Enterprise Architect

Ownership of Vitol's enterprise technology blueprints, defining target state architectures for key business systems, platforms, and high-throughput integration layers leveraging the BDAT model. Establishing a lightweight, agile Architecture Advisory Framework that reviews high-risk technical decisions, core integration points, and major vendor selections without introducing corporate friction or slowing down business delivery. Define technology and integration based on Vitol’s main architecture principles, provide guidance and awareness within the technology teams. Identify technical debt and provide guidance on how to replace it. Defining clear decision criteria for custom software builds versus standard platform adoption, while systematically eliminating legacy technical debt, shadow IT, and redundant platform investments across business units. Own, support and govern the application and technology landscape inventory platform, mapping each of them to owners and business capabilities. Working closely with product engineering leads, trading desks, the Executive Technology team, CyberOps, and Cloud & Infrastructure teams. Promote the newly created function within the company, hire, develop and retain future Enterprise Architects. Own the technology demand management process.

Vitol is an energy and commodities company with revenues of $331 billion in 2024; its primary business is the trading and distribution of energy products globally – it trades over seven million barrels per day of crude oil and products and, at any time, has 250 ships transporting its cargoes. Vitol’s clients include national oil companies, multinationals, leading industrial companies and utilities. Founded in Rotterdam in 1966, today Vitol serves clients from some 40 offices worldwide and is invested in energy assets globally including 24mM3 of storage, 850kbpd of refining capacity, and 10,000 service stations. To date, we have committed over $2.5 billion of capital to renewable projects and are identifying and developing low-carbon opportunities around the world.

• Undergraduate or postgraduate degree in a technical discipline.

• 7+ years of experience in enterprise architecture or technical leadership, with at least 5 years in a senior executive role.

• Proven track record of establishing lean, pragmatic architecture governance models.

• Hands-on expertise designing modern, event-driven architectures.

• Deep understanding of cloud-native application patterns.

• Demonstrated experience building AI and Agentic capabilities.

• Ensuring security and resiliency remain at the top of every architecture decision.