Solutions Architect Automation (Houston)

Solutions Architect

Wood is recruiting for a Solutions Architect within the Systems Integration Team.

The Role

Reporting to the Business Manager of Digital Integration, the Solutions Architect will be accountable for Digital Integration business growth and delivery across Energy and Materials industries within North America. The Solutions Architect will provide principal consulting on OT hardware and software integration for 'Edge to Cloud' solutions to customers, project personnel and project teams while helping to build Wood's Digital Integration service portfolio and business volume in an industrial automation environment.

Applicants must be authorized to work lawfully in the US without sponsorship from Wood, now or in the future.

• Advise clients and promote, develop, and implement integrated digital solutions for industrial control systems in the Energy and Materials industries across North America
• Consult clients on their Digitalization roadmap development and implementation
• Support the growth, development, and delivery performance across projects in Digital Integration solutions and other cross cutting drivers across multiple industry verticals
• Maximize the long-term customer relationship and commercial return by positioning Wood for contract extensions and renewals
• Consult on solutions to strategic, contractual, technical, commercial, operational and personnel related challenges which impact on customer service and performance
• Keep yourself and the team apprised to technical practice, standards, and technology trends in the industrial information industry
• Support Business Development with presentations, estimates, proposal responses
• Build practice knowledge base and resources within the organization
• Represent Wood in the professional community by attending industry forums, publishing white papers and participating in professional organization committees as a subject matter expert maintaining contact with key customers and potential customers
• Accountable for maintaining relationships with strategic / key clients (together with Growth & Development) and execution partners and supporting the development of new relationships in line with Wood's strategy
• Implement Digital Integration solutions including :
• Facilitating client meetings
• Engaging with client stakeholders including Operations and IT
• Managing technical interfaces with 3rd parties e.g., control system vendors
• Preparing execution plans including consideration of operational constraints and technical assurance
• Specifying, selecting, configuring and testing material and equipment
• Supporting project teams in solution delivery
• Commissioning equipment at client facility
• Managing technical and commercial change
• Delivering to budget and schedule targets

Our Clients and Projects

Designing the future. Transforming the world

Wood's consulting business is comprised of 4,000 of the world's foremost deep domain and technical experts, engineering specialists and industrial scientists, focused on advising and implementing solutions that drive real value for our clients at any stage of the asset life cycle.

What We Can Offer