Senior Principal Digital Technologist

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McDermott seeks a Senior Principal Digital Technologist for full time onsite work in Dubai. The role blends strategic leadership with hands on architecture to solve complex digital challenges, own the architecture roadmap, drive cloud native transformations, cybersecurity, and cross functional delivery with solution architects, engineers, and business partners, while shaping a three to five year digital vision. Essential qualifications include a bachelor’s in CS or IT with 9+ years in digital or IT, preferably in oil and gas, strong experience with enterprise data, IoT, analytics, and public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google) plus data lakes or Hadoop, and proven leadership and communication skills. To apply, tailor your CV to spotlight three to five measurable transformations you led, show business impact, highlight cloud and data tech, and include a concise cover letter aligned with McDermott’s energy transition goals; emphasize willingness to relocate to Dubai and your ability to influence both technical and non technical audiences.

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Job Overview:

The Senior Principal Digital Technologist is tasked with solving unique and complex problems that broadly impact the business. They must proactively identify and solve the most complex problems that impact the management and direction of the business. The Senior Principal Digital Technologist is considered a specialist in the field of Digital Technology, and they offer a broad base of knowledge about the Information Technology function. The Senior Principal Digital Technologist impacts the direction and resource allocation of programs and projects in their discipline and works within general functional policies and industry guidelines. The Senior Principal Digital Technologist role requires conceptual and innovative thinking to develop creative solutions to Digital Technology challenges.  

Key Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Ability to understand business requirements and give digital solutions
• Ability to work with business leadership and team to deliver timely solutions
• Solve complex business problems through digital strategy and analytical models to enable productivity, profitability, and growth
• Work closely with solution architects and software engineers to translate solutions into viable products and services
• Create a compelling digital vision, communicate, and influence business stakeholders, dealers, team members, suppliers, business units, and industry experts toward that shared vision
• Own the architecture roadmap and new digital technology adoption
• Proactively evaluate, design, and promote new products, processes, technologies, and solutions
• Deliver systems, and architectures and plan for evolving legacy n-tier applications to cloud-native architectures
• Responsible for driving cyber-security-related policies and methods in the team
• Responsible for relationships with business and delivery partners
• Look ahead and strategize for the next 3-5 years of digital transformation
• Hands-on architect who is passionate about technology and solving important design challenges- this means the individual should be technology agnostic, know how to code, and be willing to consider technologies and solutions that are relevant to the business and its goals
• Mentor and develop others 

Essential Qualifications and Education:

• Minimum bachelor’s degree required related to Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Information Technology/Computer Technology/Management Information System; prefer relevant strategic Digital Technology or equivalent certifications
• 9+ years of relevant experience preferably in digital technologies & IT services; work experience can be waived by 2 to 3 years with education higher than the minimum degree requirement met or 1+ years of experience leading a global team in a similar role
• Demonstrated experience in providing business solutions using digital technology preferably in oil and gas/engineering industries
• Experience in enterprise-scaled solutions that deliver real-time and historical data efficiently  
• Experience in IoT, business intelligence, and analytics deployments
• Experience with one of the following big data technologies: Amazon Web Services, Azure Cloud, Google Cloud, Data Lake, or Hadoop
• Experience in enterprise solutions delivering availability, reliability, and scalability
• Experienced as a Technical Application Architect (architecture modeling, building block design, applications, role design, and systems integration) and has demonstrated experience in leading requirement discussions and setting vision and roadmaps
• Strong understanding of public cloud technologies and best practices for implementing two or more from the following: massive real-time event and message processing, data lakes, Big Data transformations and analytics, complex e-commerce applications, IoT edge and cloud data processing, SQL, and NoSQL data modeling
• Experience in complex fleet management IoT solutions
• Experience in hot and cold data path strategies
• Fluent in continuous delivery, continuous integration, and A/B testing
• Hands-on experience with Agile methodologies
• Scientific- computing experience (e.g., R, MATLAB, Python, machine learning)
• Demonstrated strong communication skills in articulating complex topics to non-technical audiences
• Proven leadership, teamwork, interpersonal, and influential skills beyond the span of control
• Proven business case development, business process mapping, and strategic planning
• Experience in managing business change, project management methods, and tools
• Experience in managing technical partnerships and relationships with internal and external teams
• Ensuring compliance with strict SLA requirements around overall message latency and system availability  
• Creating proofs-of-concept to evaluate potential technology solutions
• Providing technical input and recommendations to the leadership team
• A solid understanding and experience of architecture patterns including ESB, SOA, database, integration, and cloud architecture
• A self-driven, highly motivated technologist who can work with a high degree of autonomy and can prioritize effectively
• A business-minded person who can work collaboratively and has proven experience in creating influence across product teams, delivery, and IS to drive technical efforts
• Someone who is articulate and can effectively communicate with technical teams, non-technical business leaders, and clients 

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