Preparing for DORA: What Integration Architects Must Know.

The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) is reshaping how financial institutions think about technology. While much of the attention has focused on cybersecurity and compliance teams, integration architects are quietly taking centre stage in building digital resilience. 

What DORA Expects From Your Tech Stack 

• Real time monitoring across systems: Early detection of errors and anomalies through observability tools is key to preventing incidents before they escalate. (McKinsey) 

• End to end traceability: Auditable records of how data flows through integrations are essential for root cause analysis, compliance reporting, and rollback. 

• Resilience testing: Simulating failure scenarios ensures systems can recover swiftly and minimise disruption. 

The Integration Architect’s Role 

• Map interdependencies: Documenting how services depend on each other helps reduce cascading failures and supports proactive mitigation strategies. 

• Auditability and change control: Integrations must have logs, approval workflows, and rollback options to support compliance. 

• Resilient architecture design: Failover, redundancy, and rollback automation are now minimum requirements, not nice to haves. 

According to New Relic’s 2024 State of Observability for Financial Services and Insurance, only 26% of surveyed organisations had full stack observability, meaning 74% still lack complete integration visibility. 

How arrt Helps: 
Our team supports integration audits and remediation plans tailored to DORA expectations. Our white paper on configuration data outlines how poor visibility into configuration is often the weakest link in operational resilience. 

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