Director, Solution Architecture

In this role you will: Pre-Sales Strategy & Governance • Define pre-sales technical positioning, demo standards, and reference implementation strategy • Support executive sponsor conversations • Ensure sales motions align with delivery and support capacity • Establishes architectural standards and reusable system design patterns across customers • Align solution architecture strategy with product and platform evolution Discovery, Qualification & Delivery Governance • Define qualification and delivery standards • Defines discovery frameworks that ensure consistent capture of system level requirements globally • Set minimum technical readiness criteria • Own escalation path for all deals Solution Design & Architecture • Define architectural principles for scalability performance and reuse • Ensure alignment between customer solutions and long-term platform architecture Emissions Architecture Standards • Define and govern standards for emissions calculation logic, methodology interpretation, and auditability across the portfolio • Approve or reject architectural exceptions Knowledge Engineering Standards and Governance • Define and govern standards and processes for knowledge engineering across the portfolio ensuring integration with the CXL knowledge graph technology • Ensure long-term maintainability of CXL knowledge graph technology Data Integration Strategies and Standards • Set portfolio-wide standards for asset modeling, data integration patterns, and scalability • Ensure long-term maintainability of customer configurations Output & Certification Governance • Govern how certificates, compliance reports, and operational dashboards are designed and issued • Ensure outputs remain defensible, verifiable, and regulator ready. Implementation Support • Establish governance to maintain architectural consistency across implementations • Ensure adherence to system design standards globally Sales to Delivery to Support Alignment • Establish and enforce standards for post-sales handoff • Align Sales, Solution Architect/Engineering, Delivery TPM, and Support expectations • Continuously refine rules based on post go-live outcomes Experience: • Balances revenue growth with delivery risk, regulatory exposure, and long-term platform integrity • Builds and leads the Solution Architecture organization • Sets standards, goals, accountability and develops future leaders • Portfolio level understanding of emissions architecture, knowledge graph design, data integration strategy and platform scalability • Exceptional written, presentation, and verbal communication skills • An ability to explain technical subjects to non-technical people • Outstanding organizational skills • Experience with enterprise software implementations involving complex data integration and migration efforts Preferred: • Bachelor s degree in engineering (process/process safety, facilities/operations, mechanical, environmental, or similar related field). • Significant experience in oil & gas operating facilities (upstream, midstream, or downstream) with the ability to thoroughly understand operational challenges and communicate effectively with customer personnel across functions and levels. • Project Management and/or Agile certification is a plus. • Solid understanding of Piping & Instrumentation Diagrams (P&IDs), Process Flow Diagrams (PFDs), Cause & Effects Charts (C&E), Electrical One-Lines, Facility Layout Drawings, and similar engineered facility drawings. • Prior experience in software, practical understanding of modern application architectures, and/or experience with RESTful API integration would be a plus but not required. • Experience writing SQL queries to extract, analyze, or manipulate data from relational databases; comfort navigating large or complex datasets is preferred. • Experience with the Atlassian suite of management tools preferred. • Currently residing in Abu Dhabi. Why you ll like it here: • Context Labs is collaborative at its core. You ll work within your team and across the organization allowing for continuous learning and discovery. • We set goals that matter and provide value in all that we do, from building meaningful products to positively impacting carbon reduction and climate change. • Context Labs mission is to transform complex data into a trusted data fabric that delivers context-driven insights that enable human networks to spot patterns, correlate trends - and reveal the truth hidden inside the world s most complicated, persistent problems. About this position: In this role you will provide expertise to support the sale and deployment of Context Labs products by bridging technical, product, and customer needs, with a focus on oil & gas facilities and GHG emissions expertise. The individual collaborates with sales, product, and customers to deliver demos, assess digital readiness, and solve complex data integration challenges. It is a high-visibility role in a growing company, requiring hands-on technical and client-facing support throughout the pre- and post-sales process as well as mentoring junior staff members. The position reports to the Chief Customer Officer and works closely with senior leadership.