Director, Architecture, Engineering & AI

Stolt-Nielsen Limited

Director leading architecture and engineering strategy for Stolt-Nielsen, a global logistics and aquaculture company. Overseeing technology innovations and AI strategies across multiple divisions.

Posted 6/3/2026full-timeRotterdam • 🇳🇱 NetherlandsLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud Platform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead Stolt-Nielsen’s global architecture and engineering function, ensuring scalable, secure and future-ready technology platforms across the business.
Working closely with the CIO, translate business strategy into technology and AI roadmaps.
Drive enterprise architecture and governance, and lead the development of the company’s AI strategy and capabilities.
Oversee engineering standards, platform strategies and digital transformation initiatives.
Lead a global multidisciplinary team and provide strategic insights on technology investments and portfolio performance.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Masters in technical, engineering or business discipline.
Ten + years of overall business and technology experience with progressive growth in scope and accountability, including senior leadership of multi-disciplinary architecture and engineering teams.
Experienced in working for a global and listed company.
Track record leading enterprise architecture across business, information, application, integration and infrastructure domains in a complex, multi-division or multi-geography organization.
Experience developing and implementing enterprise AI strategies or leading AI digital transformation programs at scale.
Hands-on exposure to modern cloud platforms (Azure / AWS / GCP), enterprise integration, identity, data platforms and security architecture; sufficient depth to set direction and challenge vendor positioning.
Strategic and conceptual thinker, able to translate business strategy into a coherent multi-year technology roadmap while staying close enough to technology to challenge implementation.
Working knowledge of AI and machine learning concepts, large language models and AI platform architectures, sufficient to evaluate solutions and guide implementation.
Excellent leadership, interpersonal and communication skills, confident communicating architecture, AI strategy and value to non-technical executives and board-level stakeholders.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive executive-level compensation package aligned with the seniority and global scope of the Director Architecture, Engineering & AI role.
Opportunity to shape the technology, platform and AI strategy across all Stolt-Nielsen divisions, influencing key decisions at CIO, executive and board level.
High-impact leadership position with visibility across a complex, multi-division global organization operating in logistics, distribution and aquaculture.
A collaborative environment working closely with divisional Digital Leads, senior business stakeholders and multi-disciplinary architecture, engineering and AI teams across geographies.
Significant scope to drive innovation through enterprise AI strategy, lighthouse experiments, and modern platform engineering practices using leading cloud and integration technologies.
The chance to build and mature a global Architecture & Engineering function, including methods, standards and EAM tooling, leaving a lasting structural and cultural legacy.

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Hard Skills & Tools

enterprise architectureAI strategydigital transformationcloud platformsenterprise integrationdata platformssecurity architectureAI conceptsmachine learninglarge language models

Soft Skills

leadershipinterpersonal skillscommunication skillsstrategic thinkingconceptual thinking

Certifications

Masters in technical disciplineMasters in engineering disciplineMasters in business discipline