Solution Architect

Engineering Services are seeking a Solution Architect with hands-on expertise in da engineering and solution architecture. This position bridges the gap between high-level business requirements and technical execution, defining the architecture of scalable da pipelines, robust storage solutions, and high-performance analytics environments. The responsibilities include prototyping complex integrions and ensuring th da infrastructure is robust, secure, resilient, and optimized for scale-up. As a practitioner in this role, the Solution Architect will be responsible for transling business needs into technical solutions, leveraging your expertise to drive the design and implemention of da-driven systems., Architectural Design: Lead the design of end-to-end solution and da architectures, including ingestion, processing, storage, and visualizion layers.

Infrastructure Stregy: Define cloud-nive or hybrid infrastructure stregies th support high-volume da processing and real-time analytics.

Hands-on Development: Develop Proof of Concepts (PoCs) and core framework components for da pipelines (e.g. ETL) to ensure architectural feasibility.

Dabase Governance: Evalue and select approprie da stores (Relional, NoSQL, Graph, Vector) based on specific use-case requirements like lency, throughput, and consistency.

Performance Optimizion: Audit existing da systems to identify bottlenecks and implement stregies for cost-optimizion and query performance tuning.

Technical Leadership: Provide technical leadership in ensuring best practices in various areas including CI/CD and documention.

Solution Architecture: Develop and maintain a deep understanding of the corpore's technology landscape, including applicions, da flows, and infrastructure, to identify opportunities for improvement and optimizion.

Legacy Modernizion: Experience migring on-premise infrastructure to cloud-nive architectures.

Containerizion: Experience with Docker and Kubernetes for deploying da services.

Cloud Infrastructure: Expert-level experience with least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and their nive da services.

Da Processing: Strong proficiency in bch and stream processing.

Programming: Advanced coding skills in Python, or Java, along with expert-level SQL.

Dabase Systems: Extensive experience managing and querying various systems: Relional: PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, NoSQL/NewSQL: MongoDB, Cassandra, Warehousing/Lakehouses: Snowflake, Dabricks, BigQuery.

Enterprise Architecture: Knowledge of enterprise architecture principles, including business architecture, informion architecture, and technology architecture.

Minimum Requirements

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Informion Systems, or a reled field.

Minimum of 15 years in IT, with least 4 years in a Solution Architect or Lead Da Engineer role.

Proven track record of delivering least two large-scale enterprise da plform migrions or greenfield builds.

Preferred qualificions and experience: The certificions are TOGAF, ITIL, or similar. AI/ML Integrion experience architecting Feure Stores and MLOps pipelines to support machine learning workflows. Governance Tools familiarity with da caloging and governance tools.

Aramco energizes the world economy. Aramco occupies a special position in the global energy industry. We are one of the world's largest producers of hydrocarbon energy and chemicals, with among the lowest Upstream carbon intensities 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 generions' 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 th rely on the vital and reliable energy th we supply. We are one of the most profitable companies in the world, as well as amongst the top five global companies by market capitalizion., At Aramco, our people work on truly world-scale projects, supported by investment in capital and technology th 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 educing and training our workforce over many decades. Employees all levels are encouraged to improve their sector-specific knowledge and competencies through our workforce development programs - one of the largest in the world.