Data Solution Architect

About the role

Chevron's Engineering and Innovation Excellence Center (ENGINE) in Bengaluru brings together the expertise of the Chevron global network with local talent to optimise solutions for current and future energy challenges. The Solution Architect owns the end-to-end technical and architectural design of complex enterprise solutions, ensuring alignment with business objectives, enterprise architecture standards and platform capabilities. The role bridges business strategy and technology execution by defining scalable, secure and cost-effective architectures, providing architectural governance and guiding delivery teams through design and implementation.

Key responsibilities

• Design large-scale data platforms and lakehouse-style architectures
• Build end-to-end data pipelines and define scalable, secure, cost-effective solution architectures
• Provide architectural governance and guide delivery teams through design and implementation
• Work with multiple architects to align on the right architecture design and drive adoption of enterprise architecture standards
• Propose alternative solutions when standard approaches do not fit, while staying aligned to enterprise principles
• Focus on performance, scalability, reliability and cost optimisation

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field (or equivalent experience)
• 12-18 years of experience in solution architecture, system design and enterprise-scale delivery
• Experience driving DevOps, CI/CD and automated deployment at the architectural level
• Proven ability to influence architectural decisions across teams and stakeholders, with strong communication and documentation skills

Required skills

• Azure Databricks, Apache Spark (PySpark), Delta Lake, Unity Catalog and scaled distributed data processing
• Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Data Factory, Synapse Analytics and modern data orchestration tools
• Microservices, APIs, Kafka and integration frameworks
• DevOps and CI/CD tooling such as Azure Pipelines, GitHub Actions and Terraform
• Data governance, security, metadata management, lineage and cloud cost optimisation
• Nice to have: Oil & Gas, subsurface, facilities or industrial data platforms, OSDU-aligned architectures, and cloud or architecture certifications

The standard work week is Monday to Friday, with hours 8:00am to 5:00pm or 1:30pm to 10:30pm. Chevron does not sponsor employment visas or consider candidates on time-limited visa status. To apply, use the Apply button on the posting.