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Director Enterprise Architecture

Baker Hughes
Houston, TX Full Time
POSTED ON 12/30/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 1/28/2026
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Position Overview

We’re a global Fortune 500 building the next generation of digital capabilities – and we are looking for someone who is excited to shape the architectural backbone that will carry us into the future. We move fast, solve real problems, and value the importance of establishing architectural patterns that reflect our business priorities.

We are hiring an exceptional Enterprise Architecture leader to mature and scale our EA capability across our Oilfield Services & Equipment business. This role will define vision, modernize design standards, drive alignment between our business & digital teams, and shape how the organization evaluates, designs, and delivers technology solutions. This role combines strategic architecture vision with hands-on leadership, vendor collaboration, coaching, governance, and cross-functional influence.

Our ideal candidate is a builder, simplifier, and forward-looking architect who can leverage business priorities and strategic differentiation to define patterns that deliver results. You thrive in complexity, communicate clearly, and elevate the teams around you.

Key Responsibilities:


  • Own the EA strategy, operating framework, and roadmap
  • Mature EA function including design principles, governance, processes, repositories, and templates
  • Develop and maintain enterprise-wide capability maps, domain maps, and reference architectures aligned to business goals
  • Act as design partner, not just a gatekeeper – roll up your sleeves to support complex / major programs where architecture clarity is critical
  • Operate design authorities; review and approve architectures for major initiatives
  • Embed patterns and standards into delivery ways of working and coaching mechanisms
  • Translate emerging tech experiments into a pragmatic POV to the organization, enabling enterprise-ready patterns, guardrails, and architectural recommendations
  • Collaborate with IT leadership team to define technology strategy by influencing investment decisions and system modernization priorities
  • Mentor architects, application teams, and business stakeholders


Fuel your passion.


  • Demonstrated experience significantly maturing an EA function with 10 years in enterprise or solution architecture
  • Understanding of core technologies (ERP, CRM, PLM, MDM, Integration/ Middleware, etc. with strong SAP ERP background including S/4HANA experience)
  • Understanding of DevOps practices including branching strategies, CI/CD pipelines, test automation, and release orchestration across an integrated ecosystem of applications
  • Understanding of security and vulnerability management best practices
  • Strong experience in large, global, multi-system environments with complex process and integration landscapes
  • Preferred experience in Fortune 500 industrial / services domains
  • Curiosity for emerging technologies
  • Strong vendor management passion and acumen
  • Excellent communication skills & proven ability to influence stakeholders in complex environments


Work in a way that works for you.

We recognize that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone. In this role, we can confidently offer the following flexible working patterns:


  • Remote working where appropriate subject to the demands and needs of the role.
  • Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit in everything in and work when you are the most productive.


Working with us

Our people are at the heart of what we do at Baker Hughes. We know we are better when all our people are developed, engaged and able to bring their whole authentic selves to work. We invest in the health and well-being of our workforce, train and reward talent and develop leaders at all levels to bring out the best in each other.

The Good Stuff

We believe in rewarding our people with a package that reflects how much we value their input. Join us, and you can expect:


  • Generous annual leave and money to spend on wellbeing activities.
  • Life assurance and income protection
  • Private medical cover
  • A defined contributory savings plan
  • Additional elected benefits.


About Us

At Baker Hughes, we are transforming the future of energy. With operations in over 120 countries, we develop and deploy industry-leading technologies and services to take energy forward. For more than a century, our inventions have revolutionized energy. Today, we bring our expertise to make oil and gas safer, cleaner, and more efficient.

Join us.

Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company that values ideas and new ways of thinking? Come join us and grow with a team of people who will challenge and inspire you!

About Us:

We are an energy technology company that provides solutions to energy and industrial customers worldwide. Built on a century of experience and conducting business in over 120 countries, our innovative technologies and services are taking energy forward – making it safer, cleaner and more efficient for people and the planet.

Join Us:

Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company that values innovation and progress? Join us and become part of a team of people who will challenge and inspire you! Let’s come together and take energy forward.

Baker Hughes Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

You will be eligible to participate in Company-sponsored benefit programs, including health & welfare programs and the Thrift Plan (401k). You will have a choice of coverage options that best suit your needs. Coverage options and contribution amounts are related to your benefit elections, base salary level, and specific requirements of each of these plans.

This position is eligible for our comprehensive and competitive benefits package, which can be found here, and is further eligible for additional forms of compensation such as bonuses subject to the terms of the applicable benefit plans or policies.

About Us:

We are an energy technology company that provides solutions to energy and industrial customers worldwide. Built on a century of experience and conducting business in over 120 countries, our innovative technologies and services are taking energy forward – making it safer, cleaner and more efficient for people and the planet.

Join Us:

Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company that values innovation and progress? Join us and become part of a team of people who will challenge and inspire you! Let’s come together and take energy forward.

Baker Hughes Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

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