Challenges and issues in the system architecting for systemic risk infrastructure system: An industrial case study

Good architecture is a prerequisite for successful design, is a key determinant of system behaviour and helps to understand and manage the design, operation and behaviours of complex engineering systems. In this paper, we present architecting process challenges and success factors, the results of a case study from a UK based financial institution working on a systemic risk Infrastructure system (here the `System S2 program´). The contribution of this study is a set of issues that reflect the situation at the case-study environment. Many of the identified issues relate to non-technical areas such as Organisation Control and Governance, Methodology, Process and service and people and Data and Systems. Moreover, possible actions to deal with these issues are discussed. This paper discusses the detail of these studies.