Digital Architect - Relocate To Saudi Arabia

Saudi Aramco; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional development programs

Challenging and rewarding work environment

Investment in technology

Global project opportunities

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Digital Architect to drive digital transformation initiatives. This role involves developing and governing enterprise digital architecture, collaborating with stakeholders to create impactful digital strategies, and ensuring alignment with overall business objectives. The successful candidate will leverage their extensive experience in solution design, cloud computing, and emerging technologies to lead innovative projects that tackle complex challenges in the energy sector. Join a company renowned for its commitment to talent development and work on world-scale projects that shape the future of energy.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years’ experience in solutions design & development.
• TOGAF or relevant Architecture certification is desired.
• Solid understanding of digital technologies including AI and blockchain.

Responsibilities

• Develop digital strategy and roadmaps in collaboration with stakeholders.
• Conduct governance reviews of digital architecture and projects.
• Lead major programs and initiatives to address business challenges.

Skills

Digital Architecture

Solution Design

Cloud Computing

Artificial Intelligence

Blockchain

Data Science

Integration Architecture

Microservices

Education

Bachelor Degree in Computer Science

Master Degree in Computer Science

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

OpenShift

Job description

Aramco occupies a unique position in the global energy industry. We are the world's largest producer of hydrocarbons (oil and gas), with the lowest upstream carbon intensity of any major producer.

With our significant investment in technology and infrastructure, we strive to maximize the value of the energy we produce for the world along with a commitment to enhance Aramco’s value to society.

Headquartered in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and with offices around the world, we combine market discipline with a generations’ spanning view of the future, born of our nine decades experience as responsible stewards of the Kingdom’s vast hydrocarbon resources.

Overview

We are seeking a Digital Architect to join our Digital Platforms & Architecture Design Division (DP&ADD) within the Digital Transformation Organization.

DP&ADD is responsible for Digital Platforms Architecture Design & Governance function which includes developing, maintaining and updating the enterprise digital reference architecture. DP&ADD also lead the cross organizational Digital Architecture Technical Review teams and establish all digital platforms architecture, design and technology principles and guidelines.

Your primary role will be to develop digital reference architecture, solution architecture, related standards, architecture patterns and partnering with IT and business stakeholders to create business values across the value chain.

Key Responsibilities

As the successful candidate you will be required to perform the following:

1. Accelerate digitalization by working closely with key stakeholders to develop the digital strategy, roadmaps and partner with implementation teams to ensure the successful delivery of the digital platforms.
2. Review and analyze user requirements, recommend and develop solution proposals to meet customer’s requirements and ensuring the alignment with enterprise-wide digital architecture strategy.
3. Perform the digital architecture governance function by conducting formal reviews of the project artefacts to ensure alignment with the overall digital architecture vision.
4. Develop policies, standards, and processes for digital platforms governance and solution architecture.
5. Develop, maintain, and govern enterprise digital reference architecture and digital platforms portfolio.
6. Develop solutions architecture design documents addressing integration, data, security, and infrastructure requirements.
7. Lead major programs, collaboration, and engagements with stakeholders to develop global platforms and initiatives addressing business and technology challenges.
8. Conduct technical evaluation of solutions, platforms, and new technologies.
9. As the successful candidate you will hold a Bachelor Degree in computer science, information technology, or engineering. A Master Degree is preferred.
10. You should have a minimum of 7 years’ experience in solutions design & development, digital enterprise architecture, application design & development, platforms, databases, Integration and cloud platforms.
11. The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) Open Group Open Certified Architect (Open CA) or any other relevant Architecture certification is desired.
12. You must be able to demonstrate a solid understanding of the latest digital technologies including Artificial Intelligence, blockchain, IoT, data science and analytics, cloud computing, Integration, DB technologies (relational, timeseries) etc.
13. Experience in designing and deploying solutions in cloud-native enterprise applications in public, private and hybrid cloud models (AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenShift) is also required.
14. You must also have a deep understanding of the service oriented (microservices), headless and event driven and Integration architecture.
15. You should also show ability to lead the development of architecture runways required across projects within a domain and provides day-to-day technical leadership/ guidance to the delivery team.

Working environment

Our high-performing employees are drawn by the challenging and rewarding professional, technical and industrial opportunities we offer, and are remunerated accordingly.

At Aramco, our people work on truly world-scale projects, supported by investment in capital and technology that is second to none. And because, as a global energy company, we are faced with addressing some of the world’s biggest technical, logistical and environmental challenges, we invest heavily in talent development.

We have a proud history of educating and training our workforce over many decades. Employees at all levels are encouraged to improve their sector-specific knowledge and competencies through our workforce development programs – one of the largest in the world.