Enterprise Architect – Cloud & AI Solution Design

SBM Offshore; Rotterdam; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

SBM Offshore is seeking an IT Solutions Architect to design and govern end-to-end solution architectures for IT and Digital initiatives. The role ensures architectures are secure, scalable, and compliant with SBM Offshore IT standards while working within the Enterprise Architecture team.

You will design across application, data, integration, infrastructure, and security domains, favor Azure-based solutions, and produce documentation such as HLDs, TADs, ADRs to guide multi‑vendor delivery and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, systems engineering, or a related field.
• Master’s degree preferred but not mandatory.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain end-to-end solution architectures aligned with SBM Offshore standards, principles, and reference architectures.
• Translate business and functional requirements into robust, scalable, secure, and supportable solution designs across application, data, integration, infrastructure, and security domains.
• Evaluate SaaS solutions, cloud services, and technology platforms against SBM Offshore architecture, security, integration, data, and compliance requirements.
• Support technology qualification, proof-of-concept activities, and vendor architecture assessments.
• Review vendor solution designs and challenge non-standard approaches where required.
• Actively reuse and adapt existing reference architectures, patterns, and building blocks to ensure consistency and accelerate delivery
• Produce and maintain solution architecture documentation, including High-Level and Low-Level Designs, throughout the initiative lifecycle
• Ensure compliance with the Company Digital initiative execution process and architecture governance framework
• Work closely with Digital Solution Leads, IT Project Managers, and delivery teams across multiple concurrent initiatives
• Participate in, and where relevant lead architecture and technical design workshops during delivery phases
• Ensure architectural decisions, risks, and deviations are documented, traceable, and aligned with EA governance
• Design solutions leveraging Microsoft Azure technologies (IaaS, PaaS, integration, security, and data platform services)
• Assess platforms, services, and solution components against SBM Offshore IT guidelines and reference architectures
• Provide clear architectural recommendations, including trade‑off analysis and design rationale
• Contribute to RFI/RFP activities by defining and reviewing technical and security architecture requirements
• Ensure solutions align with enterprise data architecture, integration standards, and information management requirements.
• Exposure to industrial and enterprise platforms (AVEVA, IFS, Cognite) is considered a strong asset
• Maintain solution architecture artifacts within the Enterprise Architecture toolset (experience with Bizzdesign HOPEX is a strong plus)
• Promote reuse, standardization, and simplification through architectural patterns, standards, and reference architectures
• Collaborate effectively with business stakeholders, IT delivery teams, and architecture peers
• Facilitate alignment across architecture domains
• Act as a trusted architectural advisor during solution design and delivery, particularly in complex, multi-vendor environments

Skills

Azure architecture

Solution design

Enterprise architecture

Security compliance

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Bizzdesign HOPEX

Azure

Job description

SBM Offshore is seeking an IT Solutions Architect to design and govern end-to-end solution architectures for IT and Digital initiatives. The role ensures architectures are secure, scalable, and compliant with SBM Offshore IT standards while working within the Enterprise Architecture team.

You will design across application, data, integration, infrastructure, and security domains, favor Azure-based solutions, and produce documentation such as HLDs, TADs, ADRs to guide multi‑vendor delivery and