Enterprise Architect

IND KCI Medical India Private limited; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Solventum is seeking an experienced IT Enterprise Architect to guide the global architecture strategy from India, shaping target-state roadmaps and governing technology portfolios. You will lead architecture governance, coordinate with diverse teams, and drive modernization using cloud and AI technologies.

The role emphasizes strategic influence, scalable design, and the potential to grow into formal people leadership as the architecture practice matures.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher with at least 10 years in Enterprise/Technical Architecture
• Strong ability to translate strategy into actionable roadmaps
• Experience with architecture review boards, governance, and portfolio management
• Proven ability to lead globally distributed teams and influence stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Coordinate, publish, and measure adoption of architectural artifacts
• Facilitate Architecture Review Board activities and stakeholder engagement
• Lead technology asset management governance and lifecycle standards
• Own and improve ServiceNow Application Portfolio Management processes
• Define current/target state architectures for applications, data, integrations, and infrastructure
• Drive technology lifecycle management and modernization initiatives
• Lead architecture delivery and potentially people leadership as capability matures

Skills

Enterprise Architecture

Architecture governance

Architecture reviews

Technology governance

Leadership / influence

Agile/Waterfall PM

Communication

Emerging tech adoption

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in a related field

Extensive enterprise/technical architecture experience

Tools

ServiceNow CMDB

ServiceNow APM

SAP S/4HANA

Salesforce.com

AWS

Azure Cloud

Microsoft 365

Job description

At Solventum, we improve lives by helping healthcare professionals do their best work. Join a team using innovation and insight to make a real impact on the future of healthcare.

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Job Description: 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. undefined undefined
• 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. undefined
• Technology Lifecycle Management: Conduct research, assess and evangelize new technologies where appropriate, and drive lifecycle management for implemented technologies. Partner with business, product, platform, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and operations teams to guide modernization, standardization, consolidation, retirement, and investment decisions. undefined undefined
• Delivery Leadership: Lead architecture delivery through influence by coordinating architects, platform teams, and cross-functional stakeholders in the creation and publication of detailed architectural artifacts and technical solutions. As the capability matures, this role may expand to include formal people leadership responsibilities for architects or architecture delivery teams.

Your Skills and Expertise:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher AND ten (10) years of Enterprise Architect and/or Technical Architect experience in a private, public, government or military environment OR High School Diploma/GED AND fourteen (14) years of Enterprise Architect and/or Technical Architect experience in a private, public, government or military environment
• Enterprise Architecture experience, which includes business, application, data, technology, and security architecture domains, with demonstrated ability to define architecture direction and translate strategy into actionable roadmaps.
• Architecture experience managing architecture review boards, conducting architecture reviews, administering technology governance and portfolio management practices, and driving technology innovation and emerging and AI technology adoption.
• Agile and/or waterfall project management experience
• Experience with one or more of the following technologies or platforms: ServiceNow CMDB and Application Portfolio Management, SAP S/4HANA, Salesforce.com, SAP BTP/Datasphere, MuleSoft, Snowflake, AWS and Azure Cloud, Zscaler, Microsoft 365, Power Platform, and Copilot.
• Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include: Technology Governance Expertise: Proven ability to design and govern end-to-end target states, roadmaps, and capability models that align strategy to execution.
• Technology Architecture and Asset Management Expertise: Expertise with enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman), modeling standards, and modern architecture practices including cloud-native, event-driven, microservices, API-first, agentic operating models, and data-centric architectures.
• ServiceNow APM Process Ownership: Experience managing technology lifecycles and architecture portfolios using platforms such as ServiceNow CMDB, Application Portfolio Management (APM), and related governance and observability solutions.
• Global Collaboration from India: Ability to lead globally distributed architecture, platform, and business stakeholders from India, including working effectively across time zones, influencing teams without direct authority, and building credibility as a senior individual contributor.
• Written and verbal communication skills and ability to evangelize and translate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
• Problem solving and analytical abilities to assess current IT landscape, identify gaps, and develop optimal solutions.
• Leadership skills to influence decision-making, guide architecture delivery, mentor others, and demonstrate readiness to expand into formal people leadership as the organization’s architecture capability grows.
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.
• Relevant certifications (e.g. TOGAF, AWS/Azure Architect, CISSP/CCSP, ITIL).

Work location:

Remote or Hybrid, aligned to Solventum India business needs

Travel:

May include up to 15%

Relocation Assistance:

May be authorized, based on Solventum India policy and business needs

Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status).

Supporting Your Well-being

Solventum offers many programs to help you live your best life – both physically and financially. To ensure competitive pay and benefits, Solventum regularly benchmarks with other companies that are comparable in size and scope. Solventum is committed to maintaining the highest standards of integrity and professionalism in our recruitment process. Applicants must remain alert to fraudulent job postings and recruitment schemes that falsely claim to represent Solventum and seek to exploit job seekers. Please note that all email communications from Solventum regarding job opportunities with the company will be from an email with a domain of @solventum.com. Be wary of unsolicited emails or messages regarding Solventum job opportunities from emails with other email domains.

A new healthcare company

A new healthcare company with a rich history. With more than 70 years of delivering healthcare innovations, we continue to move the industry forward by helping to solve our customers’ biggest challenges. 20,000+ employees worldwide. Solventum relies on the courage and the boundless insights of professionals worldwide to achieve exceptional results for our customers and those who rely on them. Healthcare that leads with heart and humility starts with listening and never finishes, only evolves. As long as healthcare challenges remain unsolved, we will be here, united by empathy and a relentless belief that countless lives are improved through our work. Operations in 38 countries. Driven by our dedication to improved outcomes for all we serve, we break through by making unprecedented connections that impact lives. In more than 300 offices and facilities around the world, we work closely with customers and partners to create positive healthcare outcomes that transcend borders. To realize our shared vision, we harness diverse talents and perspectives from every background to not only address our customers' most urgent priorities but anticipate the needs of the future.