Digital Solutions Architect

Aramco energizes the world economy.

Aramco occupies a unique position in the global energy industry. We are the world's largest producer of hydrocarbons (oil and gas), with the lowest upstream carbon intensity 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.

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Digital Solution Architect to join our team in Global Manufacturing Excellence (GME), Saudi Aramco’s Center of Excellence for the global downstream portfolio. 

As a Digital Solutions Architect your key responsibilities include leading the Global Manufacturing Excellence Digital Transformation programs ideating, introducing, deploying and sustaining novel and innovative digital transformation solutions across Global Manufacturing Portfolio. A critical success factor is digital technology value realization, utilization and benefits realization. 

You are expected to be able to perform the following:

    Lead the end to end implementation of digital solutions and technologies across Saudi Aramco downstream portfolio including operations analytics, process automation, artificial intelligence, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and other innovative manufacturing solutions.
    Work collaboratively with downstream teams to understand their specific needs and challenges, ensuring that digital solutions are tailored to address their operational pain points.
    Accelerate digitalization working closely with key stakeholders to develop the digital strategy and roadmaps.
    Define and develop a comprehensive digital transformation roadmap for downstream portfolio focusing on top priority value adding technologies and use cases.
    Conduct thorough feasibility analysis including techno economic and cost-benefit studies to evaluate the potential impact of digital solutions on performance and present outcomes. Present the summary and recommendations to executive management.
    Conduct technical evaluation of solutions, platforms and new technologies. 
    Partner with implementation teams to ensure the successful delivery of the digital platforms.
    Prepare reports and presentations to communicate the progress and benefits of digital initiatives to peers, relevant stakeholders and senior management. 
    Develop and implement change management strategies to ensure successful adoption of digital solutions by end-users.
    Collaborate with technology providers in developing and conducting tailored training content and programs to support the implementation as well as correct utilization of digital technologies by end-users.
    Stay abreast of global and regional Oil and Gas industry trends, market conditions, and regulatory changes that may impact digital implementations.
    Ensure compliance with corporate governance and standards, and evaluating solution implementations.  Identify introduce necessary changes to standards and governance. 
    Provide technical leadership to solution design, development and support teams.
    Analyze user requirements, recommend and develop solution proposals to meet customer’s requirements ensuring the alignment with enterprise wide digital strategy
    Perform digital and solution architecture reviews to ensure alignment with the overall corporate strategy.

As the successful candidate you will hold a Bachelors degree in Engineering or related field (Chemical, Industrial, Electrical, and Mechanical Engineering). A Masters’ degree is preferred.

You will have a minimum of ten to fifteen years of experience as a solution architect in refining or gas plants with strong knowledge in designing, implementing, commissioning and supporting digital solutions for refinery and downstream manufacturing facilities.

    You will have good to expert understanding of process plants in the energy and hydrocarbon industry including Refineries, Petrochemical, Terminal, bulk plant in addition to pipelines, GOSPs and Gas Plants. 
    You will have experience in developing business case and benefit/cost analysis for digital and 4IR solutions.
    You will demonstrate a solid understanding of the latest digital technologies including Artificial Intelligence, blockchain, IoT, data science and analytics, cloud computing, Integration, database technologies (relational, timeseries) etc.
    You will have excellent communications and interpersonal, collaboration, leadership and presentation skills.
    You have the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders at all levels 
    You will be able to demonstrate excellent understanding of manufacturing digital solutions enabling the key process areas including production, reliability, environmental, safety and sustainability
    You will have strong project management skills with a proven track record of successfully leading and delivering complex digital implementation projects in the O&G business
    You will have experience in change management, including developing and implementing change management strategies and driving user adoption of digital solutions
    You will have excellent understanding of Enterprise Architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, Zachman and manufacturing and automation standards such as ISA Series. 

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.