(Global Oil Gas) Digital Plant Solutions Architect - ISA 95
MatchaTalent
- Perth, WA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- 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.
- 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).
- Bring an entrepreneurial and product mindset to provide technical leadership in the development of technical designs, functional specifications, and relevant documentation as per This Company's standards.
- Deep understanding of microservices, headless, and event-driven and Integration architecture.