Chevron

Principal Solution Architect

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3 days ago
Houston, TX, USAStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Design and lead implementation of end-to-end solutions using Microsoft Azure services for the oil and gas industry.
  • Gather stakeholder requirements and translate business objectives into technical solutions.
  • Create and maintain architectural blueprints, solution designs, architecture patterns, and technical documentation.
  • Lead integration of systems and applications to support seamless data flow and interoperability.
  • Provide technical and architectural leadership to development teams throughout the project lifecycle.
  • Mentor and guide architects and engineers while promoting architecture standards and engineering best practices.
  • Review and audit existing solutions and identify opportunities for improvement.
  • Develop and present proofs of concept for proposed architectures and technologies.
  • Evaluate technology options and architectural alternatives based on business value, cost, risk, and maintainability.
  • Design for resiliency, availability, security, business continuity, compliance, and production readiness.
  • Stay current with emerging technologies, industry trends, and evolving architecture practices.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 10+ years of experience in solution architecture, software engineering, or related technical roles, including enterprise solution delivery.
  • Experience designing and implementing cloud-native solutions using Microsoft Azure services, including Azure App Service, Azure Functions, Azure DevOps, Azure Data Factory, and Azure SQL Database.
  • Expertise with architectural styles, design patterns, software development best practices, technology evaluation, and architectural trade-off analysis.
  • Experience implementing security best practices and meeting compliance requirements in the oil and gas industry.
  • Hands-on development, software engineering, or solution architecture experience with systems shipped to production.
  • Experience designing cloud-native and hybrid solutions on Azure, AWS, or GCP, including microservices, API-first and event-driven architectures, containers, Kubernetes, and infrastructure as code.
  • Practical DevOps and platform engineering experience, including CI/CD, observability, SRE practices, and resilience engineering.
  • Experience with modern data and AI platforms, including lakehouse and streaming architectures, data governance, MLOps, generative AI patterns, and responsible AI.
  • Experience with hands-on security architecture, zero trust, identity and access management, threat modeling, and secure SDLC practices.
  • Ability to collaborate across business, product, engineering, and operations teams and communicate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Demonstrated ability to mentor architects and engineers and drive adoption of architecture standards.
  • Experience in more than one industry vertical and ability to learn business domains, data, workflows, and processes quickly.
  • Preferred certifications include Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert or similar.
  • Preferred knowledge includes enterprise architecture frameworks, data integration, data warehousing, big data technologies, containerization, orchestration, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing frameworks.
  • Preferred experience includes Microsoft Foundry, agent frameworks, retrieval-augmented generation, Model Context Protocol, AI security, data governance, identity and access controls, and AI production-readiness practices.
  • Preferred familiarity with OT/IT convergence, SCADA, PI/AVEVA historians, edge computing, industrial IoT, and ISA/IEC 62443.
  • Proficiency in at least one of Python, C#, Java, or Go is a plus.

Benefits

  • Relocation will not be considered.
  • Expatriate assignments will not be considered.
  • Applications are accepted through December 4, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. Central Time.

Categories

Solutions Engineering
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