We are a global energy company, providing reliable and affordable energy to help people lead better lives. Join our team at Woodside Global Solutions in Bengaluru where talent, digital expertise, and operational excellence converge to solve complex energy challenges, accelerate change, and reimagine business capabilities to support Woodside's global operations and our role in the energy transition.
Founded in 1954, Woodside established the liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry in Australia 40 years ago and supplies customers around the globe. 70 years on, Woodside continues to be driven by a spirit of innovation and determination.
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At Woodside, we know great results come from our people feeling valued, getting the support they need to reach their full potential and working in a psychologically and physically safe work environment. We believe in nurturing talent and providing opportunities for continuous learning and career advancement. Refer to our corporate website for more information about our different locations and projects: What We Do
About Woodside Global Solutions
Woodside Global Solutions in Bengaluru is being built as a hub of excellence, to drive innovation, digital transformation, and global collaboration.
Working as one Global team, the Woodside Digital team is a trusted partner driving transformation within the organisation. We are bold in our ambitions and resolute in our actions. Through cutting-edge AI, robust cyber security, and advanced data solutions we drive innovation and influence every part of our business.
We are looking for talented professionals who are passionate about technology and eager to make a global impact, helping to shape the future of Woodside together.
PURPOSE
The Senior Enterprise Architect is responsible for shaping the long-term technology vision and strategy of the organisation, ensuring that the overall enterprise architecture evolves in alignment with business objectives, industry trends, and emerging opportunities. This role emphasizes strategic foresight, governance, and standardisation to create a cohesive, sustainable, and adaptable technology landscape across the enterprise. The Enterprise Architect works across business units and technology domains to establish architectural principles, frameworks, and standards that guide solution design and delivery. This includes defining target-state architectures, developing roadmaps for transformation, and ensuring technology investments contribute to enterprise-wide agility, resilience, and innovation. This position requires a balance of strategic leadership and technical breadth, with a focus on guiding the enterprise toward a future-ready architecture that supports scalability, security, sustainability, and continuous business transformation.
REPORTING
To: Architecture & Governance Team Lead
Reports: None
RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES
Enterprise Architecture Strategy and Governance
Support and maintain the organisation’s enterprise architecture vision, principles, and frameworks that guide technology decisions across the enterprise.
Ensure existing governance processes are followed to ensure solution designs align with enterprise standards, business strategy, and long-term technology roadmaps.
Develop and maintain target-state architectures and transition roadmaps for key business domains.
Drive architectural standardisation, ensuring consistency, interoperability, and reusability across the enterprise portfolio.
Business Alignment and Strategic Advisory
Partner with executives, business leaders, and platform owners to translate corporate strategy into enterprise-wide technology capabilities.
Influence strategic planning by identifying how technology can enable new business models, improve competitiveness, and drive transformation.
Serve as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, providing thought leadership on digital trends, enterprise technology strategy, and risk management.
Facilitate business and Digital alignment through enterprise-wide workshops, roadmapping sessions, and stakeholder engagement.
Enterprise Digital Capability Enablement
Review and update enterprise integration patterns, data governance standards, and interoperability models to ensure seamless information flow across the organization.
Oversee the design of cross-domain capabilities (e.g., identity management, data platforms, API ecosystems) that enable enterprise-wide reuse and agility.
Ensure the technology ecosystem supports innovation, operational excellence, and strategic business outcomes across all functions.
Risk, Compliance, and Sustainability
Ensure architectural controls and guardrails are used effectively to mitigate enterprise-level risks, including security, regulatory, and operational risks.
Ensure enterprise architecture incorporates compliance with global and regional regulations (e.g., data privacy, cybersecurity).
Embed sustainability and ESG considerations into enterprise technology strategy (e.g., cloud efficiency, carbon footprint reduction).
Anticipate and manage systemic risks arising from technology concentration, vendor dependency, or critical system failures.
Transformation Leadership
Lead architecture reviews for major programs and portfolios, ensuring long-term alignment and resilience.
Support transformation initiatives by shaping architectural blueprints, guiding change adoption, and enabling scalability.
Champion enterprise agility by promoting modular architectures, cloud-native adoption, and ecosystem partnerships.
Knowledge Sharing and Capability Building
Establish and promote architectural practices, playbooks, and reference models to elevate architectural maturity across the enterprise.
Mentor solution and domain architects, fostering a culture of collaboration, knowledge sharing, and architectural excellence.
Lead internal forums, councils, or architecture boards to align stakeholders and disseminate best practices.
Drive continuous improvement of enterprise architecture processes, methodologies, and tools.
SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience); advanced degree preferred.
10+ years of experience in senior technology roles, with at least 5 years in enterprise, domain, or solution architecture leadership.
Proven track record of defining and governing enterprise-wide architecture frameworks, standards, and reference models.
Extensive experience with enterprise-level systems, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), integration strategies, and digital transformation initiatives.
Broad understanding of business, application, data, technology, and security architecture domains, and how they interconnect at an enterprise scale.
Strong knowledge of enterprise integration patterns, API ecosystems, data governance, and interoperability standards.
Deep understanding of risk, compliance, cybersecurity, and regulatory considerations across complex organizations.
Exceptional strategic and analytical skills, with the ability to connect technology decisions to long-term business outcomes.
Outstanding communication and influence skills, capable of engaging executives, business leaders, and technical stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications
Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field.
Experience defining enterprise architecture roadmaps in large, complex organizations.
Demonstrated success in driving technology modernization, rationalization, and cloud adoption at enterprise scale.
Exposure to multiple industries or domains, with the ability to benchmark and adapt leading practices.
Familiarity with sustainability/ESG-aligned technology strategies (e.g., green IT, sustainable cloud, carbon-aware architectures).
Experience leading or advising on enterprise-wide digital transformation programs.
Key Competencies
Strategic Visioning: Ability to define long-term enterprise architecture direction aligned with business strategy and emerging trends.
Leadership & Influence: Proven ability to lead architecture boards, set standards, and influence senior executives and delivery teams.
Business Acumen: Strong understanding of business models, value chains, and how technology enables competitive advantage.
Governance & Standards: Skilled at establishing guardrails, frameworks, and architectural policies that balance innovation with control.
Innovation & Foresight: Ability to evaluate disruptive technologies and propose adoption strategies that create future-ready capabilities.
Collaboration & Facilitation: Adept at uniting diverse stakeholders, driving consensus, and managing enterprise-wide alignment.
Resilience & Adaptability: Comfortable leading through ambiguity, organizational change, and shifting business priorities.
Communication: Ability to distill complex architectural strategies into clear, compelling narratives for executive and non-technical audiences.
KEY INTERACTIONS
Internal:
Digital Team, including AI and Data Science Leads
Digital Architecture Team
External:
Industry peers
Suppliers
Contractor and vendors
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About Woodside Energy
We are a global energy company, providing reliable and affordable energy to help people lead better lives. Join our team at Woodside Global Solutions in Bengaluru where talent, digital expertise, and operational excellence converge to solve complex energy challenges, accelerate change, and reimagine business capabilities to support Woodside's global operations and our role in the energy transition.
Founded in 1954, Woodside established the liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry in Australia 40 years ago and supplies customers around the globe. 70 years on, Woodside continues to be driven by a spirit of innovation and determination.
At Woodside, we know great results come from our people feeling valued, getting the support they need to reach their full potential and working in a psychologically and physically safe work environment. We believe in nurturing talent and providing opportunities for continuous learning and career advancement. Refer to our corporate website for more information about our different locations and projects: What We Do ...
About Woodside Global Solutions
Woodside Global Solutions in Bengaluru is being built as a hub of excellence, to drive innovation, digital transformation, and global collaboration.
Working as one Global team, the Woodside Digital team is a trusted partner driving transformation within the organisation. We are bold in our ambitions and resolute in our actions. Through cutting-edge AI, robust cyber security, and advanced data solutions we drive innovation and influence every part of our business.
We are looking for talented professionals who are passionate about technology and eager to make a global impact, helping to shape the future of Woodside together.
PURPOSE
The Senior Enterprise Architect is responsible for shaping the long-term technology vision and strategy of the organisation, ensuring that the overall enterprise architecture evolves in alignment with business objectives, industry trends, and emerging opportunities. This role emphasizes strategic foresight, governance, and standardisation to create a cohesive, sustainable, and adaptable technology landscape across the enterprise. The Enterprise Architect works across business units and technology domains to establish architectural principles, frameworks, and standards that guide solution design and delivery. This includes defining target-state architectures, developing roadmaps for transformation, and ensuring technology investments contribute to enterprise-wide agility, resilience, and innovation. This position requires a balance of strategic leadership and technical breadth, with a focus on guiding the enterprise toward a future-ready architecture that supports scalability, security, sustainability, and continuous business transformation.
REPORTING
To: Architecture & Governance Team Lead
Reports: None
RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES
Enterprise Architecture Strategy and Governance
Support and maintain the organisation’s enterprise architecture vision, principles, and frameworks that guide technology decisions across the enterprise.
Ensure existing governance processes are followed to ensure solution designs align with enterprise standards, business strategy, and long-term technology roadmaps.
Develop and maintain target-state architectures and transition roadmaps for key business domains.
Drive architectural standardisation, ensuring consistency, interoperability, and reusability across the enterprise portfolio.
Business Alignment and Strategic Advisory
Partner with executives, business leaders, and platform owners to translate corporate strategy into enterprise-wide technology capabilities.
Influence strategic planning by identifying how technology can enable new business models, improve competitiveness, and drive transformation.
Serve as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, providing thought leadership on digital trends, enterprise technology strategy, and risk management.
Facilitate business and Digital alignment through enterprise-wide workshops, roadmapping sessions, and stakeholder engagement.
Enterprise Digital Capability Enablement
Review and update enterprise integration patterns, data governance standards, and interoperability models to ensure seamless information flow across the organization.
Oversee the design of cross-domain capabilities (e.g., identity management, data platforms, API ecosystems) that enable enterprise-wide reuse and agility.
Ensure the technology ecosystem supports innovation, operational excellence, and strategic business outcomes across all functions.
Risk, Compliance, and Sustainability
Ensure architectural controls and guardrails are used effectively to mitigate enterprise-level risks, including security, regulatory, and operational risks.
Ensure enterprise architecture incorporates compliance with global and regional regulations (e.g., data privacy, cybersecurity).
Embed sustainability and ESG considerations into enterprise technology strategy (e.g., cloud efficiency, carbon footprint reduction).
Anticipate and manage systemic risks arising from technology concentration, vendor dependency, or critical system failures.
Transformation Leadership
Lead architecture reviews for major programs and portfolios, ensuring long-term alignment and resilience.
Support transformation initiatives by shaping architectural blueprints, guiding change adoption, and enabling scalability.
Champion enterprise agility by promoting modular architectures, cloud-native adoption, and ecosystem partnerships.
Knowledge Sharing and Capability Building
Establish and promote architectural practices, playbooks, and reference models to elevate architectural maturity across the enterprise.
Mentor solution and domain architects, fostering a culture of collaboration, knowledge sharing, and architectural excellence.
Lead internal forums, councils, or architecture boards to align stakeholders and disseminate best practices.
Drive continuous improvement of enterprise architecture processes, methodologies, and tools.
SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience); advanced degree preferred.
10+ years of experience in senior technology roles, with at least 5 years in enterprise, domain, or solution architecture leadership.
Proven track record of defining and governing enterprise-wide architecture frameworks, standards, and reference models.
Extensive experience with enterprise-level systems, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), integration strategies, and digital transformation initiatives.
Broad understanding of business, application, data, technology, and security architecture domains, and how they interconnect at an enterprise scale.
Strong knowledge of enterprise integration patterns, API ecosystems, data governance, and interoperability standards.
Deep understanding of risk, compliance, cybersecurity, and regulatory considerations across complex organizations.
Exceptional strategic and analytical skills, with the ability to connect technology decisions to long-term business outcomes.
Outstanding communication and influence skills, capable of engaging executives, business leaders, and technical stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications
Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field.
POSITION DESCRIPTION<br />Position Title: Senior Enterprise Architect Job Level: JL10<br />Team: AI & Analytics Position Function: Digital<br />Matrix Entity<br />Supported:Digital Financial & DelegatedAuthoritiesAs per MoAPURPOSE<br />The Senior Enterprise Architect is responsible for shaping the long-term technology vision and strategy of the<br />organisation, ensuring that the overall enterprise architecture evolves in alignment with business objectives,<br />industry trends, and emerging opportunities. This role emphasizes strategic foresight, governance, and<br />standardisation to create a cohesive, sustainable, and adaptable technology landscape across the enterprise.<br />The Enterprise Architect works across business units and technology domains to establish architectural<br />principles, frameworks, and standards that guide solution design and delivery. This includes defining target-state<br />architectures, developing roadmaps for transformation, and ensuring technology investments contribute to<br />enterprise-wide agility, resilience, and innovation. This position requires a balance of strategic leadership and<br />technical breadth, with a focus on guiding the enterprise toward a future-ready architecture that supports<br />scalability, security, sustainability, and continuous business transformation.<br />REPORTING<br />To: Architecture & Governance Team Lead<br />Reports: None<br />RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES<br />Enterprise Architecture Strategy and Governance<br /> Support and maintain the organisation’s enterprise architecture vision, principles, and frameworks that guide<br />technology decisions across the enterprise.<br /> Ensure existing governance processes are followed to ensure solution designs align with enterprise<br />standards, business strategy, and long-term technology roadmaps.<br /> Develop and maintain target-state architectures and transition roadmaps for key business domains.<br /> Drive architectural standardisation, ensuring consistency, interoperability, and reusability across the<br />enterprise portfolio.<br />Business Alignment and Strategic Advisory<br /> Partner with executives, business leaders, and platform owners to translate corporate strategy into<br />enterprise-wide technology capabilities.<br /> Influence strategic planning by identifying how technology can enable new business models, improve<br />competitiveness, and drive transformation.<br /> Serve as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, providing thought leadership on digital trends, enterprise<br />technology strategy, and risk management.<br /> Facilitate business and Digital alignment through enterprise-wide workshops, roadmapping sessions, and<br />stakeholder engagement.<br />Enterprise Digital Capability Enablement<br /> Review and update enterprise integration patterns, data governance standards, and interoperability models<br />to ensure seamless information flow across the organization.<br /> Oversee the design of cross-domain capabilities (e.g., identity management, data platforms, API<br />ecosystems) that enable enterprise-wide reuse and agility.<br /> Ensure the technology ecosystem supports innovation, operational excellence, and strategic business<br />outcomes across all functions.<br />Risk, Compliance, and Sustainability<br /> Ensure architectural controls and guardrails are used effectively to mitigate enterprise-level risks, including<br />security, regulatory, and operational risks.<br /> Ensure enterprise architecture incorporates compliance with global and regional regulations (e.g., data<br />privacy, cybersecurity).<br /> Embed sustainability and ESG considerations into enterprise technology strategy (e.g., cloud efficiency,DRIMS# Page 2 of 2<br />carbon footprint reduction).<br /> Anticipate and manage systemic risks arising from technology concentration, vendor dependency, or critical<br />system failures.<br />Transformation Leadership<br /> Lead architecture reviews for major programs and portfolios, ensuring long-term alignment and resilience.<br /> Support transformation initiatives by shaping architectural blueprints, guiding change adoption, and enabling<br />scalability.<br /> Champion enterprise agility by promoting modular architectures, cloud-native adoption, and ecosystem<br />partnerships.<br />Knowledge Sharing and Capability Building<br /> Establish and promote architectural practices, playbooks, and reference models to elevate architectural<br />maturity across the enterprise.<br /> Mentor solution and domain architects, fostering a culture of collaboration, knowledge sharing, and<br />architectural excellence.<br /> Lead internal forums, councils, or architecture boards to align stakeholders and disseminate best practices.<br /> Drive continuous improvement of enterprise architecture processes, methodologies, and tools.SKILLS & EXPERIENCE<br />Required Qualifications<br /> Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field (or<br />equivalent experience); advanced degree preferred.<br /> 10+ years of experience in senior technology roles, with at least 5 years in enterprise, domain, or solution<br />architecture leadership.<br /> Proven track record of defining and governing enterprise-wide architecture frameworks, standards, and<br />reference models.<br /> Extensive experience with enterprise-level systems, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), integration<br />strategies, and digital transformation initiatives.<br /> Broad understanding of business, application, data, technology, and security architecture domains, and how<br />they interconnect at an enterprise scale.<br /> Strong knowledge of enterprise integration patterns, API ecosystems, data governance, and interoperability<br />standards.<br /> Deep understanding of risk, compliance, cybersecurity, and regulatory considerations across complex<br />organizations.<br /> Exceptional strategic and analytical skills, with the ability to connect technology decisions to long-term<br />business outcomes.<br /> Outstanding communication and influence skills, capable of engaging executives, business leaders, and<br />technical stakeholders.<br />Preferred Qualifications<br /> Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field.<br /> Industry-recognized enterprise architecture certifications (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman, ITIL, COBIT).<br /> Experience defining enterprise architecture roadmaps in large, complex organizations.<br /> Demonstrated success in driving technology modernization, rationalization, and cloud adoption at enterprise<br />scale.<br /> Exposure to multiple industries or domains, with the ability to benchmark and adapt leading practices.<br /> Familiarity with sustainability/ESG-aligned technology strategies (e.g., green IT, sustainable cloud, carbon-<br />aware architectures).<br /> Experience leading or advising on enterprise-wide digital transformation programs.<br />Key Competencies<br /> Strategic Visioning: Ability to define long-term enterprise architecture direction aligned with business strategy<br />and emerging trends.<br /> Leadership & Influence: Proven ability to lead architecture boards, set standards, and influence senior<br />executives and delivery teams.<br /> Business Acumen: Strong understanding of business models, value chains, and how technology enables<br />competitive advantage.<br /> Governance & Standards: Skilled at establishing guardrails, frameworks, and architectural policies that<br />balance innovation with control.DRIMS# Page 3 of 2<br /> Innovation & Foresight: Ability to evaluate disruptive technologies and propose adoption strategies that<br />create future-ready capabilities.<br /> Collaboration & Facilitation: Adept at uniting diverse stakeholders, driving consensus, and managing<br />enterprise-wide alignment.<br /> Resilience & Adaptability: Comfortable leading through ambiguity, organizational change, and shifting<br />business priorities.<br /> Communication: Ability to distill complex architectural strategies into clear, compelling narratives for<br />executive and non-technical audiences.<br />KEY INTERACTIONS<br />Internal:<br /> Digital Team, including AI and Data Science<br />Leads <br /> Digital Architecture TeamExternal:<br /> Industry peers<br /> Suppliers <br /> Contractor and vendors<h3>experience</h3>15
