ConocoPhillips

Solution Architect - HR & Corp Staffs

ConocoPhillips • $100K — $140K *
Bartlesville, OK 74006In-Person
Energy & Utilities
5 - 7 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of IT experience
  • 3+ years in enterprise or solution architecture roles
  • Proficiency across multiple technical domains (data, integration, infrastructure, security, applications)
  • Proven track record in leading technology initiatives
  • Experience in cloud architecture (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Responsibilities

  • Establish architectural standards and best practices for HR and Corporate Staff applications
  • Drive innovation initiatives like AI and IoT
  • Design architectures leveraging AI advancements
  • Collaborate for data governance and analytics to drive business insights
  • Modernize legacy systems and promote microservices and API strategies

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and mental health support
  • Competitive performance bonuses and retirement savings plans
  • Generous paid time off and parental leave
  • Access to training and internal career mobility tools
  • Inclusive culture with peer-nominated recognition programs
Full Job Description
Job Summary
The Solution Architect for HR and Corporate Staff Applications establish and enforces architectural standards and best practices across the portfolio for HR and Corporate Staff Functions.

The architect is responsible for designing comprehensive technology architectures that enable digital capabilities in support of the company's digital strategy. This includes developing and maintaining reference architectures, guiding the creation of architectural artifacts, executing risk assessments and applying enterprise standards, design patterns, decision frameworks, principles, and governance to ensure consistency and quality across solutions.

Position Overview

Your responsibilities may include:
  • Architecture CoE: participate and accountable for establishing and enforcing architectural standards and best practices across the HR and Corporate Staff portfolio.This ensures technology solutions drive value for COP technical functions and business units.
  • Innovation Management: Facilitating and implementing innovation initiatives (e.g., Agentic AI, IoT, edge computing, quantum, robotics) corresponds to the architect's responsibility to guide digital solutions evaluation and design, as well as to promote modernization and adoption of emerging technologies within their portfolio.
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI): Supporting architecture improvements in line with AI advancements is aligned with the solution architect's duty to lead the design of architectures that leverage AI (analytics, machine learning, Generative, Agents) and ensure knowledge contextualization and governance.
  • Data Governance/Management/Analytics: Collaborating to drive business insights and value through data aligns with the architect's accountability to partner with enterprise data teams, understand data concepts (fabric/mesh, data lakes, warehouses), and ensure data-driven architecture decisions.
  • Critical Thinking: Addressing challenges and complex scenarios demonstrates the architect's responsibility for applying big-picture thinking and sound decision-making to guide technology strategies and resolve architectural issues.


Technical Responsibilities:
  • Develop and maintain architectural blueprints and design principles for the HR and Corporate Staff portfolios, ensuring consistency and excellence across all assigned applications.
  • Lead the evaluation, design, and secure by design implementation of digital solutions within the HR and Corporate Staff portfolio, performing risk assessments, selecting optimal technologies, and aligning all designs with enterprise-wide standards.
  • Set and enforce architectural standards to guarantee interoperability, scalability, high performance, and strong disaster recovery across all solutions.
  • Foster seamless functional and operational integration within and across enterprise technology environments and the assigned portfolio, enabling efficient business operations.
  • Architect solutions for hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures (AWS, Azure, GCP), including strategies for cloud migration, cloud-native development, and cost optimization.
  • Work with enterprise data architecture and AI teams to leverage concepts like data fabric, mesh, lakes, and warehouses. Drive business value with analytics, machine learning, generative AI, and intelligent agents through effective knowledge contextualization and governance.
  • Apply cybersecurity architectural principles-including zero trust, identity and access management (IAM), and regulatory compliance (e.g., NIST, ISO 27001)-to safeguard solutions and align with industry standards.
  • Guide the modernization of legacy systems, rationalize applications, and drive the adoption of modern architectures such as micro-services, APIs, and event-driven designs.
  • Champion DevSecOps, continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), infrastructure-as-code, and automation to enhance productivity and secure solution deployment.
  • Engage actively on architectural governance boards, ensuring all solution designs are aligned with enterprise standards and strategic objectives.
  • Demonstrate expertise in service-oriented architecture, object-oriented analysis and design, and legacy n-tier client/server systems to support both current and future business needs.
  • Present solution concepts through compelling narratives that engage stakeholders, drive desired actions, and support team collaboration. Provide leadership in both formal and informal communications to strengthen stakeholder relationships and promote architectural excellence.


Success Profile

To thrive in this role, you'll demonstrate the following leadership competencies:
  • Takes Accountability: Takes ownership of actions and follows through on commitments by courageously dealing with important problems, holding others accountable, and standing up for what is right.
  • Drives Performance: Delivers results through realistic planning to accomplish goals.
  • Makes Decisions: Generates effective solutions based on available information and makes timely decisions that are safe and ethical.
  • Critical Thinking: Address challenges, manage intricate scenarios, and apply overarching perspectives to inform daily decision-making.
  • Collaboration: Strong collaboration skills to work effectively with Business Product Owners, IT Capability Leaders, Business Architects, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams.
  • Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills for preparing and presenting project documentation.
  • Problem-Solving: Strong problem-solving skills to address business challenges and ensure solutions align with architectural goals
  • Governance and Compliance: Knowledge of legal, internal, and contractually prescribed IT requirements, including security policies and vendor management.
  • Analytical Skills: Ability to evaluate systems, identify cost-effective solutions, and assess design methodologies.


Basic Qualifications:
  • Legally authorized to work in the United States.
  • 5 or more years of experience in IT.
  • 3 or more years of experience in enterprise and/or solution architecture roles.
  • 3 or more years leading cross-functional technology initiatives.
  • Willing and able (with or without reasonable accommodations) to travel 10% on a yearly basis.


Technical Skills:
  • 3 or more years of experience working with technology across at least three or more of the following domains: data, integration, infrastructure, security, and application domains.
  • 1 or more years of experience in designing and implementing technical and digital solutions, producing high-level, low-level, data flow, physical, logical, and reference architectures.
  • Possess advanced level of proficiency in one technical discipline or across five or more distinct technical domains.
  • Demonstrates advanced level of proficiency in solution architecture practices, including technology evaluation, solution design, implementation, and integration strategies.
  • Advanced level of proficiency in architecting and deploying cloud environments across AWS, Azure, and GCP platforms.


Preferred Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
  • Demonstrated experience in the energy sector or other asset-intensive industries, applying architectural expertise to address industry-specific challenges.
  • Holds advanced certifications such as TOGAF, AWS/Azure/GCP Architect, CISSP, CISM, or PMP, validating proficiency in enterprise architecture and cloud platforms.
  • Proven track record supporting mergers and acquisitions, digital transformation initiatives, and operational excellence programs within complex organizations.
  • Hands-on architecture experience implementing and integrating SAP, Workday, Passport, Genetec, and other major enterprise platforms to drive business value and efficiency.
  • Direct experience in upstream oil and gas exploration and production, with familiarity in managing and optimizing specialized application portfolios that support these operations (e.g., production management systems, reservoir modeling tools).
  • Successfully delivered technical solutions using at least three common programming languages, such as .NET, Java, Perl, Python, JavaScript, R, or SQL, enabling robust and scalable architecture design.
  • Extensive background in Agile methodologies, particularly SAFE Agile, and leading organizational transitions from waterfall to Agile frameworks for improved project delivery.
  • Experience addressing the architectural complexities inherent in global enterprises with diverse, geographically distributed teams and operations.
  • Advanced knowledge of system development methodologies, business and IT concepts, and related processes, supporting strategic solution design and delivery.
  • Intermediate proficiency with tools and techniques for modeling solution architectures and operating within established enterprise architecture frameworks.
  • Intermediate understanding of IT service management practices, including ITIL and ITSM, to ensure reliable and efficient IT operations.
  • Strong grasp of "zero trust" network architecture principles and secure computing environments, supporting robust enterprise security strategies.
  • Intermediate level of experience with DevSecOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and Jenkins.
  • Brings over 3 years of specialized experience architecting generative AI systems, including retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) architectures, vector databases, and AI model serving frameworks.
  • Demonstrates intermediate proficiency in application modernization, microservices architecture, API development, and system integration as part of solution delivery.


Apply By:
Jun 21, 2026

Sponsorship:
ConocoPhillips' sponsorship for employment authorization in the U.S. is NOT available for this position.

Benefits Overview

ConocoPhillips offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits package designed to support your well-being and career growth:
  • Taking Care of Your Health & Wellness: Medical, dental, vision, mental health support, and wellness programs.
  • Supporting and Building Financial Security: Competitive base pay, annual performance bonuses, and retirement savings plans.
  • Promoting Work-Life Balance: Paid time off, paid parental leave, and family support resources.
  • Offering Career Development: Access to training, mentoring, and internal career mobility tools.
  • Guiding Recognition & Inclusion: Peer-nominated awards, inclusive culture, and employee resource groups.

About ConocoPhillips

ConocoPhillips is an oil and gas exploration and production company in the energy industry that promotes safety, health, and environmental safety. The company's technical capability, asset quality and scale, and financial strength are unmatched among independent upstream companies and uniquely position them to compete anywhere. ConocoPhillips is committed to the efficient and effective exploration and production of oil and natural gas. Producing oil and natural gas and getting them to market takes ingenuity, technology, and investment. Its innovative, collaborative efforts yield products that improve quality of life globally while producing economic benefits with far-reaching influence.

ConocoPhillips Careers

Join the dynamic world of ConocoPhillips, where innovation meets expertise in the energy sector. As a global leader in hydrocarbon exploration, we offer unparalleled job opportunities that propel your career to new heights. Work You’ll Do At ConocoPhillips, we are committed to sustainable energy solutions and are looking for talented individuals to join our team. Engage in groundbreaking projects that redefine industry standards and foster growth in clean energy. Lead with Innovation Step into a role at ConocoPhillips and lead with innovation. Our company is at the forefront of technological advancements in the energy sector. With a focus on sustainable practices, we offer a platform where skills and leadership converge to create impactful solutions. Join Our Diverse Team ConocoPhillips prides itself on a culture of diversity and inclusion. Here, every team member’s contribution is valued, and diversity training ensures that all voices are heard, fostering a truly collaborative environment. Explore Career Opportunities Whether you’re a seasoned professional or a recent graduate, ConocoPhillips has a range of positions to suit your skills and ambitions. From engineering to project management, our job opportunities span across numerous disciplines. Internship Programs Kickstart your career with a ConocoPhillips internship. Our programs offer hands-on experience in real-world projects that prepare you for future employment. Interns gain invaluable insights and professional guidance, setting the foundation for a robust career in the energy sector. Employee Benefits Choose a career with ConocoPhillips and enjoy a comprehensive benefits package. We support our employees’ well-being with health benefits, retirement plans, and continuous learning opportunities through professional development and training. Networking and Professional Growth Advance your career through networking opportunities within ConocoPhillips. Connect with industry leaders and peers who are eager to share knowledge and insights. Our supportive environment encourages career growth and leadership development. Hiring Process Embark on your ConocoPhillips journey with a straightforward hiring process. Submit your resume, prepare for your interview, and show us why you’re a perfect fit for our team. We’re looking for innovative minds ready to tackle the challenges of tomorrow. Stay Connected Join Our Team Discover the exciting career paths available at ConocoPhillips. Search open positions that match your skills and interests. We are constantly on the lookout for curious, driven, and creative team players. Keep Up to Date Stay informed with the latest industry news and career tips from ConocoPhillips. Our careers blog provides insider perspectives and practical advice to help you navigate your professional journey. Job Alert Emails Personalize your subscription to receive job alerts and the latest news tailored to your preferences. Explore the rewarding opportunities that await at ConocoPhillips and be part of a company that’s leading the way in energy innovation. At ConocoPhillips, we’re not just offering a job; we’re offering a pathway to a fulfilling career in an industry that’s shaping the future. Join us and be part of a legacy of leadership, innovation, and growth.
Learn more about ConocoPhillips
Size
9,400 employees
Market Cap
$142.3 billion
Industry
Energy & Utilities
Net Income
-$2.7 billion
Founded
2012
5 Year Trend
+13.7%
Revenue
$18.7 billion
NASDAQ
COP
* Ladders Estimates

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