Senior OT Architect: PCN & IIoT Solutions Leader

Chevron Corp.; Houston, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Chevron Corp. is seeking a Principal Architect for OT PCN Solutions to own target architectures, standards, and guardrails for Chevron's OT estate.

You will oversee PCN and non-PCN OT technologies, and guide architecture concurrence, lifecycle records, and governance across global sites. The role requires extensive OT/IT infrastructure architecture experience, with leadership across large multi-site portfolios and experience with both brownfield and greenfield OT deployments.

Qualifications

• Typically 10+ years in operational technology, industrial automation, or IT infrastructure.
• Proven experience governing architecture across a large, multi-site OT portfolio.
• Experience with brownfield and greenfield OT deployments, M&A integration, and international sites.

Responsibilities

• Owns the OTPL target architecture, technology standards, and reference architectures across all OT capabilities.
• Determines the architecture assurance outcome and provides Policy 564 and Policy 575 architecture concurrence for OTPL solutions, including conditional concurrence with defined next steps.
• Decides where an approved solution may, and may not, be reused, and holds the capability boundary through named, expiring exceptions where a site cannot yet adopt the standard.
• Directs requesters to existing supported products before new products are introduced into the portfolio.
• Stewards architecture records and lifecycle status for OTPL business applications in the CMDB, moving applications to operational only after assurance is complete and retiring unowned or duplicate records.

Skills

OT Architecture

Multi-site governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, information systems, or equivalent experience

Job description

Chevron Corp. is seeking a Principal Architect for OT PCN Solutions to own target architectures, standards, and guardrails for Chevron's OT estate.

You will oversee PCN and non-PCN OT technologies, and guide architecture concurrence, lifecycle records, and governance across global sites. The role requires extensive OT/IT infrastructure architecture experience, with leadership across large multi-site portfolios and experience with both brownfield and greenfield OT deployments.