Senior Solutions Architect
LyondellBasell
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Houston • Texas • United States
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About the role
- Lead the architecture and design of digital manufacturing solutions supporting production, reliability, quality, energy, and sustainability use cases
- Define end‑to‑end solution architectures spanning OT systems ,Plant data historians ,Manufacturing Applications and cloud platforms
- Serve as a technical authority for OT/IT integration patterns, including real‑time data ingestion, edge architectures, and secure connectivity
- Provide innovation thought leadership, technical governance, and oversite for ITS initiatives
- Review RFPs, requirements, emerging business needs, business trends, industry and market trends, and translate them to business impact
- Champion innovation projects of high business value with organizational leaders
- Ensure ITS solutions are designed for agility, responsiveness, stability
- Provide guidance and consultation to architect solutions using established and/or emerging technologies
- Develop and maintain technical innovation roadmaps in partnership with Service Excellence
- Regularly meet with key vendors and identify new strategic vendor relationships
- Collaborate with the ITS organization and ensure alignment across groups
- Enforce architectural guiding principles and industry best practices across all technologies
- Apply sound financial management, commercial awareness, and investment judgment skills
- Identify and address technical or operational risks and areas of improvements relevant to our business
- Develop architectural views (business, technical, solution), reference and future-state models, and roadmaps
- Assess the business impact of multiple technologies/strategies and create transformation analysis
- Analyze technology industry and market trends, and determine their potential impact on the enterprise
- Write or contribute to articles about emerging technologies and their relevance to our business
- Participate in special projects and performs other duties as assigned
Requirements
- 10+ years’ experience in manufacturing, industrial IT, or digital transformation roles
- 5+ years in solution or enterprise architecture supporting manufacturing environments
- Strong knowledge of Industrial Architectures( ISA-95,Purdue Model), OT Networking and Cybersecurity concepts, Time-series data, streaming and event driven architectures
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
- 10-12 years of experience in a technical design/architect level position
- Experience with infrastructure solutions such as Azure, directory services, collaboration, and virtualization
- General knowledge of key global application functionality, for example, SAP
- Deep understanding and working experience of working with data & integration platforms, SaaS, and IaaS
- Experience driving technical conversations with stakeholders at various levels within an organization, including clients, IT technicians/managers and C-level executives
- Ability to demonstrate outstanding verbal and written communication skills
- Experience with Data Center design and the ability to build HA and DR solutions to match business objectives
- Broad experience and understanding of IT disciplines, standards, and best practices
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Paid time off
- Remote work options
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
solution architecturedigital manufacturing solutionsOT/IT integrationreal-time data ingestionedge architecturestime-series datastreaming architecturesevent-driven architecturesData Center designHA and DR solutions
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunication skillsinnovation thought leadershipfinancial managementcommercial awarenessrisk assessmentcollaborationconsultationtechnical governancestakeholder engagement
Certifications
Bachelor's degreeISA-95 certification