Digital Solution Architect

• Work closely with key stakeholders to develop the digital strategy, roadmaps, and partner with implementation teams to ensure successful delivery of digital platforms.
• Review and analyze user requirements, recommend and develop solution proposals to meet customer requirements, ensuring alignment with enterprise-wide digital architecture strategy.
• Review business processes and functional requirements to optimize solution architecture, recommending potential options, selecting the most optimal option, and developing a roadmap for the selected solution.
• Participate in technology selection, control solution development, and support project management.
• Communicate the optimized architecture to stakeholders, collaborate and coordinate with existing domain architects in formalizing and adopting proposed standards and procedures.
• Ensure proposed solutions fulfill functional requirements and comply with technology solution standards guidelines.
• Support architectural aspects of all digital plant application projects.
• Perform digital architecture governance function by conducting formal reviews of project artifacts to ensure alignment with overall digital architecture vision.
• Develop policies and standards for digital platform governance and solutions architecture.
• Develop and maintain digital platform architecture blueprints.
• Communicate and present digital architecture proposals to peers and senior management.
• Develop business architecture and capability maps guidance for the delivery team.
• Design scalable and integrated digital solutions.
• Ensure seamless integration of solutions into D&TMD's existing ecosystem.

Requirements:

• This role required candidate to permanently relocate at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
• Hold a Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or engineering; a Master's degree is preferred.
• Possess a minimum of 10 years of experience as a solution architect within refining or gas plants, with strong knowledge in designing, implementing, and commissioning digital plant solutions for refinery or gas plants.
• Certification such as Fundamentals of Engineering, Professional Engineering, Chartered Engineer, or equivalent is highly desirable.
• Proficient in ISA 95 Model Architecture and its associated functions.
• Familiarity with enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF or Zachman, and architecture analysis for decomposing business processes into functional, application, and data architectures.
• Skilled in software technologies and vendors evaluation and selection based on quantitative decision analysis methods.
• Previous experience in developing business cases and conducting benefit/cost analysis for Digital Plant solutions.
• Certification in TOGAF, Open Group Open Certified Architect (Open CA), or any other relevant architecture certification desired.
• Demonstrated solid understanding of the latest digital technologies including Artificial Intelligence, blockchain, IoT, data science and analytics, cloud computing, Integration, DB technologies (relational, timeseries), etc.
• Experience in designing and deploying solutions in cloud-native enterprise applications in public, private, and hybrid cloud models (AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenShift).