Architect - Forward Deployed Engineering

Architect - Forward Deployed Engineering

Location: Hyderabad, India

Employment Type: Full-Time; Salaried

Compensation: Base Salary, Bonus, Medical

About Us

Innovapptive is a category-defining SaaS company building the world's 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 world's largest enterprises — including Shell, Hess, Cenovus Energy, W.R.Grace, Westlake Chemicals, UNICEF, Kimberly Clark, Scott Miracle Gro, and Newmont Mining to name a few, and across chemicals, energy, mining, and manufacturing industries.

About the Team

Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) is Innovapptive's technical team embedded directly with customers.

The Opportunity

As an Architect, you'll own the technical architecture for how Innovapptive integrates into a customer's enterprise environment.

How You Will Make An Impact

• Own technical architecture and enterprise fitment for assigned customer accounts
• Design integration, deployment, and security architecture spanning Innovapptive's platform and the customer's existing systems (SAP, IBM Maximo, middleware, identity/security, cloud infrastructure)
• Support technical evaluations for prospective customers, and stay engaged with the account through deployment and stabilization
• Partner closely with field engineering from the start of an engagement through go-live
• Participate in architecture governance and review processes to keep designs consistent across customers
• Make technical trade-off calls spanning our platform and customer environments
• Mentor engineers on architecture patterns as they deploy and support the platform in the field

What You Bring to the Team:

• 10+ years in enterprise architecture, solutions architecture, or technical pre-sales for complex B2B/enterprise software
• Deep experience with integration architecture — APIs, middleware, data pipelines — and enterprise systems such as SAP or IBM Maximo
• Working knowledge of identity, security, and network architecture in enterprise and cloud environments
• Comfortable owning technical decisions directly with customer architects and IT leadership
• Experience staying engaged with an account beyond the sales cycle — through deployment and stabilization

Nice to Have

• Experience with industrial or asset-intensive customers (manufacturing, utilities, oil & gas, EAM)
• Familiarity with mobile and offline-first application architecture

What We Offer above work:

• Competitive compensation
• Exceptional health, vision, and dental care
• A positive, open, and highly-innovative environment and team.
• Entrepreneurial spirit with unlimited opportunity to grow.
• Opportunity to work with leading global brands on exciting and impactful projects.
• Competitive Base Pay.
• Best of plan on Vacation & Paid Time Off.
• Provision of Medical Insurance for family - self, dependent, spouse, dependent children, parents/parent-in-laws.
• Paid Maternity and Paternity leave.
• Bi-annual reviews to ensure transparency and promote high performance culture.
• OKR Driven Performance Development Environment.
• Learning & Development - access to a wide range of e-Learning courses (technical, Product, Process, etc.,).
• A host of Interest Groups/Clubs for Book Reading, Toastmasters, Sports - Cricket, Volleyball, Throw-ball, Badminton, TT, Music.

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.