Senior Solutions Architect

28 days ago

Houston, TX, USASenior

Responsibilities

Lead the architecture and design of digital manufacturing solutions supporting production, reliability, quality, energy, and sustainability use cases.
Define end-to-end solution architectures spanning OT systems, plant data historians, manufacturing applications, and cloud platforms.
Provide technical authority for OT/IT integration patterns, real-time data ingestion, edge architectures, and secure connectivity.
Provide innovation thought leadership, technical governance, and oversight for ITS initiatives.
Review RFPs, requirements, business needs, industry trends, and emerging technologies, translating them into business impact.
Champion high-value innovation projects with organizational leaders and develop technical innovation roadmaps.
Meet with vendors to identify strategic relationships and opportunities to improve IT value.
Develop architectural views, reference models, future-state models, transformation analyses, and roadmaps.
Assess technology and strategy impacts, identify technical or operational risks, and enforce architectural principles and industry best practices.
Collaborate across the ITS organization and communicate technical and business impacts to stakeholders at all organizational levels.

Typically 10+ years of experience in manufacturing, industrial IT, or digital transformation roles.
At least 5 years of solution or enterprise architecture experience supporting manufacturing environments.
At least 10 years of experience in a technical design or architect-level position.
Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
Strong knowledge of industrial architectures, including ISA-95 and the Purdue Model, OT networking and cybersecurity concepts, time-series data, streaming, and event-driven architectures.
Experience with Azure, directory services, collaboration tools, virtualization, data and integration platforms, SaaS, and IaaS.
General knowledge of global application functionality, including SAP.
Experience with data center design and building high-availability and disaster-recovery solutions.
Broad understanding of IT disciplines, standards, and best practices.
Experience driving technical discussions with clients, IT staff and managers, and C-level executives.
Strong analytical, verbal communication, and written communication skills.
Preferred degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
Preferred 5+ years of experience in manufacturing, petrochemical, or oil and gas industries.
Preferred experience with SAP environments, a proven record of innovation, and TOGAF certification.

10,000+ employees