Enterprise Architect

Overview

Senior individual contributor role in Solventum's Global IT organization, based in India, serving as a visible change agent driving business and technology alignment across the enterprise, operating within the federated Enterprise Architecture team.

What you'll do

• Coordinate, create, publish, and measure adoption of architectural artifacts, including standards, policies, principles, reference architectures, and target-state definitions across technology domains and asset classes.
• Facilitate Architecture Review Board activities, ensuring responsive processes, rightsized architecture reviews, and strengthened engagement of technical teams, business leaders, and program/project managers.
• 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.
• Own and continuously improve ServiceNow Application Portfolio Management processes, data standards, workflows, reporting, and tooling adoption.
• Collaborate with business and technology stakeholders to define current-state, target-state, and transition-state architectures for applications, data and integrations, infrastructure, security systems, and shared platforms.
• 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.
• Lead architecture delivery through influence by coordinating architects, platform teams, and cross-functional stakeholders in creating and publishing detailed architectural artifacts and technical solutions.

What you'll need

• 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 across business, application, data, technology, and security architecture domains, with demonstrated ability to define architecture direction and translate strategy into actionable roadmaps.
• 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: 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.

Nice to have

• Proven ability to design and govern end-to-end target states, roadmaps, and capability models that align strategy to execution.
• 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.
• Experience managing technology lifecycles and architecture portfolios using ServiceNow CMDB, Application Portfolio Management (APM), and related governance and observability solutions.
• Ability to lead globally distributed architecture, platform, and business stakeholders from India, working across time zones and influencing without direct authority.
• Written and verbal communication skills and ability to evangelize and translate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
• Problem solving and analytical abilities to assess the current IT landscape, identify gaps, and develop optimal solutions.
• Leadership skills to influence decisions, guide architecture delivery, mentor others, and demonstrate readiness to expand into formal people leadership.
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., TOGAF, AWS/Azure Architect, CISSP/CCSP, ITIL).

Details

• 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.