Azure Solution Architect

Azure Solution Architect

Value Chain: Engineering

Location: Houston, TX

Experience/Requirements:

• Responsible for designing and building solutions that best meet the business needs and are aligned with the IT strategy and roadmaps.
• Experience working with major application development platforms (Azure, SalesForce)
• Strong background in architecture with real-world experience of architecting, designing, and delivering large IT projects.
• Ability to build strong relationships across the business and IT. Able to understand the long-term needs of the solution you are developing, and enable delivery by building a rapport with team members both inside and outside of the organization
• Deep-seated functional knowledge of key technology sets.
• Comfortable rolling up your sleeves, getting involved, and diving into delivery challenges.
• Experience in building and leading a tight-knit delivery team. Experience accomplishing exceptional project outcomes in a respectful and supportive culture.
• A proven grasp of architecture development and design thinking in an agile environment.
• Ability to adapt delivery techniques to drive outstanding project delivery.
• Experience developing others to build architecture capability across an organization
• Exposure to adjacent technology domains such as other platforms, networks, and cyber security.
• Good interpersonal skills including the ability to relate complex topics in simple and accessible language.
• Effective team player, naturally looking beyond your own area/organizational boundaries to consider the bigger picture and/or perspective of others and build trust-based relationships with leaders and employees
• Able to use insight and good judgment to deliver commercially sound, efficient and pragmatic decisions and solutions, and to respond to situations as they arise.
• Good hands-on skills in key technologies, and an ability to rapidly assess new technologies with a commercial mindset.
• Advocate and help ensure our architectures, designs and processes enhance a culture of operational safety and improve our digital security.

Nice to Have:

• Defined and managed reference architectures.
• Oil & Gas experience
• Health, Safety, Environment (HSE) technology, platforms and applications experience
• Higher levels of proficiency in one or more relevant skills or competences deeper and more comprehensive experience, specifically in more complex and bigger projects experience in managing people.
• Relative Certifications or additional education

Required Skills: Azure Architecture experience Basic Qualification: Additional Skills: Background Check: Yes Notes: Must sit onsite in Houston at least one day per week from day 1.