Aramco energizes the world economy.

Aramco occupies a special position in the global energy industry. We are one of the world's largest producers of hydrocarbon energy and chemicals, with among the lowest Upstream carbon intensities of any major producer.

With our significant investment in technology and infrastructure, we strive to maximize the value of the energy we produce for the world along with a commitment to enhance Aramco's value to society.

Headquartered in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and with offices around the world, we combine market discipline with a generations' spanning view of the future, born of our nine decades experience as responsible stewards of the Kingdom's vast hydrocarbon resources. This responsibility has driven us to deliver significant societal and economic benefits to not just the Kingdom, but also to a vast number of communities, economies, and countries that rely on the vital and reliable energy that we supply.

We are one of the most profitable companies in the world, as well as amongst the top five global companies by market capitalization.

Overview

We are seeking a Digital Architect to join our Digital Platforms & Architecture Design Division (DP&ADD) within the Digital Transformation Organization.

DP&ADD is responsible for Digital Platforms Architecture Design & Governance function which includes developing, maintaining and updating the enterprise digital reference architecture. DP&ADD also lead the cross organizational Digital Architecture Technical Review teams and establish all digital platforms architecture, design and technology principles and guidelines.

Your primary role will be to develop digital reference architecture, solution architecture, related standards, architecture patterns and partnering with IT and business stakeholders to create business values across the value chain. Creating and keeping up to date blueprint and roadmap for technologies that enable interactions both internal and external digital stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

As the successful candidate you will be required to perform the following:

• Accelerate digitalization by working closely with key stakeholders to develop the digital strategy, roadmaps and partner with implementation teams to ensure the successful delivery of the digital platforms.

• Review and analyze user requirements, recommend and develop solution proposals to meet customer's requirements and ensuring the alignment with enterprise-wide digital architecture strategy.

• Perform the digital architecture governance function by conducting formal reviews of the project artefacts to ensure alignment with the overall digital architecture vision.

• Develop policies, standards, and processes for digital platforms governance and solution architecture.

• Develop, maintain, and govern enterprise digital reference architecture and digital platforms portfolio.

• Develop solutions architecture design documents addressing integration, data, security, and infrastructure requirements.

• Lead major programs, collaboration, and engagements with stakeholders to develop global platforms and initiatives addressing business and technology challenges.

• Conduct technical evaluation of solutions, platforms, and new technologies.

Minimum Requirements

• As the successful candidate you will hold a Bachelor Degree in computer science, information technology, or engineering. A Master Degree is preferred.
• You should have a minimum of 7 years' experience in solutions design & development, digital enterprise architecture, application design & development, platforms, databases, Integration and cloud platforms.
• The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) Open Group Open Certified Architect (Open CA) or any other relevant Architecture certification is desired.
• You must be able to demonstrate a 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) is also required.
• You must also have a deep understanding of the service oriented (microservices), headless and event driven and Integration architecture.
• You should also show ability to lead the development of architecture runways required across projects within a domain and provides day-to-day technical leadership/ guidance to the delivery team.

Working environment

Our high-performing employees are drawn by the challenging and rewarding professional, technical and industrial opportunities we offer, and are remunerated accordingly.

At Aramco, our people work on truly world-scale projects, supported by investment in capital and technology that is second to none. And because, as a global energy company, we are faced with addressing some of the world's biggest technical, logistical and environmental challenges, we invest heavily in talent development.

We have a proud history of educating and training our workforce over many decades. Employees at all levels are encouraged to improve their sector-specific knowledge and competencies through our workforce development programs - one of the largest in the world.