Enterprise Architect – Legal Entity Onboarding (Finance & Risk)

Position: Enterprise Architect – Legal Entity Onboarding (Finance & Risk) Location: Onsite (4days/week)- Toronto, ON Job type: Full-time/Permanent hiring We are seeking a Principal Enterprise Architect to provide end-to-end technical leadership for new legal entity onboarding and restructuring initiatives across our Finance and Risk technology landscapes. In this role, you will lead cross-functional architecture governance boards, partnering with Finance, Risk, Lines of Business, and core technology squads to run deep-dive impact assessments on dataflows, integrations, reporting channels, and controls frameworks. You will define the current-state, transition, and target-state architectures, map complex cross-application dependencies, and ensure that all onboarding blueprints align perfectly with financial and regulatory reporting compliance infrastructures. Key Responsibilities: Architect Legal Entity Onboarding: Lead the end-to-end structural enterprise architecture for legal entity additions, mergers, and restructuring across corporate landscapes. Execute Impact Assessments: Conduct technical impact evaluations across distributed Finance and Risk applications, downstream data lakes, integration pipelines, and reporting frameworks. Design Target-State Blueprints: Formulate clear current-state, transition-state, and long-term target-state solution architecture diagrams and technical capability models. Coordinate Multi-App Dependencies: Isolate, map, and track complex cross-application dependencies, platform architectural gaps, and deployment risks early in the entity onboarding lifecycle. Govern Technical Frameworks: Define secure data-flow patterns, transactional routing, and integration requirements across all impacted ledger, clearing, and accounting systems. Align Regulatory Reporting: Ensure legal entity attributes are flawlessly represented across statutory financial reports, risk vectors, and external regulatory reporting pipelines. Drive Architecture Governance: Direct cross-domain review boards, resolving complex structural disputes, and ensuring alignment with enterprise security and production readiness rules. Partner across Stakeholders: Lead technical conversations, translate financial requirements into system criteria, and align executive business sponsors with engineering teams. Required Skills: Primary: Enterprise Application Architecture, Legal Entity Integration Strategy, Finance & Risk Systems Architecture, Regulatory Reporting Alignment, Cross-Application Dependency Mapping. Tools/Frameworks: Enterprise Architecture Modeling Tools (e.g., ArchiMate, Visio, Sparx Enterprise Architect), TOGAF, Ledger & Sub-Ledger architectures, Risk Controls Frameworks. Database/Cloud: Financial Data Modeling, ETL Data Fabric Pipelines, API-led Integration patterns, Secure Multi-Cloud/Hybrid Infrastructures. Nice-to-Have: Broad knowledge of banking compliance (Basel III/IV, IFRS, Dodd-Frank, CCAR), Experience managing data sovereignty or corporate restructuring data boundaries.

Lead the end-to-end technical architecture for legal entity onboarding and restructuring within Finance and Risk landscapes. Coordinate cross-functional governance boards to manage impact assessments, dataflows, and regulatory reporting compliance.

Requires deep expertise in enterprise architecture, financial systems, and regulatory reporting alignment. Proficiency with EA modeling tools and frameworks like TOGAF is essential.

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• Enterprise Application Architecture
• Legal Entity Integration Strategy
• Finance & Risk Systems Architecture
• Regulatory Reporting Alignment
• Cross-Application Dependency Mapping
• ArchiMate
• Visio
• Sparx Enterprise Architect
• TOGAF
• Ledger & Sub-Ledger Architectures
• Risk Controls Frameworks
• Financial Data Modeling
• ETL Data Fabric Pipelines
• API-led Integration Patterns
• Multi-Cloud/Hybrid Infrastructures

• Technology
• Finance & Accounting
• Management & Leadership
• Data & Analytics
• Consulting

Minimum experience

10+ years

Apply by

Sep 26, 2026

Posting language

English

Working hours

40 hours per week

Office presence

4 days per week

Seniority

Mid-Senior level

Application method

Direct apply is available