Director, Solution Architecture

Spherical Analytics; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 360,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Context Labs is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to drive pre-sales and delivery for our emissions platform. You will bridge technical, product, and customer needs for oil & gas facilities, mentoring staff and guiding architecture across engagements.

You will define qualification standards, ensure alignment between customer solutions and platform evolution, and support post-sales handoff while communicating complex topics to non-technical stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field.
• Significant oil & gas facilities experience and ability to discuss operational challenges.
• PM/Agile certification is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Define pre-sales positioning, demo standards, and reference implementations.
• Coordinate with sales, delivery, and support to align motions.
• Define architectural principles for scalability and reuse.
• Govern emissions calculation standards and auditability.
• Lead knowledge, data integration, and platform governance.

Skills

Communication

Pre-sales

Solution architecture

Leadership

Client-facing

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

PM/Agile certification

Tools

RESTful API integration

SQL

Atlassian tools

Job description

About this position

In this role you will provide expertise to support the sale and deployment of Context Labs' products by bridging technical, product, and customer needs, with a focus on oil & gas facilities and GHG emissions expertise. The individual collaborates with sales, product, and customers to deliver demos, assess digital readiness, and solve complex data integration challenges. It is a high-visibility role in a growing company, requiring hands-on technical and client-facing support throughout the pre- and post-sales process as well as mentoring junior staff members. The position reports to the Chief Customer Officer and works closely with senior leadership.

In this role you will

• Define pre-sales technical positioning, demo standards, and reference implementation strategy
• Support executive sponsor conversations
• Ensure sales motions align with delivery and support capacity
• Establishes architectural standards and reusable system design patterns across customers
• Align solution architecture strategy with product and platform evolution

Discovery, Qualification & Delivery Governance

• Define qualification and delivery standards
• Defines discovery frameworks that ensure consistent capture of system level requirements globally
• Set minimum technical readiness criteria
• Own escalation path for all deals

Solution Design & Architecture

• Define architectural principles for scalability performance and reuse
• Ensure alignment between customer solutions and long-term platform architecture

Emissions Architecture Standards

• Define and govern standards for emissions calculation logic, methodology interpretation, and auditability across the portfolio
• Approve or reject architectural exceptions

Knowledge Engineering Standards and Governance

• Define and govern standards and processes for knowledge engineering across the portfolio ensuring integration with the CXL knowledge graph technology
• Ensure long-term maintainability of CXL knowledge graph technology

Data Integration Strategies and Standards

• Set portfolio-wide standards for asset modeling, data integration patterns, and scalability
• Ensure long-term maintainability of customer configurations

Output & Certification Governance

• Govern how certificates, compliance reports, and operational dashboards are designed and issued
• Ensure outputs remain defensible, verifiable, and regulator ready.

Implementation Support

• Establish governance to maintain architectural consistency across implementations
• Ensure adherence to system design standards globally

Sales to Delivery to Support Alignment

• Establish and enforce standards for post-sales handoff
• Align Sales, Solution Architect/Engineering, Delivery TPM, and Support expectations
• Continuously refine rules based on post go-live outcomes

Experience

• Balances revenue growth with delivery risk, regulatory exposure, and long-term platform integrity
• Builds and leads the Solution Architecture organization
• Sets standards, goals, accountability and develops future leaders
• Portfolio level understanding of emissions architecture, knowledge graph design, data integration strategy and platform scalability
• Exceptional written, presentation, and verbal communication skills
• An ability to explain technical subjects to non-technical people
• Outstanding organizational skills
• Experience with enterprise software implementations involving complex data integration and migration efforts

Preferred Experience

• Bachelor's degree in engineering (process/process safety, facilities/operations, mechanical, environmental, or similar related field).
• Significant experience in oil & gas operating facilities (upstream, midstream, or downstream) with the ability to thoroughly understand operational challenges and communicate effectively with customer personnel across functions and levels.
• Project Management and/or Agile certification is a plus.
• Solid understanding of Piping & Instrumentation Diagrams (P&IDs), Process Flow Diagrams (PFDs), Cause & Effects Charts (C&E), Electrical One-Lines, Facility Layout Drawings, and similar engineered facility drawings.
• Prior experience in software, practical understanding of modern application architectures, and/or experience with RESTful API integration would be a plus but not required.
• Experience writing SQL queries to extract, analyze, or manipulate data from relational databases; comfort navigating large or complex datasets is preferred.
• Experience with the Atlassian suite of management tools preferred.

Why You'll Like It Here

• Context Labs is collaborative at its core. You'll work within your team and across the organization allowing for continuous learning and discovery.
• We set goals that matter and provide value in all that we do, from building meaningful products to positively impacting carbon reduction and climate change.
• Context Labs' mission is to transform complex data into a trusted data fabric that delivers context-driven insights that enable human networks to spot patterns, correlate trends - and reveal the truth hidden inside the world's most complicated, persistent problems.

We understand that applying for a job can be intimidating. Applicants rarely meet every single job requirement, and we know there are many skills and backgrounds that will contribute to success in this role.

Context Labs embraces diversity and equal opportunity. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We believe the more inclusive we are, the better our products will be. Context Labs will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require accommodation, please contact Human Resources at [e-mail].

Who We Are

Context Labs is dedicated to sourcing, organizing, and contextualizing the world's climate information. The company enables data to become trusted,