Lead Solution Architect Engineering Applications - F/M

Overview

Be part of the solution at Technip Energies and embark on a one-of-a-kind journey. You will be helping to develop cutting-edge solutions to solve real-world energy problems.

About us

Technip Energies is a global technology and engineering powerhouse. With leadership positions in LNG, hydrogen, ethylene, sustainable chemistry, and CO2 management, we contribute to critical markets such as energy, energy derivatives, decarbonization, and circularity. Our complementary business segments, Technology, Products and Services (TPS) and Project Delivery, turn innovation into scalable and industrial reality. Our 17,000+ employees across 34 countries are committed to bridging prosperity with sustainability for a world designed to last.

About the role

Lead Solution Architect Engineering Applications reporting directly to Enterprise Architect Director to join our Digital for Operational Excellence team based in Nanterre, Paris, France.

Overview: The Lead Solution Architect Engineering Applications provides dedicated digital support for the Engineering functions within TEN, ensuring alignment between enterprise architecture principles, business architecture and product delivery. The role acts as a bridge between business needs and digital platforms, defining solution architecture and driving coherence, innovation, and operational efficiency within the product lifecycle. The role involves participating in the product framing and design phases, supporting the execution phase and delivering documentation during the full product lifecycle, including the Product Architecture Reference Document, architecture reviews, and promoting actions to reduce TEN technical debt.

Key Responsibilities

• Business and Technology Alignment

• Engage with Business Owners and Product Leads to understand product business requirements and priorities, ensuring alignment between business goals and Digiteam architecture principles.
• Translate business needs into a solution design that fits within TEN's enterprise architecture framework (Business Architecture).
• Engage Business Teams in the Business Architecture Processes.
• Act as a consultant to guide business transformation initiatives and ensure architecture decisions enable business agility and innovation.
• Participate in Make or Buy Decisions when required.
• Assist Business in identification of information dependencies when defining Product Business Architecture, especially with other domains.
• Describe Products Business Capabilities and Business Services using Enterprise Architecture standards.
• Participate in Application rationalization in the domain you are working on.
• Create and Maintain Products Conceptual Data Model aligned with Enterprise Data Model.
• Be accountable to keep a Product’s system dependencies up to date.
• Ensure consistency between Enterprise data catalog and Functional Requirements.
• Ensure Data Continuity of the products delivered in the context of the Digital Acceleration Plan Program.
• Manage a team of 4, ensuring day-to-day management, coaching and development of technical competencies, as well as evaluation.

• Solution Architecture Design and Delivery

• Define and maintain the current and future state solution architecture of the assigned product.
• Engage with Business Stakeholders including Engineering Product Owners, Engineering Tools Administrators and Engineering Subject Matter Experts.
• Discuss Solutions with Product Stakeholders on key business capabilities like “Calculation and Simulation”, “Modeling Automation”, “Document Management”, “Material Management”.
• Design Product solution architecture with standards-aligned technical applications.
• Use Solution Building Blocks and standard technical designs to accelerate solution definitions.
• Collaborate with data architecture teams to define data exchange patterns that fit business requirements and follow data sharing protocols.
• Support agile delivery by guiding development teams in implementing scalable, secure, and sustainable solutions.
• Ensure alignment of technical architecture with the overall solution architecture.
• Maintain product description in the CMDB and ensure traceability of application changes.
• Foster collaboration between business, developers, data teams, and platform teams to maintain delivery flow.

• Solution Architect Standards activities

• Coordinate with solution architects working on the same domain.
• Report and forecast activities and manage workload.
• Communicate with Platforms teams to follow upcoming services.
• Participate in the solution architecture community and initiate peer forums to share guidance.
• Use the tooling provided to Solution Architects.
• Ensure application performance by identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks across domain applications.
• Propose refactoring scenarios for obsolete applications.
• Avoid data duplication and costly data storage.
• Ensure all applications portfolios are up to date with last cybersecurity requirements.

• Innovation

• Engage with platform leaders to propose new technologies when existing technologies portfolio is limited.
• Assist Business Product Owner on Proof Of Value or prototypes when requested.
• Propose new technologies based on value delivered.
• Promote AI where it makes sense.
• Identify and mitigate common architecture decision-making pitfalls that affect time to market and quality.

About you

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 15+ years of IT experience and 3+ years in Architecture.
• At least 5 years of experience in team management.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with stakeholders at all levels.
• Ability to maintain a mid-term/long-term mindset with pragmatism.
• Experience in enterprise business process management.
• Experience with engineering applications such as Aveva, Hysys, etc.
• Architecture certification (TOGAF is a plus).
• Proven experience in Business Service, building blocks and solution design.
• Experience participating in Make or Buy analyses.
• Proven experience in Cloud, especially Azure.
• Knowledge of industry trends and best practices in architecture.
• Knowledge of emerging data and AI technologies and trends with a commitment to staying up to date.
• Good facilitation skills and ability to coordinate diverse stakeholders across business and digital functions.
• Understanding of backlog management, user story refinement, and value-driven delivery.
• Experience collaborating with Product Owners to drive product increments aligned with architecture standards.

Engineering Domain

• Knowledge of engineering work processes, technologies and tools within process, simulation, calculation, design, modeling, document and data exchange tools is a nice-to-have.

Your career with us

Working at Technip Energies is an inspiring journey with groundbreaking projects and dynamic collaborations. You will be surrounded by diverse and talented individuals in a safe, caring environment that supports ongoing growth. You will have access to learning opportunities at TEN University, including The Future Ready Program and Graduate Program, with support from your manager through development reviews.

What’s next?

Technip Energies prioritizes internal applications and provides timely feedback to internal applicants. Our Recruiting Team screens and matches skills, experience, and potential team fit against the role requirements. You can check your application progress in PeopleConnect Recruiting.

Together, let’s be part of the solution!