Overview
Description:
Aramco energizes the world economy.
Aramco occupies a unique position in the global energy industry. We are the world’s largest producer of hydrocarbons (oil and gas), with the lowest upstream carbon intensity of any major producer.
With our significant investment in technology and infrastructure, we strive to maximize the value of the energy we produce for the world along with a commitment to enhance Aramco’s value to society.
Headquartered in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and with offices around the world, we combine market discipline with a generations’ spanning view of the future, born of our nine decades experience as responsible stewards of the Kingdom’s vast hydrocarbon resources. This responsibility has driven us to deliver significant societal and economic benefits to not just the Kingdom, but also to a vast number of communities, economies, and countries that rely on the vital and reliable energy that we supply.
We are one of the most profitable companies in the world, as well as amongst the top five global companies by market capitalization.
Overview
We are seeking a Digital Solutions Specialist to join our Digital Transformation Office (DTO).
DTO are responsible for providing accelerated digital transformation through partnering with business organizations across the company.
Your primary role is to lead the engagement across our business to develop a digital transformation roadmap and identification of digital solutions driven by business challenges and business value. You will handle the growth and success of a business, involve market insights, identify opportunities for new growth, follow industry trends, and support with a variety of marketing and business development activities for the organization.
Key Responsibilities
As the successful candidate you will be required to perform the following:
- Develop and lead high impact digital transformation, top-down, cross-organizational, programs and initiatives at various business levels.
- Develop and review digital business engagement strategies, partnership themes, and business plan initiatives and ensure alignment with digital and corporate strategic objectives.
- Conduct engagement workshops, identify top and complex business challenges, ideate relevant digital solutions, perform economic studies and cost analysis and facilitate design thinking practices.
- Prioritize digital use cases, secure funds, facilitate Minimum Viable Products and digital solutions development with execution agencies.
- Act as the digital organization focal point of contact and coordinator with regards to the respective digital transformation and related activities (Scalability, Citizen Development, Value Realization, business planning, maturity, upskilling).
- Act as the digital transformation program gatekeeper and innovation master for complex business challenges and ensure alignment with the digital roadmaps, digital demand and other digital organizations.
- Monitor the development of identified digital solutions and Minimum Viable Products with execution agencies and advise management and stakeholders.
- Coordinate and align with the digital investment team for potential local and global investments of identified digital solutions.
- Develop and maintain agile methodologies and best practices and ensure best in class application with business and development teams.
Minimum Requirements
- As the successful candidate you will hold a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering or a related engineering discipline, Computer Science, MIS, IT or BA from a recognized and approved program. An advanced degree is preferred.
- You will have a minimum of 10 years of experience in digital technology project management including at least 2 years within an Upstream or Downstream industry.
- Experience in the field of innovative and digitally disruptive products, markets and trends is required.
Working environment
Our high-performing employees are drawn by the challenging and rewarding professional, technical and industrial opportunities we offer, and are remunerated accordingly.
At Aramco, our people work on truly world-scale projects, supported by investment in capital and technology that is second to none. And because, as a global energy company, we are faced with addressing some of the world’s biggest technical, logistical and environmental challenges, we invest heavily in talent development.
We have a proud history of educating and training our workforce over many decades. Employees at all levels are encouraged to improve their sector-specific knowledge and competencies through our workforce development programs – one of the largest in the world.
Job ID: 15497
About Saudi Aramco
Saudi Aramco is the world’s largest integrated oil and gas company; its upstream operations are based in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and it also operates a global downstream business. Headquartered in the city of Dhahran, the company operates in eight locations within the Kingdom and 20 locations overseas, and employs around 76,000 people.
