforms.
• Knowledge of data architectures: data mesh, virtualization, lakehouses, API-driven SaaS.
• Strong executive communication to C-level committees.

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 unified data and analytics overlay layers versus full platform consolidation.
• Formulate strategic criteria for application retention, modernization, platform consolidation, and decommissioning.
• Design target-state integration patterns enabling real-time risk reporting and governance.

Skills

GRC/IRM platforms

Enterprise architecture

Data mesh

Data virtualization

AI in regulated environments

Executive communication

Banking/financial services domain

Risk and compliance domain

Job description

FinXL is recruiting an Enterprise Architect (GRC) to lead architectural strategy for a major banking client in Sydney. You will assess a 40+ application GRC ecosystem, design target-state patterns, and drive modernization and platform consolidation at scale.

The role requires deep expertise in risk, compliance, and governance architectures, data virtualization, and AI readiness within regulated environments, with senior stakeholder engagement.