Enterprise Architect

Solventum (3M Healthcare); Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,400,000 - 5,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Solventum, formerly 3M Health Care, is seeking an IT Enterprise Architect based in India. The role leads architectural governance, sets standards, and drives a unified 3-year enterprise technology roadmap across the global organization.

You will influence technology strategy, collaborate with stakeholders, and guide Architecture Review Board activities to ensure scalable and secure solutions. The role may evolve into people leadership as the EA capability matures.

Qualifications

• Experience leading enterprise IT architecture programs.
• Strong ability to align business strategy with technology roadmaps.
• Proven skills in governance, standards, and reference architectures.

Responsibilities

• Architectural governance: publish standards and target-state definitions across domains.
• Lead Architecture Review Board activities to shape technology adoption.
• Manage technology asset governance, lifecycle, and data quality initiatives.
• Own and continuously improve ServiceNow Application Portfolio Management processes and workflows.
• Define current/target state architectures for applications, data, and infrastructure.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture

Stakeholder Management

Architecture Governance

Business-IT Alignment

Tools

ServiceNow

Job description

Job Description

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3M Health Care is now Solventum

At Solventum, we enable better, smarter, safer healthcare to improve lives. As a new company with a long legacy of creating breakthrough solutions for our customers' toughest challenges, we pioneer game-changing innovations at the intersection of health, material and data science that change patients' lives for the better while enabling healthcare professionals to perform at their best. Because people, and their wellbeing, are at the heart of every scientific advancement we pursue.

We partner closely with the brightest minds in healthcare to ensure that every solution we create melds the latest technology with compassion and empathy. Because at Solventum, we never stop solving for you.

Why Join Us

• A unique opportunity to shape the architecture of a newly formed global healthcare innovator.
• High visibility to senior executives.
• Modernization initiatives underway (SAP S/4, cloud migration, data platform modernization, AI transformation).
• Ability to influence enterprise operating models and standards across a global organization.
• Chance to mature an EA practice from the ground up.

The Impact You'll Make in this Role

The IT Enterprise Architect is a senior individual contributor role in the Global IT organization, based in India, with significant enterprise influence and visibility. This role serves as a visible change agent that drives business and technology innovation and alignment across Solventum's global enterprise. The role is expected to operate as a strategic leader within the federated Enterprise Architecture team, drive technology asset management as a strategic imperative, own ServiceNow Application Portfolio Management processes and tooling, and help deliver a unified 3-year enterprise technology roadmap that reduces duplication, increases organizational transparency and agility, and accelerates business growth and transformation. Over time, this role may expand into formal people leadership as the Enterprise Architecture capability matures in India.

This role facilitates EA team activities including defining, documenting, and governing the enterprise IT architecture. The Enterprise Architect leads architecture consulting efforts to investigate and align technology solutions with business strategies, evaluates new and emerging technologies, creates architectural blueprints and target-state definitions, and assures technology solutions are scalable, secure, supportable, and aligned to long-term enterprise architecture direction. The Architect also leads through influence in Architecture Review Board activities that shape technology innovation, govern technology adoption globally, and drive consistent architecture definition across technology domains.

Primary responsibilities include:

• Architecture Governance: Coordinate, create, publish, and measure adoption of architectural artifacts, including standards, policies, principles, reference architectures, and target-state definitions across technology domains and technology asset classes.
• Architecture Reviews: Facilitate Architecture Review Board activities ensuring responsive processes, rightsizing architecture reviews, and strengthening engagement of technical teams, business leaders, and program/project managers.
• Technology Asset Management Leadership: Lead technology asset management as a strategic imperative by establishing governance, lifecycle standards, CMDB data quality, ownership models, and decision processes that improve visibility, reduce risk, and enable rationalization across Solventum's technology portfolio.
• ServiceNow Application Portfolio Management Ownership: Own and continuously improve ServiceNow Application Portfolio Management processes, data standards, workflows, reporting, and tooling adoption to ensure accurate application inventory, business capability alignment, lifecycle status, technology risk visibility, and actionable portfolio insights.
• Technology Architecture Definition: Collaborate with business and technology stakeholders to define current-state, target-state, and transition-state architectures for enterprise technology assets including applications, data and integrations, infrastructure, security systems, and shared platforms. Establish architecture patterns, principles, and roadmaps that align with enterprise strategy and create an integrated, scalable technology landscape.
• Technology Lifecycle Management: Conduct research, assess and evangelize new technologies where appropriate, and drive lifecycle management for implemente