Solution Architect Industrial SaaS (Business-First Technology Leadership)

Location: Hyderabad India

Employment Type: Full-Time; Salaried

Compensation: Base Salary Bonus Stock Options Medical

Job Description

About Us

Innovapptive is a category-defining SaaS company building the worlds most advanced AI-powered Connected Worker Platform for the industrial sector. Headquartered in Houston TX and backed by Vista Equity Partners Innovapptive is on a mission to reimagine how industrial work gets done connecting frontline workers back-office systems and assets in real time to drive higher safety reliability and productivity.

Our platform is trusted by some of the worlds largest enterprises including Shell Hess Cenovus Energy Westlake Chemicals UNICEF Kimberly Clark Scott Miracle Gro and Newmont Mining to name a few and across chemicals energy mining and manufacturing industries. These customers have achieved tangible hard-dollar results such as:

• Over $40 million in annual EBITDA savings at a single enterprise.
• 10 frontline productivity improvements through mobile-first and AI-enabled workflows.
• 1520% maintenance cost reductions and significant uptime gains across plants and sites.

Innovapptive is recognized by leading industry analysts for its differentiated value creation model:

• Named a Leader in the Frost & Sullivan Industrial Connected Worker Radar.
• Featured by Gartner in Connected Factory Worker research and the Hype Cycle for Manufacturing Operations Strategy.
• Cited by LNS Research for delivering 35 greater value than point solutions through unified OTIT execution AI/vision innovation and field-proven ROI.

Our growth is backed by Tiger Global Management and Vista Equity Partners one of the worlds premier software investors known for scaling high-performance SaaS companies. Together we are building the next-generation AI Powered Connected Worker Platform combining cutting-edge technologies SLMs Generative AI Computer Vision and Intelligent Orchestration into a unified system that transforms plant operations globally.

Today with over 300 employees across the U.S. India and ANZ Innovapptive stands at a pivotal inflection point: with an ambition to scale to $100M ARR within the next 3-4 years by industrializing every aspect of our product engineering and customer delivery systems.

The Opportunity

We are seeking a Solution Architect Industrial SaaS who combines deep problem-solving capability business-first thinking and technical architecture leadership.

This is a customer-facing delivery-aligned role that bridges business outcomes digital architecture and system reliability. The Solution Architect acts as the #1 problem solver and technical escalation point ensuring that every Innovapptive implementation achieves fast adoption seamless reliability and measurable value realization.

You will work hand-in-hand with Solution Consultants (domain experts) Implementation Leads and Engineering to design resilient architectures address adoption-blocking non-functional requirements and drive enterprise-grade solution performance.

How You Will Make An Impact.

1. Business-First Problem Solving

• Act as the customers trusted technology advisor to diagnose and resolve roadblocks impacting adoption reliability or performance.
• Translate frontline pain (e.g. sync issues latency connectivity challenges poor UX) into actionable technical and process resolutions.
• Lead RCA sessions to identify architecture or configuration issues slowing time-to-value.
• Ensure all solutions are designed to drive quantifiable business outcomes in safety reliability and cost take-out.

2. Architecture Leadership & NFR Ownership

• Own end-to-end architecture for customer implementations including security scalability performance and offline reliability.
• Define and validate NFRs: Wi-Fi resilience offline sync strategy SSO (SAML OAuth2) API and integration architecture and deployment models (public/private cloud).
• Partner with customer IT and engineering teams to ensure solution readiness and compliance with enterprise standards (SOC 2 GDPR ISO 27001).
• Create detailed architecture artifacts: solution blueprints data flow diagrams API integration maps and configuration matrices.

3. Adoption Acceleration & Value Realization

• Measure and drive improvements in crash-free sessions sync reliability latency and uptime to ensure world-class user experience.
• Collaborate with Solution Consultants to link architecture quality with operational KPIs (e.g. PM/CM mix backlog schedule compliance).
• Participate in Executive SteerCo sessions to present technical risk mitigations adoption progress and reliability metrics.

4. Cross-Functional Leadership

• Serve as the bridge between Professional Services Product Engineering and Customer IT ensuring fast issue resolution and proactive design governance.
• Provide hands-on technical mentorship to implementation consultants and engineers.
• Champion architecture governance across all customer programs driving consistency and reusability.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering to influence roadmap priorities through field-derived insights.

5. Continuous Improvement & CoE Contribution

• Contribute to the Solution Architecture Center of Excellence by developing design accelerators troubleshooting frameworks and NFR playbooks.
• Institutionalize best practices in reliability performance tuning and scalability.
• Support internal readiness initiatives and coach teams on architecture-driven delivery excellence.

What You Bring to the Team

• 815 years of experience in Industrial SaaS EAM or Connected Worker Platforms (SAP PM IBM Maximo Oracle eAM or Infor EAM).
• Proven expertise in designing cloud-native mobile-first architectures with offline sync API orchestration and enterprise-grade security.
• Strong grasp of maintenance and reliability processes and ability to translate them into digital solutions delivering tangible business value.
• Experience with AWS/Azure cloud services MuleSoft/Boomi/Logic Apps and API testing tools (Postman Swagger).
• Deep understanding of non-functional requirements performance scalability data privacy availability and user experience.
• Exceptional problem-solving troubleshooting and analytical thinking with strong executive communication skills.
• Experience in Agile SaaS delivery models with distributed onshore/offshore teams.

Preferred Education & Certifications

• Bachelors or Masters in Engineering Computer Science or Information Systems.
• Certifications preferred:
  • AWS/Azure Solutions Architect
  • TOGAF or equivalent architecture frameworks
  • CMRP CAMA or equivalent reliability certification (highly valued)
  • PMP or SAFe Agile

Why Join Us

• Be the architect of reliability and adoption for the worlds leading industrial brands.
• Influence how industrial SaaS is designed delivered and scaled globally.
• Collaborate with top minds in maintenance operations and technology.
• Work in a culture that values initiative ownership and measurable impact.
• Competitive compensation performance-linked rewards and comprehensive benefits.

Innovapptive does not accept and will not review unsolicited resumes from search firms.

Innovapptive is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion or creed alienage or citizenship status political affiliation marital or partnership status age national origin ancestry physical or mental disability medical condition veteran status gender gender identity pregnancy childbirth (or related medical conditions) sex sexual orientation sexual and other reproductive health decisions genetic disorder genetic predisposition carrier status military status familial status or domestic violence victim status and any other basis protected under federal state or local laws.