Architect - AI Products
Houston, TX, US, 77042
Phillips 66 & YOU - Together we can fuel the future
Phillips 66 is building the data and analytics capabilities needed to support a range of business areas, including Commercial. As the Senior Advisor II, Architect - AI Products, you will shape the architecture for data-driven products that improve business decision-making, operational efficiency, and performance. This role connects business needs with practical product delivery. You will work with traders, analysts, engineers, data scientists, and enterprise technology teams to design products that bring together market, operational, financial, and trading data. You will build on the Enterprise Analytics Data-as-a-Service platform and focus on the data models, integrations, workflows, and product capabilities needed by the business.
What You’ll Do
- Define product and solution architecture for data, analytics, and AI products supporting enterprise and business functions, including Commercial.
- Translate business problems into scalable product designs, roadmaps, data models, and integration patterns.
- Design data pipelines and integrations across market data, trading systems, operational systems, external sources, and enterprise platforms.
- Establish reusable data models and transformation patterns for energy data, curves, deals, nominations, positions, assets, vessels, locations, and other business entities.
- Improve data quality, standardization, lineage, and reporting so users can make decisions with confidence.
- Help replace manual spreadsheet-based processes with reliable decision-support products and automated workflows.
- Identify opportunities to apply ML and AI where they improve forecasting, optimization, automation, or user experience.
- Partner with Enterprise Analytics as the delivery engine and help teams apply consistent architecture, engineering, and governance standards.
- Guide product teams through design, development, integration, testing, deployment, and production support.
- Communicate effectively with technical teams, business stakeholders, and leaders.
What Success Looks Like
- Business users have reliable products that combine data from multiple sources and reduce manual work.
- Data pipelines and integrations are reusable, documented, observable, and built for scale.
- Energy and trading data is standardized enough to support reporting, analytics, automation, and AI use cases.
- New products move from business idea to production more quickly.
- Data quality and integrity are addressed in the product and upstream systems rather than through manual reconciliation.
- AI and ML capabilities are applied to practical business problems with measurable value.
What You’ll Bring – Required
- Legally authorized to work in the job posting country
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field
- 7 or more years of experience designing and delivering data-intensive products, integrations, or enterprise applications
- Advanced proficiency in data engineering, data modeling, APIs, system integration, and batch or event-driven pipelines
- Advanced proficiency in front-end and full-stack development using React, Node.js, and C#
- Advanced proficiency in translating business requirements into product and solution architecture
- Advanced proficiency in working across the full product lifecycle, including design, development, testing, deployment, and support
- Travel up to 5% of the time
What Makes You Stand Out – Preferred
- Experience working effectively with business stakeholders, engineers, data scientists, and enterprise platform teams
- Experience with commodities, energy, power, gas scheduling, trading, refining, logistics, or physical operations
- Experience with trading or scheduling platforms such as ENDUR or RightAngle
- Experience with market and energy data sources
- Experience with Databricks, Data Factory, cloud platforms, data lakes, or enterprise data services
- Experience building common data models for curves, deals, nominations, positions, or physical assets
- Experience developing decision-support products that improve data integrity, standardization, reporting, or workflow automation
- Experience applying ML or AI to operational, scheduling, forecasting, or business use cases
- Familiarity with enterprise AI code assistant development and the product, security, governance, and integration considerations involved
- Experience managing and coordinating onshore and offshore delivery teams in an Agile environment
- Familiarity with data quality, lineage, observability, and governance practices
Compensation Range
This position has a base salary range of $160,200 – $195,800..
At Phillips 66, we are committed to pay transparency and competitive, equitable compensation. Each role is assigned a salary grade with a defined pay range, benchmarked against industry peers. Where a candidate offer falls within the posted range depends on the candidate's experience, skills, and alignment with the role’s requirements. Offers are made to ensure internal equity and market competitiveness. Our compensation programs are designed to reward performance and support career growth.
Total Rewards
At Phillips 66, providing access to high quality programs and care for you and your family is important to us. Maintaining a culture of well-being — physical, emotional, social, and financial — is essential for a high-performing organization. When we are at our best, we are poised to deliver exceptional results — personally and professionally. Benefits for certain eligible, full-time employees include:
- Annual Variable Cash Incentive Program (VCIP) bonus
- 8% 401k company match
- Cash Balance Account pension
- Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits with an annual company contribution to a Health Savings Account for employees on HDHP
- Total well-being programs and incentives, including Employee Assistance Plan, well-being reimbursement, and backup family care services
Learn more about Phillips 66 Total Rewards.
Phillips 66 has more than 140 years of experience in providing the energy that enables people to dream bigger and go farther, faster. We are committed to improving lives, and that is our promise to our employees and our communities. We are sustained by the backgrounds and experiences of our diverse teams, which reflect who we are, the environment we create and how we work together. We have been recognized by the Human Rights Campaign, U.S. Department of Labor and the Military Times for our continued commitment to inclusive practices and policies in the hiring and retention of those in the LGBTQ+ community and military veterans. Our company is built on values of safety, honor and commitment. We call our cultural mindset Our Energy in Action, which we define through four simple, intuitive behaviors: We work for the greater good, cultivate an environment of trust, seek different perspectives and pursue excellence.
Learn more about Phillips 66 and how we are working to meet the world's energy needs today and tomorrow, by visiting phillips66.com.
To be considered
In order to be considered for this position you must complete the entire application process, which includes answering all prescreening questions and providing your eSignature on or before the requisition closing date of 10/29/2026.
Candidates for regular U.S. positions must be a U.S. citizen or national, or an alien admitted as permanent resident, refugee, asylee or temporary resident under 8 U.S.C. 1160(a) or 1255(a)(1). Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1, H-1, H-2, L, B, J, or TN or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible for hire.
Phillips 66 is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Nearest Major Market: Houston