Business Architect – Third-Party Resilience & Regulatory Compliance

Job Opportunity: Senior Business Resilience Architect

Location: Cracow or Warsaw (hybrid: 6 office days/month)

Type of contract: B2B

Role Overview

We are looking for a Business Architect to join a global financial organisation and contribute to a large‑scale resilience programme focused on strengthening third‑party risk management, regulatory compliance (including DORA and PRA frameworks) and the continuity of critical services across key financial domains.

In this role, you will design clear, regulator‑ready resilience architecture, outlining how external providers support essential services, where risks and dependency gaps may occur, and how controls should operate across business and technology environments.

Responsibilities

• Map business services, processes, activities, supplier dependencies and related controls in a clear and consistent way across business and technology landscapes.
• Analyse operational and supplier‑related incidents and identify how failures propagated through processes, technologies or supplier activities.
• Identify potential failure points across critical service chains and propose resilience‑enhancing architecture.
• Translate root causes and regulatory expectations into structured, testable capability questions assessing supplier maturity and resilience.
• Define expected supplier resilience standards, covering prevention, detection, response and recovery.
• Support onboarding, assessment and full lifecycle governance of key technology suppliers, including relationship and performance oversight.
• Produce regulator‑ready documentation showing traceability from incidents and control gaps to capability questions and remediation actions.
• Work closely with technology architects, service owners and procurement to validate technical and business dependencies and align resilience controls.
• Collaborate with BI teams to shape dashboards and insights on supplier performance, control effectiveness and thematic risks.

Requirements

• Experience in business architecture, operational resilience, risk & controls, supplier governance or related areas.
• Strong understanding of end‑to‑end business processes and how technology and external suppliers support critical banking services.
• Exposure to banking domains such as payments, trading platforms, market data or investment banking.
• Experience with regulatory frameworks (DORA, PRA) or other UK/EU financial regulations.
• Ability to translate incidents, control deficiencies and technical issues into clear business narratives and architectural recommendations.
• Experience preparing documentation for senior stakeholders, regulatory review and audit.
• Comfortable working across the full technology stack with enterprise architects, service owners, procurement and risk teams.
• Strong analytical, communication and stakeholder management skills.

What we offer

• B2B contract.
• Private medical care, life insurance, and access to Multisport card.
• Stable, long‑term projects with full‑time employment.

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