Job Summary
Responsible for defining, governing, and continuously evolving the organisation’s enterprise architecture across Information Technology (IT), Operational Technology (OT), Cybersecurity, Data, and Digital Office domains within the Oil & Gas environment. Ensure that all technology capabilities are fully aligned with corporate strategy, operational excellence objectives, HSE priorities, cybersecurity resilience requirements, and long-term digital transformation goals.
Establish an integrated architecture vision that connects business capabilities, industrial control systems, enterprise applications, data platforms, infrastructure, and digital collaboration environments into a secure, scalable, and future-ready ecosystem. This includes enabling IT/OT convergence while maintaining operational integrity, safety compliance, and cyber resilience in mission-critical environments.
The Enterprise Architect Ensures That Technology Investments
- Deliver measurable business value
- Improve operational efficiency and reliability
- Enhance cybersecurity posture
- Reduce technical debt and system redundancy
- Support regulatory compliance and risk management
- Enable data-driven decision-making across field and corporate operations
In addition, the role champions secure digital transformation by embedding cybersecurity-by-design principles, promoting zero-trust architecture, strengthening industrial control system protections, and ensuring business continuity in high-risk operational environments.
Leads the Digital Office strategy to modernise the workplace through cloud adoption, collaboration platforms, automation, AI-enabled productivity tools, and secure remote access solutions — improving workforce productivity and digital experience across corporate offices and remote field locations.
Ultimately accountable for building a resilient, innovative, and integrated technology landscape that enables sustainable growth, operational excellence, and competitive advantage.
Key Accountabilities
- Develop and maintain the enterprise architecture (EA) framework, principles, standards, policies and operating models.
- Define integrated IT/OT/cyber security /Digital architecture principles.
- Establish long-term IT road maps with alignment with business, cybersecurity, and Digital Office.
- Align IT strategy and architecture with business goals and corporate strategy.
- Define and manage enterprise technology roadmaps (short, medium, and long-term).
- Establish governance processes to ensure compliance with architectural standards.
- Translate business capabilities and strategy into technology architecture requirements.
- Partner with business stakeholders to understand transformation priorities.
- Ensure IT initiatives support enterprise-wide integration and optimisation.
- Identify opportunities for digital innovation and automation.
- Define target-state architectures across:
- Business Architecture
- Application Architecture
- Data & Information Architecture
- Infrastructure & Cloud Architecture
- OT/ICS Architecture (SCADA, DCS, PLC)
- Cybersecurity Architecture
- Digital Workplace Architecture
- Integration Architecture
- Ensure secure integration between enterprise IT and operational technologies.
- Drive interoperability across production, refining, and distribution systems.
- Oversee system integration and interoperability standards.
- Ensure scalability, performance, and reliability of enterprise platforms.
- Establish enterprise data governance architecture.
- Enable enterprise data platforms and analytics.
- Support AI/ML, digital twins, and advanced analytics.
- Promote automation and RPA initiatives.
- Drive adoption of emerging digital technologies.
- Lead cloud adoption strategy.
- Evaluate and recommend emerging technologies.
- Rationalise application and technology portfolio to reduce redundancy.
- Lead legacy system modernisation initiatives.
- Assess vendor solutions and ensure architectural fit.
- Ensure architectural designs comply with cybersecurity and regulatory requirements.
- Identify technical risks and develop mitigation strategies.
- Collaborate with Information Security and Risk teams.
- Support disaster recovery and business continuity planning.
- Provide architectural leadership across IT and business units.
- Mentor solution architects and technical teams.
- Present architecture strategies and investment cases to executive leadership.
- Act as a trusted advisor for strategic technology decisions.
- Promote best practices in architecture and solution design.
- Drive cloud adoption, automation, DevOps, and modernisation strategies.
- Continuously evaluate architectural maturity and optimise frameworks.
- Participate in the on-the-job training of trainees and newly hired personnel within the Group to ensure that they develop the necessary skills to independently carry out assigned activities. Train End-Users in the application of newly developed systems.
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in IT, Computer Engineering, or relevant discipline.
- 7+ years direct and relevant experience.