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The individual collaborates with sales, product, and customers to deliver demos, assess digital readiness, and solve complex data integration challenges. It is a high-visibility role in a growing company, requiring hands-on technical and client-facing support throughout the pre- and post-sales process as well as mentoring junior staff members. The position reports to the Chief Customer Officer and works closely with senior leadership.\nIn this role you will:\nPre-Sales Strategy & Governance\nDefine pre-sales technical positioning, demo standards, and reference implementation strategy\nSupport executive sponsor conversations\nEnsure sales motions align with delivery and support capacity\nEstablishes architectural standards and reusable system design patterns across customers\nAlign solution architecture strategy with product and platform evolution\nDiscovery, Qualification & Delivery Governance\nDefine qualification and delivery standards\nDefines discovery frameworks that ensure consistent capture of system level requirements globally\nSet minimum technical readiness criteria\nOwn escalation path for all deals\nSolution Design & Architecture\nDefine architectural principles for scalability performance and reuse\nEnsure alignment between customer solutions and long-term platform architecture\nEmissions Architecture Standards\nDefine and govern standards for emissions calculation logic, methodology interpretation, and auditability across the portfolio\nApprove or reject architectural exceptions\nKnowledge Engineering Standards and Governance\nDefine and govern standards and processes for knowledge engineering across the portfolio ensuring integration with the CXL knowledge graph technology\nEnsure long-term maintainability of CXL knowledge graph technology\nData Integration Strategies and Standards\nSet portfolio-wide standards for asset modeling, data integration patterns, and scalability\nEnsure long-term maintainability of customer configurations\nOutput & Certification Governance\nGovern how certificates, compliance reports, and operational dashboards are designed and issued\nEnsure outputs remain defensible, verifiable, and regulator ready.\nImplementation Support\nEstablish governance to maintain architectural consistency across implementations\nEnsure adherence to system design standards globally\nSales to Delivery to Support Alignment\nEstablish and enforce standards for post-sales handoff\nAlign Sales, Solution Architect/Engineering, Delivery TPM, and Support expectations\nContinuously refine rules based on post go-live outcomes\nExperience:\nBalances revenue growth with delivery risk, regulatory exposure, and long-term platform integrity\nBuilds and leads the Solution Architecture organization\nSets standards, goals, accountability and develops future leaders\nPortfolio level understanding of emissions architecture, knowledge graph design, data integration strategy and platform scalability\nExceptional written, presentation, and verbal communication skills\nAn ability to explain technical subjects to non-technical people\nOutstanding organizational skills\nExperience with enterprise software implementations involving complex data integration and migration efforts\nPreferred:\nBachelor’s degree in engineering (process/process safety, facilities/operations, mechanical, environmental, or similar related field).\nSignificant experience in oil & gas operating facilities (upstream, midstream, or downstream) with the ability to thoroughly understand operational challenges and communicate effectively with customer personnel across functions and levels.\nProject Management and/or Agile certification is a plus.\nSolid understanding of Piping & Instrumentation Diagrams (P&IDs), Process Flow Diagrams (PFDs), Cause & Effects Charts (C&E), Electrical One-Lines, Facility Layout Drawings, and similar engineered facility drawings.\nPrior experience in software, practical understanding of modern application architectures, and/or experience with RESTful API integration would be a plus but not required.\nExperience writing SQL queries to extract, analyze, or manipulate data from relational databases; comfort navigating large or complex datasets is preferred.\nExperience with the Atlassian suite of management tools preferred.\nCurrently residing in Abu Dhabi.\nWhy you’ll like it here:\nContext Labs is collaborative at its core. You’ll work within your team and across the organization allowing for continuous learning and discovery.\nWe set goals that matter and provide value in all that we do, from building meaningful products to positively impacting carbon reduction and climate change.\nContext Labs’ mission is to transform complex data into a trusted data fabric that delivers context-driven insights that enable human networks to spot patterns, correlate trends - and reveal the truth hidden inside the world’s most complicated, persistent problems.\nWe understand that applying for a job can be intimidating. Applicants rarely meet every single job requirement, and we know there are many skills and backgrounds that will contribute to success in this role. If you’re interested in applying, please do so.\nContext Labs embraces diversity and equal opportunity. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We believe the more inclusive we are, the better our products will be. Context Labs will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require accommodation, please contact Human Resources at .\nWho we are:\nContext Labs is dedicated to sourcing, organizing, and contextualizing the world’s climate information. The company enables data to become trusted, shared, and utilized as Asset Grade Data (AGD™), providing insights and solutions to inform markets. Context Labs mission is to provide the world’s trusted data fabric platform, delivering Asset Grade Data to customers using the Immutably™ Enterprise Data Fabric platform, deploying machine learning, Artificial Intelligence, and cryptographic blockchain technologies, for context-driven insights.\nBuilding on the Immutably™ Enterprise Data Fabric platform, the company has deployed Decarbonization-as-a-Service™ (DaaS™), which is tailored to accelerate the Global Energy Transition by providing trusted emissions performance data, and its CLEAR Path™ platform to enable customers to optimize value creation with independently certified carbon intensity for their products and services. The company was formed out of MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) research and is comprised of a leadership team that has been instrumental in the at-scale growth of the Internet, in prior companies. The company has offices in Amsterdam (Netherlands), Cambridge (Massachusetts), and Houston (Texas).\nWe are a team that is hiring and growing! 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