Solutions Architect

bakerhughes; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical care options

Life insurance and disability programs

Tailored financial programs

401(k) Thrift Plan

Wellbeing activities

Job summary

Baker Hughes is seeking a Solutions Architect to design technical solutions within our Solution Architecture Team. You will convert complex business requirements into scalable digital architectures across cloud platforms, AI-enabled products, and enterprise data governance.

You will collaborate with product managers, designers, and QA to ensure project alignment with business goals, govern architecture decisions, and drive innovation while mentoring team members and overseeing delivery timelines

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or STEM majors.
• 8+ years designing cloud infrastructure.
• Experience deploying AI-enabled business solutions with LLMs, RAG, AI agents.
• Experience with cloud compute, networking, cybersecurity, containers, databases, storage, and CI/CD.
• Proficiency in CloudFormation, Terraform, Python, Java, and PowerShell.
• Strong stakeholder communication.

Responsibilities

• Translate business requirements into digital product or service architectures.
• Enforce policies and frameworks for development, deployment, and maintenance.
• Present architecture options to stakeholders and justify choices.
• Oversee hiring and training to achieve team goals.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and QA to align with goals.
• Drive tech choices, design considerations, and implementation strategy.
• Identify and mitigate technical risks.
• Foster innovation and continuous improvement.
• Advance projects when setbacks occur.

Skills

Cloud compute

Networking

Cybersecurity

Container engines

Databases

Storage

CI/CD

Terraform

CloudFormation

Python

Java

PowerShell

Infrastructure as code

LLMs

AI platforms

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or STEM majors

Tools

AWS CloudFormation

AWS CodeBuild

AWS CodeDeploy

GitHub Actions

Terraform

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