Integration Solution Architect (Industrial SaaS / OTIT Architecture)

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 Role

• The Integration Solution Architect (Industrial SaaS / OTIT Architecture) will define and lead Innovapptives global integration architecture across industrial and enterprise systems.
• Reporting to the VP of Technology & Architecture this leader will own the end-to-end design of integration frameworks data pipelines and orchestration models that connect Innovapptives Connected Worker Platform with APM MES SCADA Historian and ERP systems.
• This role is both architectural and visionary combining hands-on API design industrial data expertise and AI-assisted automation to deliver a single source of truth between the plant floor and the enterprise.

How You Will Make An Impact

1. Architect the Unified OTIT Integration Framework

• Define the integration reference architecture that unites Industrial OT systems (OSI PI Aveva GE Honeywell Yokogawa Emerson AspenTech SCADA MES) with Enterprise IT systems (SAP IBM Maximo Oracle EBS Infor JD Edwards).
• Design secure scalable real-time integration pipelines using API-led event-driven and AI-augmented orchestration patterns.
• Establish a unified data model and semantic layer to normalize plant maintenance and asset data across systems.

2. Leverage AI and Intelligent Orchestration

• Embed AI Agents to automate data mapping error reconciliation and integration health monitoring.
• Use ChatGPT and to generate integration adapters documentation and test stubs at 10 speed.
• Implement AI-driven anomaly detection on data streams to identify sync failures latency or schema drift proactively.

3. Build Reliability Security and Observability

• Instrument integrations with Sentry Datadog and custom telemetry dashboards to monitor uptime message latency and data accuracy.
• Define and enforce security authentication and compliance standards (OAuth2 TLS ISO 27001 SOC 2).
• Implement automated RCA workflows using AI summarization and pattern-based correlation.

4. Collaborate Across Domains

• Partner with Product Engineering and Customer Success to define integration roadmaps aligned with customer needs.
• Work with OT vendors (Aveva Honeywell GE OSI PI) and IT partners (SAP IBM Maximo Oracle) to co-innovate standardized connectors and plug-ins.
• Guide customer solution architects through design reviews ensuring extensibility and reusability of every integration asset.

5. Mentor and Standardize

• Establish the Integration Center of Excellence (CoE) with reusable frameworks templates and best practices.
• Coach Solution Architects and Engineers on AI-First integration design and telemetry-based validation.
• Author the Integration Architecture Playbook covering architecture diagrams API standards and testing frameworks.

What You Bring to The Team

• 12 18 years of software/integration experience with at least 5 years designing industrial or enterprise integration architectures.
• Deep hands-on expertise in OT systems (APM SCADA MES Historian OSI PI Aveva GE Honeywell AspenTech) and IT systems (SAP PM/MM IBM Maximo Oracle EBS Infor).
• Proven experience in REST GraphQL MQTT OPC UA Kafka and API management platforms (MuleSoft Boomi or AWS AppFlow).
• Practical exposure to AI-assisted development tools (ChatGPT Testim) and telemetry systems (Sentry Datadog CloudWatch).
• Strong understanding of cloud architectures (AWS Azure) security standards and industrial data models.
• Exceptional cross-functional communication skills and ability to influence enterprise and plant-level stakeholders.

Success Metrics (FIRST 90-180 Days)

• Unified OTIT Integration Framework designed and approved.
• AI-assisted connector factory operational producing reusable integrations 50 % faster.
• Integration uptime 99.9 % across pilot customers.
• Telemetry dashboards live for data latency failure rate and RCA automation.
• Integration CoE playbook published and adopted across engineering.

Why does this Role Matter

• The Integration Solution Architect is the critical bridge between the control room and the boardroom.
  By building intelligent pipelines between OT and IT this leader ensures that Innovapptives platform becomes the digital nervous system of industrial operations where AI data and human action flow seamlessly.
• This role defines how information moves decisions accelerate and value multiplies across every site every asset and every user.

What We Offer

• Competitive leadership compensation and equity participation.
• Opportunity to define the global Industrial SaaS OTIT integration framework for a category-defining platform.
• Hybrid work model Hyderabad or remote with periodic travel to Houston HQ.
• Direct exposure to world-class industrial and enterprise ecosystems (SAP OSI PI Aveva Honeywell Maximo).

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.