In pursuing our ambition to digitalize and become more data driven, we are continuously developing and improving our tools and work processes. To achieve this ambition, we now seek to strengthen our team of experienced Solution Architects to handle challenges at hand.

Solution Architects lead and support activities that transform business needs into solutions to realize business outcomes. Solution Architects collaborate with relevant business stakeholders to provide a solution and architecture design that will be handed over and realized by implementation projects. Our architects adhere to architectural guidelines, build on the strengths of the application portfolio and are always in pursuit of reducing complexity.

Job responsibilities:

• Holistic overall responsibility: the end-to-end responsibility for an architecture and design to ensure the Company gets the right solution.
• Proactively and holistically lead activities that guide the specification and solutioning of use cases.
• Evaluate and translate business, information and technical requirements into architectural blueprints for a solution, portfolio of solutions or products.
• Create and document architectural designs to guide and contextualize solution development across initiatives aligned with the customer, portfolio, and transformation objectives.
• Support and ensure that development and implementation activities are delivered according to solution design.
• Provide consulting support and facilitate sound architecture decisions to ensure alignment with the overall enterprise architecture principles.
• Liaises with relevant system owners, subject matter experts, product teams and service providers.

Your experience and qualifications:

• Bachelor / Master degree
• Min. 5 years of experience with stakeholder management, communication and deliveries involving people, processes, and technology.
• Min. 5 years of relevant work experience with business transformation projects ensuring continuous alignment between deliverables and business objectives.
• Min. 5 years of experience in a solution architect role with responsibility for solution design to ensure customer gets the right solution.
• Min. 10 years of hands-on experience in designing, building and delivering data intensive solutions targeting critical business operations.
• Experience within AI, with an understanding what AI can and cannot be used for, and how it can be applied in one’s own tasks.
• Experience from the oil and gas industry is required, experience within production and operations is an advantage.
• Experience with various solution blueprints, architectural patterns and principles, data modelling, data and integration platforms is an advantage.
• Fluent in English and Norwegian, both verbal and written.
• Strong analytical skills.
• You are someone who inspires confidence and demonstrates transparency, who builds trust and relationships easily, and can reinforce commitment and communicates effectively.
• You are comfortable working in a dynamic and at times unpredictable environment.
• You enjoy working cross-functionally and empowering others along the way.
• You can express complex concepts, ideas, opinions, and conclusions clearly.
• You have an eye for identifying risks and proactively work to mitigate these, removing roadblocks and helping the team navigate complexities.
• You challenge work processes and standards, supporting simplification and standardization.