Software Architect

Slb; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

SLB seeks a Senior Data Architect to lead the design of data products and AI-enabled capabilities on SLB's enterprise platform. You will act as the senior technical anchor for the OSS Beacon AI programme, translating business needs into scalable data architectures and reusable components.

You will define AI/ML solution architecture for large organizations, partner with a central platform team, and guide a small team of engineers and junior architects.

Qualifications

• Senior data architecture experience, ideally within a federated / data-mesh or Google Cloud (BigQuery, Dataplex) environment — someone who has worked as a consuming domain on a central platform, not just built standalone systems.
• Track record specifying data products and getting a central/platform team to deliver against them.
• Track record of AI/ML solution architecture and, ideally, agent or API integration.
• Strong stakeholder skills — this role is as much diplomacy with the platform team as it is technical design.
• Energy sector / industrial data experience is a plus, not essential.

Responsibilities

• Define and specify the AI/ML solution architecture for large organizations.
• Define and specify the data products OSS requires from SLB Enterprise AI, so they can be built once and consumed reliably.
• Technical interface and working relationship with the SLB Enterprise AI platform team.
• Design the consumption architecture on the OSS side — how delivered data feeds AI characters, agents, and analytics across the value streams.
• Provide technical leadership to a small team of data engineers and junior architects.
• Serve as technical owner of the OSS AI Characters/Persona working within SLB security and governance.
• Translate between business/operational needs and technical feasibility — the bridge between the digital leads' demand and what actually gets built.

Skills

Senior data architecture

Data mesh

GA/Cloud (GCP)

AI/ML architecture

APIs integration

Stakeholder management

Data products

Tools

BigQuery

Dataplex

Google Cloud

Job description

Purpose: Architect how OneSubsea specifies, consumes, and applies data and AI capability built on SLB's enterprise platform, translating business needs across the value streams into well-defined data products and the solutions built on them. This is the senior technical anchor of the OSS Beacon AI programme.

Key responsibilities (high level):

• Define and specify the AI/ML solution architecture for large organizations.
• Define and specify the data products OSS requires from SLB Enterprise AI, so they can be built once and consumed reliably.
• Technical interface and working relationship with the SLB Enterprise AI platform team.
• Design the consumption architecture on the OSS side — how delivered data feeds AI characters, agents, and analytics across the value streams.
• Provide technical leadership to a small team of data engineers and junior architects.
• Serve as technical owner of the OSS AI Characters/Persona working within SLB security and governance.
• Translate between business/operational needs and technical feasibility — the bridge between the digital leads' demand and what actually gets built.

Experience profile (what to screen for):

• Senior data architecture experience, ideally within a federated / data-mesh or Google Cloud (BigQuery, Dataplex) environment — someone who has worked as a consuming domain on a central platform, not just built standalone systems.
• Track record specifying data products and getting a central/platform team to deliver against them.
• Track record of AI/ML solution architecture and, ideally, agent or API integration.
• Strong stakeholder skills — this role is as much diplomacy with the platform team as it is technical design.
• Energy sector / industrial data experience is a plus, not essential.