Senior Enterprise Architect, Cordant Platform (Remote)

Baker Hughes; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 148,000 - 314,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Permissive Leave

Flextime

Remote Work

Compressed Work Week

Job summary

Baker Hughes is seeking a Sr. Enterprise Architect for the Cordant platform to define the architectural direction across industrial software, OT integration, cloud, edge, and AI.

You will lead architecture across distributed systems, drive API-first, event-driven approaches, mentor engineers, and partner with product and platform teams to deliver scalable, secure, and reusable platform capabilities.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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 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.
• 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.

Skills

Cloud-native architecture

Distributed systems

API-first platforms

Data & AI platforms

Leadership / mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or related discipline

Tools

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP)

Job description

Baker Hughes is seeking a Sr. Enterprise Architect for the Cordant platform to define the architectural direction across industrial software, OT integration, cloud, edge, and AI.

You will lead architecture across distributed systems, drive API-first, event-driven approaches, mentor engineers, and partner with product and platform teams to deliver scalable, secure, and reusable platform capabilities.