Director Forward Deployed Solution Architect - O&G at AVEVA in Hyderabad

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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 mult