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Enterprise Architect

Job DescriptionVitol is seeking an Enterprise Architect to join its technology department, reporting directly to the Chief Technology Officer (CTO). This is a newly created role with accountability for defining, structuring, and governing Vitol's target architecture, technology strategy, and data architecture across our worldwide trading and physical operations. The newly appointed Enterprise Architect will work closely with other technology teams to provide architectural counsel on platform and vendor choices, build versus buy, modernization sequencing, integration and data design, resilience and risk. Enterprise Architecture enables the company to make better-informed decisions by providing advice at the speed the decision requires. The Enterprise Architect will have a unique opportunity to create a brand-new function of Enterprise Architecture at Vitol. This will cover aspects such as developing the function governance, architecture awareness within the technology department and supporting and promoting architecture principles defined by the CTO while supporting major key transformation programs such as our new data platform, our cloud journey, our AI transformation and application modernization. Key areas of responsibility and oversight for the Enterprise Architect include: • Target State & Technology Blueprint: Ownership of Vitol's enterprise technology blueprints, defining target state architectures for key business systems, platforms, and high-throughput integration layers leveraging the BDAT model.  • Architecture Governance: Establishing a lightweight, agile Architecture Advisory Framework that reviews high-risk technical decisions, core integration points, and major vendor selections without introducing corporate friction or slowing down business delivery.  • Technology & Integration Architecture: Define technology and integration based on Vitol’s main architecture principles, provide guidance and awareness within the technology teams. Identify technical debt and provide guidance on how to replace it.  • Build vs. Buy & Technical Rationalization: Defining clear decision criteria for custom software builds versus standard platform adoption, while systematically eliminating legacy technical debt, shadow IT, and redundant platform investments across business units.  • Application & Technology Inventory: Own, support and govern the application and technology landscape inventory platform, mapping each of them to owners and business capabilities.  • Cross-Functional Partnership: Working closely with product engineering leads, trading desks, the Executive Technology team, CyberOps, and Cloud & Infrastructure teams.  • Team Leadership: Promote the newly created function within the company, hire, develop and retain future Enterprise Architects.  • Demand Management: Own the technology demand management process.  Qualifications• Education: Undergraduate or postgraduate degree in a technical discipline.  • Leadership Experience: 7+ years of experience in enterprise architecture or technical leadership, with at least 5 years in a senior executive role.  • Architectural Governance: Proven track record of establishing lean, pragmatic architecture governance models.  • Data & Integration Topology: Hands-on expertise designing modern, event-driven architectures.  • Cloud & Modern Stack Mastery: Deep understanding of cloud-native application patterns.  • AI & Agentic: Demonstrated experience building AI and Agentic capabilities.  • Security by Design: Ensuring security and resiliency remain at the top of every architecture decision. Additional InformationSoft Skills that will help you stand out: • Pragmatic & Outcome-Oriented  • Commercial Mindset  • Decisive & Action-Oriented  • Executive Presence & Influence  • Highly Collaborative  • Operationally Excellent What We Offer: • Strategic Impact: reporting directly to the CTO, a clear mandate to establish and lead the Enterprise Architecture function from the ground up.  • Scale and Complexity  • Broad Technical Scope  • Flat, Meritocratic Culture  • Global Footprint  Company DescriptionVitol is an energy and commodities company with revenues of $331 billion in 2024; its primary business is the trading and distribution of energy products globally – it trades over seven million barrels per day of crude oil and products and, at any time, has 250 ships transporting its cargoes.Vitol’s clients include national oil companies, multinationals, leading industrial companies and utilities. Founded in Rotterdam in 1966, today Vitol serves clients from some 40 offices worldwide and is invested in energy assets globally including 24mM3 of storage, 850kbpd of refining capacity, and 10,000 service stations. To date, we have committed over $2.5 billion of capital to renewable projects and are identifying and developing low-carbon opportunities around the world.

Solutions Architect, Enterprise, Europe-Central Solutions Architect

AWS Global Sales (AGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services.Solutions Architects at Amazon Web Services (AWS) build technical relationships with customers of all sizes and operate as their trusted advisor. In this specific role, you will work with AWS customers and industry domain experts to create the architectures for solutions to large Enterprise challenges. You will not only design and build these solutions, but continue to refine and scale them by working closely with AWS Professional Services, AWS Partners, and customers. This role requires hands-on experience in application integration design, solid knowledge of business software application design stemming from domain-driven design, and micro-services and component-based architectures. This knowledge needs to be paired with industry domain expertise in areas such as applied AI and the development and deployment of industry solutions. Candidates for this role need experience with applications, use cases, user experiences, and challenges in large enterprise gained by working in architect or developer roles within the domain. Candidates should have insights on how cloud-based software solutions are built, including but not limited to the handling of sensitive data, process observability, and audit readiness.You will also participate in the creation and sharing of best practices, technical content and new reference architectures (e.g. white papers, code samples, blog posts) and evangelize and educate about AWS technology and industry trends (e.g. through workshops, user groups, meetups, public speaking, online videos or conferences).This role will include up to 30% travel.Key job responsibilitiesIn this role, you will love what you do, and instinctively know how to make work fun. You will be dynamic and creative, and willing to take on any challenge and make a big impact.Enjoy working with large, global customers as an active contributor to a diverse team. You will have a passion for educating, training, designing, and building cloud solutions for a diverse and challenging set of Enterprise customers.Have a strong understanding of large scale computing solutions. The ideal candidate will have past experience working as an architect or software development engineer.You will enjoy keeping your existing technical skills honed and developing new ones, so you can make strong contributions to deep architecture discussions. You will regularly take part in deep-dive education and design exercises to create world-class solutions built on AWS.About the teamDiverse ExperiencesAWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.Why AWS?Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.Inclusive Team CultureAWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do.Mentorship & Career GrowthWe’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. 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