Senior Enterprise Architect

Baker Hughes; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote Work options

Flextime

Compressed work week

Permissive leave

Job summary

Baker Hughes is seeking a Sr. Enterprise Architect for the Cordant platform to shape the architectural foundation of a leading industrial software suite.

You will operate at the intersection of industrial operations, cloud, edge, and AI, influencing products and platforms on a global scale. You will mentor engineers, lead architecture reviews, and partner with product, security, and cloud teams to drive reliable, scalable, and sustainable software transformations across energy, manufacturing and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or related discipline.
• Minimum 4 years leading architecture for large-scale enterprise software platforms.
• Proven track record guiding architecture across multiple teams and product domains.
• Strong understanding of modern software architecture, distributed systems, cloud-native apps, API-first platforms.
• Experience shaping enterprise architecture strategies aligned to business objectives.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to influence senior leaders.

Responsibilities

• Define and communicate the long-term architectural vision for the Cordant platform.
• Translate business strategy into scalable technical roadmaps with PM and Engineering leadership.
• Drive architectural consistency across applications, platform services, data platforms, and AI capabilities.
• Lead evolution toward a composable, API-first platform accelerating innovation.
• Establish architecture principles, standards, reference architectures and governance.

Skills

Broad architectural leadership

Distributed systems

Cloud-native

API-first platforms

Enterprise architecture

Communication & influence

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/SE or related

Job description

Sr. Enterprise Architect – Cordant™

Would you like to define the architecture of the next generation of industrial software?

Do you thrive on solving complex technical challenges that create meaningful impact for customers and industries around the world?

Fuel Your Passion

At Baker Hughes, we’re transforming how industrial enterprises leverage software, data and Artificial Intelligence to improve reliability, optimize operations and accelerate sustainability.

Sr. Enterprise Architect – Cordant™

Would you like to define the architecture of the next generation of industrial software?

Do you thrive on solving complex technical challenges that create meaningful impact for customers and industries around the world?

Fuel Your Passion

At Baker Hughes, we’re transforming how industrial enterprises leverage software, data and Artificial Intelligence to improve reliability, optimize operations and accelerate sustainability.

Industrial software presents some of the most challenging and rewarding architecture problems in technology. Cordant connects operational technology with enterprise applications, edge devices with cloud platforms, industrial data with AI and customers operating across diverse deployment models, from on-premises environments to customer-managed cloud infrastructure and fully managed SaaS.

Partner with the Best

As Sr. Enterprise Architect for the Cordant platform, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the technical direction of one of Baker Hughes’ flagship digital platforms. Working at the intersection of industrial operations, cloud computing, edge technologies and AI, you’ll help create the architectural foundation that enables intelligent industrial applications for customers across energy, manufacturing and other asset-intensive industries.

This is an opportunity to influence products on a global scale while working alongside exceptional engineers, architects, product leaders and domain experts. Your ideas won’t simply guide technical decisions; they’ll become capabilities that help customers operate safer, more efficiently and more sustainably.

This role offers the opportunity to influence technology strategy, mentor technical leaders and help shape the future of industrial software while continuing to grow your own career as a recognized technical leader. If you’re passionate about building modern software platforms, mentoring technical talent and driving meaningful transformation, we’d love to hear from you!

Key Responsibilities

As Sr. Enterprise Architect you will be performing the following duties:

Platform & Product Architecture

• Defining and communicating the long-term architectural vision for the Cordant platform.
• Partnering with Product Management and Engineering leadership to translate business strategy into scalable technical roadmaps.
• Driving architectural consistency across applications, shared platform services, developer platforms, data platforms, and AI capabilities.
• Leading architectural evolution toward a composable, API-first platform that accelerates innovation across multiple product teams.
• Establishing architecture principles, standards, reference architectures and governance that balance consistency with engineering autonomy.
• Defining reusable platform capabilities that improve scalability, security, maintainability, and developer productivity.
• Guiding modernization of existing products while enabling future platform capabilities.

Enterprise Platform Architecture

• Leading architecture across distributed systems spanning industrial edge, enterprise environments and cloud-native platforms.
• Defining deployment architectures supporting customer-managed on-premises environments, customer cloud infrastructure and Baker Hughes SaaS offerings.
• Developing integration strategies spanning operational technology (OT), enterprise IT, industrial devices, partner ecosystems and business applications.
• Championing modern architectural approaches including event-driven systems, API-first design, domain-driven design and cloud-native engineering.
• Collaborating with Platform Engineering to establish paved roads, engineering standards and reusable services that accelerate software delivery.

Data Analytics & AI

• Driving and supporting the long-term architecture for the Cordant Data & Analytics Platform.
• Establishing the enterprise architecture, principles, and technical strategy for Agentic AI across the Cordant platform.
• Establishing architectural approaches for operational data management, contextualization, semantic models, analytics, and enterprise intelligence.
• Defining reusable architectural patterns for intelligent software agents, including orchestration, memory, contextual reasoning, tool integration, and lifecycle management.
• Defining secure approaches for integrating AI agents with enterprise applications, industrial systems, and operational data.
• Establishing governance frameworks ensuring AI capabilities are trustworthy, explainable, observable, secure and aligned with Responsible AI principles.
• Enabling engineering teams through reusable AI platform services, SDKs, developer tooling and architectural guidance that accelerate adoption while maintaining consistency across the Cordant portfolio.
• Evaluating emerging AI technologies and industry standards, continuously evolving Baker Hughes’ long-term AI platform strategy.

Technical Leadership

• Mentoring architects and senior engineers while cultivating a strong architecture community across the organization.
• Leading architecture reviews and facilitate technical decision-making across multiple engineering teams.
• Influencing technology investment decisions through architectural strategy and technical thought leadership.
• Fostering collaboration across engineering, product management, UX, security, cloud infrastructure, and customer-facing organizations.
• Promoting a culture of technical excellence, continuous learning and engineering craftsmanship.

Your work will influence architecture across challenges including:

• Modernizing complex industrial software into cloud-native, composable platform capabilities.
• Supporting flexible deployment models including customer-managed on-premises, customer cloud and Baker Hughes SaaS.
• Connecting operational technology, industrial assets and enterprise systems through secure, scalable integration patterns.
• Building enterprise data and analytics capabilities that transform operational data into actionable business intelligence.
• Establishing modern platform services that accelerate delivery across multiple product teams.

Simplifying complex technology ecosystems into reusable architectural building blocks.

Creating outstanding developer experiences that enable engineering teams to innovate faster while maintaining quality, security, and consistency.

Required Qualifications

• Have a bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or related discipline.
• Have a minimum 4 years of experience with architecting large-scale enterprise software platforms
• Demonstrate success leading architecture across multiple engineering teams and product domains
• Have a solid understanding of modern software architecture including distributed systems, cloud-native applications and API-first platforms
• Have experience developing enterprise architecture strategies that align technology with business objectives
• Have solid communication skills & ability to influence technical & business leaders

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in many of the following areas is highly desirable:

Modern Software Platforms

Cloud-native architecture; Microservices; Event-driven systems; Domain-Driven Design; API-first platforms; Kubernetes and container orchestration; Platform Engineering; Developer Experience (DevEx)

Data & AI

Enterprise Data Platforms; Data Lakehouse architectures; Streaming platforms; AI/ML platforms; Agentic AI architectures; Large Language Models; Model Context Protocol (MCP); Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG); Semantic search and vector databases; Knowledge graphs; AI observability and evaluation; Responsible AI governance

Cloud & Enterprise Architecture

Azure, AWS and Google Cloud; Hybrid and multi-cloud architectures; Edge computing; Industrial IoT; Enterprise integration; Identity and security architect; Experience within industrial, manufacturing, energy or other asset-intensive industries is beneficial but not required

Work in a way that works for you

• Permissive Leave - Leave can be taken as needed for vacation, illness, or personal reasons, but must be coordinated with and approved by your manager.
• Flextime - Shift or change of hours worked over the course of a working day while still working a standard-length workday/workweek.
• Remote Work - Regular responsibilities performed away from the designated business location for a portion or entirety of the arranged work hours.
• Compressed Work Week - Reduces the number of days worked over a week while still adhering to the standard hours for the full week.

Working with us

Our people are at the heart of what we do at Baker Hughes. We know we are better when all our people are developed, engaged, and able to bring their whole authentic selves to work. We invest in the health and well-being of our workforce, train and reward talent, and develop leaders at all levels to bring out the best in each other.

Working for you

Our inventions have revolutionized energy for over a century. But to keep going forward tomorrow, we know we must push the boundaries today. We prioritize rewarding those who embrace challenge with a package that reflects how much we value their input. Join us, and you can expect:

• Contemporary work-life balance policies and wellbeing activities.
• Comprehensive private medical care options.
• Safety net of life insurance and disability programs.
• Tailored financial programs.
• Additional elected or voluntary benefits.

We foster an inclusive, collaborative environment where technical leaders are empowered to explore new ideas, challenge conventional thinking and continuously develop their careers.

You’ll have opportunities to work across global engineering teams, influence strategic technology decisions and contribute to products that make a meaningful difference for customers worldwide.

This position requires valid work authorization in the country of employment. The employer is unable to sponsor work authorization for this role at any time