Director Forward Deployed Solution Architect - O&G

AVEVA is creating software trusted by over 90% of leading industrial companies.

Job Title: Director Forward Deployed Solution Engineer - O&G

Location: Hyderabad, India

Employment Type: [full-time]

Job Summary: Director Forward Deployed Solution Architect provides enterprise and portfolio-level architecture leadership as a senior-principal individual contributor across AVEVA’s most strategic and complex FDE work. The role shapes the functional and solution architecture agenda, advises senior customer and internal stakeholders on transformation pathways and long-term solution direction, and establishes architecture principles, governance, standards, reference patterns, and Industry Accelerator models that scale across customers, regions, and the FDE portfolio. As a recognized architecture authority, the role resolves unprecedented or highly ambiguous architecture challenges, raises quality and consistency across strategic engagements, and translates recurring customer needs, operating-model requirements, architecture constraints, product gaps, and emerging industry or technology trends into clear recommendations for Product, Portfolio, R&D, and FDE leadership.

Key Responsibilities:

• Shape enterprise and portfolio-level functional and solution architecture across AVEVA’s most strategic FDE engagements as a senior-principal individual contributor.

• Establish architecture principles, governance, standards, reference architectures, reusable industry patterns, and accelerator models that scale across customers and regions.

• Advise senior customer and internal stakeholders on transformation pathways, operating-model implications, architecture trade-offs, and long-term solution direction.

• Resolve unprecedented, highly ambiguous, or multidimensional architecture challenges spanning business processes, AVEVA products, industrial data, OT/IT systems, cloud, integrations, AI, security, and operations.

• Translate complex customer operating models, workflows, KPIs, data, constraints, and transformation priorities into scalable target architectures and reusable capability models.

• Provide architecture direction across multiple strategic engagements, workstreams, regions, or accounts, raising consistency, quality, and reuse without direct people-management accountability.

• Govern architecture quality, scalability, maintainability, security, interoperability, production readiness, and alignment to measurable customer outcomes.

• Define and govern repeatable validation approaches for complex operational scenarios, including KPI validation, day-in-the-life workflows, edge cases, acceptance criteria, and value realization.

• Shape architecture principles and governance for AI and advanced analytics, ensuring safe, scalable, grounded, and value-led adoption.

• Synthesize recurring customer requirements, architecture constraints, product gaps, and emerging industry needs into evidence-based Product, Portfolio, R&D, and FDE leadership recommendations.

• Convert strategic engagement learning into reusable reference architectures, Industry Accelerators, functional models, governance methods, and productization opportunities.

• Coach and develop senior Solution Architects and technical contributors, strengthening architecture capability and professional standards across the FDE community.

• Influence portfolio direction and policy discussions while escalating final investment, organizational, and enterprise-policy decisions to the appropriate leadership owners.

Essential Skills:

• Typically 12-16 years of relevant experience, or equivalent demonstrated capability in enterprise architecture, industrial transformation, strategic solution delivery, or related disciplines.

• Senior-principal individual contributor and recognized authority in enterprise-scale industrial solution architecture.

• Deep expertise in industrial operating models, workflows, transformation priorities, and one or more strategic industries.

• Proven ability to resolve unprecedented, highly ambiguous, and multidimensional architecture challenges.

• Enterprise architecture capability across AVEVA products, industrial data, OT/IT systems, cloud, integrations, security, AI, and complementary technologies.

• Strong KPI and value-realization expertise, including baselines, measurable outcomes, value hypotheses, and impact assessment.

• Executive advisory and influencing capability with senior customer, operational, architecture, Product, Portfolio, R&D, and FDE stakeholders.

• Demonstrated ability to set architecture principles, governance, standards, reference patterns, and reusable accelerator models across customers or regions.

• Broad AVEVA portfolio knowledge and the judgment to identify capability gaps, reuse opportunities, product implications, and strategic trade-offs.

• Define and Design AI Agents, Skills corresponding to domain skills

• Strong understanding of industrial data and integration ecosystems, including SCADA, historians, MES, EAM/CMMS, ERP, cloud, edge, security, and interoperability.

• Proven ability to coach senior architects and raise architecture quality through influence rather than direct people-management authority.

• Evidence of shaping Product, Portfolio, R&D, or FDE priorities through synthesized customer and industry insight.

What Success Looks Like

• Enterprise and portfolio-level FDE architecture standards, governance, reusable models, and accelerator patterns are adopted across strategic engagements.

• Senior customer and internal stakeholders receive credible architecture guidance on transformation pathways, operating-model implications, trade-offs, and long-term solution direction.

• Highly ambiguous architecture challenges are resolved with clear principles, scalable patterns, and practical governance that improve consistency and quality.

• Recurring customer needs, product gaps, architecture constraints, and emerging industry trends are translated into evidence-based Product, Portfolio, R&D, and FDE leadership recommendations.

• Senior Solution Architects and technical contributors are strengthened through coaching, standards, reference patterns, governance methods, and architecture community leadership.

India Benefits include:  

Gratuity, Medical and accidental insurance, very attractive leave entitlement, emergency leave days, childcare support, maternity, paternity and adoption leaves, education assistance program, home office set up support (for hybrid roles), well-being support

It’s possible we’re hiring for this position in multiple countries, in which case the above benefits apply to the primary location. Specific benefits vary by country, but our packages are similarly comprehensive.

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Hybrid working

We work in a hybrid way at AVEVA. Most roles are based at a local AVEVA office, with an expectation of being on-site 50% of your working hours to support collaboration and connection. Some positions are fully office-based depending on the nature of the work, and certain roles that support specific customers or markets may be remote. The working arrangement for this position will be confirmed during the hiring process.

Hiring process

Interested? Great! Get started by submitting your cover letter and CV through our application portal. AVEVA is committed to recruiting and retaining people with disabilities. Please let us know in advance if you need reasonable support during your application process.

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About AVEVA

AVEVA is a global leader in industrial software with more than 6,500 employees in over 40 countries. Our cutting-edge solutions are used by thousands of enterprises to deliver the essentials of life – such as energy, infrastructure, chemicals, and minerals – safely, efficiently, and more sustainably.

We are committed to embedding sustainability and inclusion into our operations, our culture, and our core business strategy. Learn more about how we are progressing against our ambitious 2030 targets: sustainability-report.aveva.com/

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AVEVA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to being an exemplary employer with an inclusive culture, developing a workplace environment where all our employees are treated with dignity and respect. We value diversity and the expertise that people from different backgrounds bring to our business.  AVEVA provides reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities where appropriate. If you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please notify your recruiter. Determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis.