Senior Solutions Architect

About the role

The Sr. Solutions Architect and Senior Manufacturing Solution Architect positions at LyondellBasell are dedicated to driving innovation and digital transformation within the company. These roles are integral to shaping the future of manufacturing solutions and ensuring that technological advancements align with business goals.

Responsibilities

• Define the technical strategic vision for innovation and digital transformation
• Educate peers and business leaders on innovation platforms and the changes needed for success
• Advise on strategies for digital transformation and digital innovation
• Design, govern, and enable scalable digital manufacturing solutions
• Lead the architecture and design of digital manufacturing solutions supporting production, reliability, quality, energy, and sustainability use cases
• Provide innovation thought leadership, technical governance, and oversight for IT initiatives
• Review RFPs, requirements, emerging business needs, and translate them to business impact
• Champion innovation projects of high business value with organizational leaders
• Ensure ITS solutions are designed for agility, responsiveness, and stability
• Provide guidance and consultation to architect solutions using established and/or emerging technologies
• Develop and maintain technical innovation roadmaps in partnership with Service Excellence
• Meet with key vendors to identify new strategic vendor relationships
• Collaborate with the ITS organization and ensure alignment across groups
• Enforce architectural guiding principles and industry best practices across all technologies
• Identify and address technical or operational risks and areas of improvement relevant to our business
• Assess the business impact of multiple technologies/strategies and create transformation analysis
• Analyze technology industry and market trends, and determine their potential impact on the enterprise
• Write or contribute to articles about emerging technologies and their relevance to our business
• Participate in special projects and perform other duties as assigned

Requirements

• 10+ years’ experience in manufacturing, industrial IT, or digital transformation roles
• 5+ years in solution or enterprise architecture supporting manufacturing environments
• Strong knowledge of Industrial Architectures (ISA-95, Purdue Model), OT Networking, Cybersecurity concepts, Time-series data, streaming and event driven architectures
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• 10-12 years of experience in a technical design/architect level position
• Experience with infrastructure solutions such as Azure, directory services, collaboration, and virtualization
• General knowledge of key global application functionality, for example, SAP
• Deep understanding and working experience of working with data & integration platforms, SaaS, and IaaS
• Experience driving technical conversations with stakeholders at various levels within an organization, including clients, IT technicians/managers, and C-level executives
• Able to demonstrate outstanding verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with all levels of management and staff
• Strong analytical skills