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About Us:
SBM Offshore is a global leader in deepwater ocean infrastructure, delivering floating production solutions across the full asset lifecycle—from design and construction to installation and operation. Supported by a global team of more than 8,000 professionals, the Company operates a long-term, asset-backed business model that delivers high-availability assets and predictable cash flows. SBM Offshore combines engineering expertise, operational reliability, and selective innovation to support safe, efficient, and lower-carbon energy production, while extending its capabilities into new opportunities across the blue economy.
Enterprise Architect (C)
- Location: Rotterdam Office, NL
Purpose
The IT Solutions Architect service is responsible for designing and governing end-to-end solution architectures for IT and Digital initiatives within SBM Offshore. The service ensures that solutions are architecturally sound, secure, supportable, and compliant with SBM Offshore IT standards, principles, and reference architectures.
Operating within the Enterprise Architecture team, the service sits at the intersection of business requirements, project delivery, and enterprise architecture governance, with a strong focus on execution quality, architectural coherence, and reuse across initiatives.
Responsibilities
Solution Architecture & Design
- Define and maintain end-to-end solution architectures aligned with SBM Offshore standards, principles, and reference architectures.
- Translate business and functional requirements into robust, scalable, secure, and supportable solution designs across application, data, integration, infrastructure, and security domains.
- Evaluate SaaS solutions, cloud services, and technology platforms against SBM Offshore architecture, security, integration, data, and compliance requirements.
- Support technology qualification, proof-of-concept activities, and vendor architecture assessments.
- Review vendor solution designs and challenge non-standard approaches where required.
- Actively reuse and adapt existing reference architectures, patterns, and building blocks to ensure consistency and accelerate delivery.
- Produce and maintain solution architecture documentation, including High-Level and Low-Level Designs, throughout the initiative lifecycle.
Architecture Governance & Delivery Support
- Ensure compliance with the Company Digital initiative execution process and architecture governance framework.
- Work closely with Digital Solution Leads, IT Project Managers, and delivery teams across multiple concurrent initiatives.
- Participate in, and where relevant lead architecture and technical design workshops during delivery phases.
- Ensure architectural decisions, risks, and deviations are documented, traceable, and aligned with EA governance.
Technology & Platform Alignment
- Design solutions leveraging Microsoft Azure technologies (IaaS, PaaS, integration, security, and data platform services).
- Assess platforms, services, and solution components against SBM Offshore IT guidelines and reference architectures.
- Provide clear architectural recommendations, including trade-off analysis and design rationale.
- Contribute to RFI/RFP activities by defining and reviewing technical and security architecture requirements.
- Ensure solutions align with enterprise data architecture, integration standards, master data principles, and information management requirements.
- Exposure to industrial and enterprise platforms (AVEVA, IFS, Cognite) is considered a strong asset.
Enterprise Architecture Documentation & Reuse
- Maintain solution architecture artifacts within the Enterprise Architecture toolset (experience with Bizzdesign HOPEX is a strong plus).
- Ensure solution designs are properly linked to business capabilities, applications, data, and technology layers.
- Promote reuse, standardization, and simplification through architectural patterns, standards, and reference architectures.
Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement
- Collaborate effectively with business stakeholders, IT delivery teams, and architecture peers.
- Facilitate alignment across application, data, integration, infrastructure, and security architecture domains.
- Act as a trusted architectural advisor during solution design and delivery, particularly in complex, multi-vendor environments.
Expected Deliverables
The service may produce, as required:
- SaaS Vendors IT Questionnaire Assessments with scoring matrix
- Enterprise Architecture Review Board presentation (EARB)
- High-Level Designs (HLD)
- Technical Architecture Document (TAD)
- Integration Architecture Designs
- Technology Qualification Assessments
- Architecture Decision Records (ADR)
- RFI/RFP Architecture Inputs
- Cartography in Bizzdesign Hopex solution
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, systems engineering, or a related field is required.
- A master’s degree in business administration, computer science, or a related field is preferred but not mandatory.
- Certifications such as ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library), SAFE (Scale Agile Framework), TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Azure Certified Solutions Architect or Certified Enterprise Architect (CEA) are highly desirable.
Experience
- Proven experience as a Solution Architect in complex, multi-project environments.
- Strong experience with distributed and web-based application architectures, as well as data and integration architectures (APIs, event-driven, message-based integration).
- Solid understanding of modern platforms and architectural patterns, including cloud-native architectures, API management, containers, and platform services.
- Demonstrated experience with Microsoft Azure architecture (architecture and design focus, not development).
- Experience designing AI-enabled solutions, including GenAI, AI agents, model integration, security, and compliance considerations.
- Experience with Azure Machine Learning, Microsoft Copilot and Microsoft Foundry is a strong plus.
- Experience with industrial or asset-centric platforms (AVEVA, IFS, Cognite) is a plus.
- Familiarity with Agile and DevOps delivery models.
Skills
- Proficiency in enterprise architecture tools and frameworks
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication
Functional Competencies
- Governance, Risk and Control
- Concept development
- IT Tools and application
- Detailed design
- Systems Engineering
- Security Management
- Digital savvy
- Business Acumen
- Analysis
- Innovation