Architecture and Governance Officer

Reporting to the Architecture and Technology Governance Lead the Architecture and Governance Officer will oversee the planning and implementation of architectural projects within our organization. You will be responsible for coordinating with internal teams external stakeholders and clients to ensure that architectural plans align with business objectives technology roadmaps regulatory requirements and architecture vision. Your role will involve leading virtual teams composed of architects subject matter experts and collaborating closely with other departments to deliver high-quality innovative architectural solutions.

What to expect

Key Responsibilities:

• Architecture Governance and Decision Framework:
  • Manage and evolve the Enterprise Technology and Architecture Governance framework (principles guardrails standards patterns) to ensure consistent secure resilient technology and architecture decisions across the enterprise.
  • Own and continuously improve the Architecture Review Board operating model: scope decision rights escalation paths quorum rules and decision quality KPIs.
  • Define risk-based governance: determine which changes require formal review (e.g. high criticality services customer-impacting changes regulated data material outsourcing major cloud changes).

• Regulatory and Compliance Alignment
  • Translate regulatory requirements and internal policies into architecture governance controls
  • Partner with Risk Compliance Security and Operational teams to ensure architecture governance supports:
    • ICT risk management
    • Change and configuration control
    • Incident readiness and response
    • Business continuity and disaster recovery expectations
  • Ensure architecture governance evidence supports audits regulatory exams and internal assurance (traceability from requirement design decision implementation).

• Stakeholder Management & Cross-Functional Alignment
  • Act as the architecture governance interface across Product Engineering Architecture Security Risk Compliance Procurement and Operations.
  • Present complex architecture topics clearly to senior stakeholders; facilitate pragmatic decisions balancing time-to-market with risk resilience and compliance.

• Metrics Reporting & Continuous Improvement
  • Define and measure governance KPIs
  • Use data to improve governance effectiveness: shift-left controls automation opportunities and targeted standard/pattern updates.
  • Produce concise regulator-friendly reporting for technology risk committees and executive governance forums.

What will make you successful

We are seeking professionals with:

• Bachelors degree in a related field (i.e. Architecture Business Computer Science or Information Systems) from an accredited college/university or equivalent work experience.
• 3-5 years in Architecture governance or Architecture Review Board (ARB) leadership; Enterprise/Solution/Platform architecture in complex environments; Technology risk/control design with strong engineering alignment
• Hands-on experience establishing or running ARB; Architecture Standards; Exception/Waiver process
• Experience in producing audit-ready evidence: decision records architecture risk assessments control mapping
• Demonstrated experience working in a regulated environment ideally fintech banking payments insurance or other financial services domain
• Strong facilitation skills: can drive outcomes in contentious reviews
• Familiarity with governance tooling (one or more): LeanIX ServiceNow CMDB ServiceNow IRM Confluence/Jira

What we offer

We give you the freedom to be yourself. We are creating an environment of unique individuals like you with different perspectives on the financial industry and the world. A diverse and inclusive environment in which everyones voice counts and where you can reach your full potential.

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Dont meet every single requirement At Swift we are dedicated to building a workplace where people can bring their full selves and ideas to the team so if you are excited about this role we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet every single qualification.