Director Forward Deployed Solution Architect - O&G

Overview

Senior-principal individual contributor providing enterprise and portfolio-level solution architecture leadership across AVEVA's most strategic and complex Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) work in Oil & Gas.

What you'll do

• Shape enterprise and portfolio-level functional and solution architecture across AVEVA's most strategic FDE engagements.
• Establish architecture principles, governance, standards, reference architectures, reusable industry patterns, and accelerator models that scale across customers and regions.
• Advise senior customer and internal stakeholders on transformation pathways, operating-model implications, architecture trade-offs, and long-term solution direction.
• Resolve unprecedented, highly ambiguous, or multidimensional architecture challenges spanning business processes, AVEVA products, industrial data, OT/IT systems, cloud, integrations, AI, security, and operations.
• Translate complex customer operating models, workflows, KPIs, data, constraints, and transformation priorities into scalable target architectures and reusable capability models.
• Provide architecture direction across multiple strategic engagements, workstreams, regions, or accounts, raising consistency, quality, and reuse without direct people-management accountability.
• Govern architecture quality, scalability, maintainability, security, interoperability, production readiness, and alignment to measurable customer outcomes.
• Define and govern repeatable validation approaches for complex operational scenarios, including KPI validation, day-in-the-life workflows, edge cases, acceptance criteria, and value realization.
• Shape architecture principles and governance for AI and advanced analytics, ensuring safe, scalable, grounded, and value-led adoption.
• Synthesize recurring customer requirements, architecture constraints, product gaps, and emerging industry needs into evidence-based Product, Portfolio, R&D, and FDE leadership recommendations.
• Convert strategic engagement learning into reusable reference architectures, Industry Accelerators, functional models, governance methods, and productization opportunities.
• Coach and develop senior Solution Architects and technical contributors, strengthening architecture capability and professional standards across the FDE community.
• Influence portfolio direction and policy discussions while escalating final investment, organizational, and enterprise-policy decisions to the appropriate leadership owners.

What you'll need

• Typically 12-16 years of relevant experience, or equivalent demonstrated capability in enterprise architecture, industrial transformation, strategic solution delivery, or related disciplines.
• Senior-principal individual contributor and recognized authority in enterprise-scale industrial solution architecture.
• Deep expertise in industrial operating models, workflows, transformation priorities, and one or more strategic industries.
• Proven ability to resolve unprecedented, highly ambiguous, and multidimensional architecture challenges.
• Enterprise architecture capability across AVEVA products, industrial data, OT/IT systems, cloud, integrations, security, AI, and complementary technologies.
• Strong KPI and value-realization expertise, including baselines, measurable outcomes, value hypotheses, and impact assessment.
• Executive advisory and influencing capability with senior customer, operational, architecture, Product, Portfolio, R&D, and FDE stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to set architecture principles, governance, standards, reference patterns, and reusable accelerator models across customers or regions.
• Broad AVEVA portfolio knowledge and the judgment to identify capability gaps, reuse opportunities, product implications, and strategic trade-offs.
• Define and Design AI Agents, Skills corresponding to domain skills.
• Strong understanding of industrial data and integration ecosystems, including SCADA, historians, MES, EAM/CMMS, ERP, cloud, edge, security, and interoperability.
• Proven ability to coach senior architects and raise architecture quality through influence rather than direct people-management authority.
• Evidence of shaping Product, Portfolio, R&D, or FDE priorities through synthesized customer and industry insight.

Details

• Location: Hyderabad, India.
• Employment type: full-time.
• Hybrid working: most roles are based at a local AVEVA office with an expectation of being on-site 50% of working hours; the working arrangement will be confirmed during the hiring process.