Senior IT Architect / Strategic Advisor

This is a remote position.

Responsibilities

· Assess the current application and architecture landscape.

· Provide independent recommendations on future-state architecture and modernization options.

· Support decision-making related to technology platforms, vendors, and long-term architecture direction.

· Help define the problems to be solved and what the new architecture needs to achieve.

· Facilitate architecture discussions with both business and technical stakeholders.

· Help define architectural principles, priorities, and transformation roadmap.

· Identify opportunities to improve data utilization and prepare the environment for future AI-driven initiatives.

· Bring lessons learned from similar industrial transformation programs.



Requirements

· Senior experience as an Enterprise Architect, IT Architect, or similar senior advisory role.

· Experience as a strategic advisor or sparring partner to senior decision-makers, including evaluating technology and vendor options neutrally and challenging proposals.

· Proven track record in large-scale industrial, energy, oil & gas, or process industry environments, with references from similar projects.

· Experience leading or advising on complex enterprise application landscapes, including replacing legacy systems and consolidating them.

· Strong understanding of industrial data ecosystems and IT architecture.

Preferred Experience

· Experience from oil & gas, refining, energy, or other industrial sectors.

· Experience in architecture strategy, target operating models, and technology roadmapping.

· Previous work as an independent advisor in architecture transformation programs.

Language

· Professional working proficiency in English.

Required skills

• Industrial IT Architecture
  
• data ecosystems
  
• Enterprise Architecture
  
• Strategic Advisor
  
• Technology Platform Evaluation
  
• Vendor Ecosystem Analysis
  
• Application Landscape Assessment
  

Preferred skills - Oil & Gas Industry

Languages - English (Proficient)