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Compliance-Native Software Architecture for Regulated Distributed Systems

Author(s) Ronak Indrasinh Kosamia
Country United States
Abstract Regulated industries such as financial services and automotive software operate under stringent compliance requirements involving traceability, auditability, policy enforcement, and controlled release behavior. In most production environments, these controls are applied as external governance overlays rather than as enforceable software architecture properties. This separation introduces architectural drift, delayed audit discovery, and elevated operational risk.

Technology or Method: This paper introduces a compliance-native software architecture model in which regulatory obligations are encoded as first-class architectural invariants. The framework formalizes policy-aware service boundaries, immutable audit propagation, runtime evidence generation, and deterministic policy-gated state transitions across client and backend systems. Compliance is modeled as a constrained architectural property rather than a post-hoc review activity.

Results: Controlled evaluation across simulated financial transaction workflows and automotive over-the-air software update pipelines demonstrates reduced audit latency, reduced policy violation blast radius, and improved traceability completeness relative to externally enforced governance models. The architecture preserves system throughput while increasing determinism of compliance observability.

Conclusions: Embedding compliance semantics directly into architectural boundaries produces stronger reliability, better audit readiness, and lower operational ambiguity than process-only approaches. The model provides a software-engineering foundation for regulated distributed systems in which compliance is treated as a runtime-verifiable system property.
Keywords auditability, compliance-native architecture, distributed systems governance, policy-as-code, regulated software systems, runtime traceability.
Field Engineering
Published In Volume 11, Issue 2, July-December 2020
Published On 2020-09-04
DOI https://doi.org/10.71097/IJAIDR.v11.i2.1947
Short DOI https://doi.org/hb49zc

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