Solutions Architect

Baker Hughes Holdings LLC; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical care options

Life insurance

Disability programs

Tailored financial programs

Additional voluntary benefits

Job summary

Baker Hughes Holdings LLC is seeking a seasoned Solutions Architect to design scalable digital architectures that translate complex business needs into robust technical solutions. You will influence project timelines, budgets, and governance while driving standardization for scale, stability, and value.

You will lead architectural oversight, collaborate with product managers, designers, and QA, and mentor teams to deliver AI-enabled digital products and services with a focus on security and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, STEM fields, or equivalent.
• 8+ years designing cloud infrastructure for enterprise products.
• Experience designing AI-enabled business solutions with LLMs, RAG, AI agents, data security and governance.

Responsibilities

• Translate business requirements into scalable technical architectures.
• Ensure architecture governance, standards, and scalable patterns across projects.
• Present architecture proposals to stakeholders and justify tech choices.
• Lead and mentor architecture and engineering teams to achieve goals.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, QA to align project outcomes.
• Identify and mitigate technical risks and drive project delivery.

Skills

Cloud architecture design

AI/ML solutions

Enterprise data architecture

Security governance

Cloud platforms AWS Azure GCP

Infrastructure as code

CI/CD pipelines

Stakeholder communication

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or STEM

Tools

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

AWS CodeBuild

CodeDeploy

GitHub Actions

Python

Java

Job description

Are you excited about the opportunity to design technical solution in a team within an industry leader in Energy Technology?

Join our team

Our Solution Architecture Team provides technical solutions to domain businesses, products and services, and your digital technology architecture skills will be crucial in guiding our teams to solve complex challenges and innovate for the future.

Partner with the best

As a Solutions Architect, you will leverage your expertise in delivering high-quality technical designs with focus on converting complex business requirements into technical architecture solutions. Your role will involve contributing technical architecture oversight to project timelines, budgets, and ensuring that the design and alignment of technology meet technical governance standards, and standardizing patterns to enable scale, stability, and consistency.

As a Solutions Architect, you will be responsible for:

• Understanding the business requirements to come up with technical solutions in form of digital products or services. Assessing conception designs to provide and give explanation for purposed solution.
• Enforcing policies, processes, and frameworks used to guide the development, deployment, maintenance of technology within the business.
• Giving presentation of ideas and projects to business stockholders, explaining proposed architecture solution, presenting their findings, and having the ability to explain why a product may not fit business needs.
• Overseeing the hiring and training of team members to ensure they are equipped with the skills and knowledge needed to successfully deliver the team's strategic goals.
• Working closely with stakeholders, such as product managers, designers, and quality assurance professionals, to ensure project alignment with business goals.
• Ensuring continuous business improvement according to benchmarks and standards and decisions related to technology choices, design /architectural considerations, and implementation strategy.
• Driving projects forward when setbacks occur.
• Fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement, encouraging team members to explore new ideas and technologies.
• Identifying and mitigating technical risks.

Fuel your passion

To be successful in this role, you will:

• Have a Bachelor's degree in computer science, "STEM" Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math),
• Have a minimum of 8 years experience in designing cloud infrastructure with commercial/enterprise products.
• Have experience designing and deploying AI-enabled business solutions, with expertise in LLMs, RAG, AI agents, enterprise data architecture, security, governance, and cloud AI platforms while ensuring scalability, compliance, and business value.
• Have technical knowledge of Cloud Compute, Networking, Cybersecurity, Container Engines, Database, Storage, CICD...
• Have some experience with programming languages (Cloud Formation, Terraform, Python, Java, PowerShell) and with infrastructure as code development (AWS CloudFormation, AWS Code Build, Code Deploy, GitHub Actions)
• Demonstrate strong communication skills to effectively interact with stakeholders, team members, and other departments.
• Be able to address and resolve technical and managerial challenges.

Work in a way that works for you

We recognize that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns (where applicable):

• 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.

You will be eligible to participate in Company-sponsored benefit programs, including health & welfare programs and the Thrift Plan (401k). You will have a choice of coverage options that best suit your needs. Coverage options and contribution amounts are related to your benefit elections, base salary level, and specific requirements of each of these plans.

This position is eligible for our comprehensive and competitive benefits package, which can be found here, and is further eligible for additional forms of compensation such as bonuses subject to the terms of the applicable benefit plans or policies.

The Baker Hughes internal title for this role is: Digital Technology Senior Specialist - Enterprise Architecture

About Us:

We are an energy technology company that provides solutions to energy and industrial customers worldwide. Built on a century of experience and conducting business in over 120 countries, our innovative technologies and services are taking energy forward - making it safer, cleaner and more efficient for people and the planet.

Join Us:

Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company that values innovation and progress? Join us and become part of a team of people who will challenge and inspire you! Let's come together and take energy forward.

Baker Hughes Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.