Description
Job Title: Solution Architect- Digital Production
Job Location: Sunbury, UK
Job Type: Contract
Solution Architect is expected to play a key role within Digital Production & Business Services.
The Key responsibilities will be as follows:
- You will be a key point of contact for the Intelligent Operations Digital Twin Architecture team, selecting new technologies, defining architecture principles and standards, designing solutions for bp's production and manufacturing assets, digitizing the work processes.
- You will be encouraging best practice & standards, reusability to design solutions using Azure Digital Twin, Azure IoT, Azure data services and various other services from Azure platform.
- As a member of our Architecture Design Review Board, your responsibility will be to provide governance, architectural guidance, architecture reviews and key design decisions across digital twin opportunities identified by the Intelligent Operations team
- Act as a key point of escalation to product teams, mediating and resolving conflicts
- As an architectural stakeholder and trusted advisor to the design authority, you support other architects and engineers in engaging with stakeholders to expedite the identification and progression of design decisions
- Lead the definition, delivery and design review approval of assigned Key Design Decisions
- Collaborate with architecture peers to define and gain approval for each phase of the end-to-end solution architecture
- Work closely with the delivery lead to ensure architecture deliverables align to programme milestones
- Provide updates to the delivery lead and wider programme team on architecture progress/blockers
The Essential domain expertise/skill set are as follows:
- Strong Experience in deliveries of architecting large and complex digital solutions with multiple systems, data integration and visualization components
- Experience in business analysis, vendor management and Azure DevOps
- Experience in Azure cloud services - IoT, Digital Twin, Azure Functions, App Service
- Experience in authoring and reviewing architecture key design decisions, architecture description
- Experience in managing architecture risks and maintaining a mitigation plan
- Understanding of energy production and manufacturing value chains- Desirable
- Understanding of plant maintenance, work management and engineering processes- Desirable
- Understanding of big data platforms, data warehouses and data integration methodologies-Desirable