Solution Architect
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. These customers have achieved tangible, hard-dollar results, such as:
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Over $40 million in annual EBITDA savings at a single enterprise.
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10× frontline productivity improvements through mobile-first and AI-enabled workflows.
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15–20% maintenance cost reductions and significant uptime gains across plants and sites.
Innovapptive is recognized by leading industry analysts for its differentiated value creation model:
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Named a Leader in the Frost & Sullivan Industrial Connected Worker Radar.
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Featured by Gartner in “Connected Factory Worker” research and the Hype Cycle for Manufacturing Operations Strategy.
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Cited by LNS Research for delivering 3–5× greater value than point solutions through unified OT–IT execution, AI/vision innovation, and field-proven ROI.
Our growth is backed by Tiger Global Management and Vista Equity Partners, one of the world’s 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 — SLM’s, 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.
We are seeking a seasoned Solution Architect who will lead the strategy, architecture, and delivery excellence of Innovapptive’s field mobility and connected worker product portfolio. This role combines deep problem–solving capability. technical architecture leadership. and customer-facing stakeholder management. The Architect will own the mobility platform strategy across Asset Management, Work Execution, Field Service, and Maintenance workflows. This includes driving product evolution, ensuring enterprise-grade scalability. and partnering with global customers to translate business pain points into field-ready digital solutions.
This is a hands-on technical architect who combines deep product knowledge with excellent customer engagement skills.
The ideal candidate will have strong program delivery skills, and a passion for driving measurable outcomes in terms of delivering Reliability, Scalability & Time-to-value for customers with our product.
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Serve as a senior technical leader for strategic customers, shaping end-to-end field mobility transformation programs.
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Engage directly with CIOs, enterprise architects, product teams, and field operations leadership to understand pain points and craft scalable solutions. (requirements capture, solution walkthroughs, integration design sessions).
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Lead requirement engineering, functional design, and E2E business process modeling for field mobility scenarios.
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Translate business and technical requirements into formal artifacts: Application Design Documents (ADD) and integration specifications.
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Drive architecture reviews, proof-of-concepts, and design signoffs with customer technical and IT stakeholders.
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Own the technical relationship during pre-sales, implementation, and operational handover phases.
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Present technical proposals, RFP responses, and product roadmap briefings to CXOs. consistent with the candidate’s pre-sales and post-sales leadership experience across global transformation programs.
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Architect secure, high-performance integrations between Innovapptive products and enterprise systems (SAP ECC/S/4, IBM Maximo, Oracle EAM/ERP, GIS, MES, historians, identity providers) and enterprise authentication systems.
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Define API contracts, authentication models, message flows, error handling, and data mapping for synchronous and asynchronous integrations (REST, SOAP, OData, IDocs, MQ).
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Architect reliable offline sync, conflict resolution, and mobile data strategies for constrained/edge environments with notifications. workflow orchestration. mobility UX patterns. and transactional reliability.
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Collaborate with Product and Engineering to evolve product hooks, extension points, connector frameworks, and industry OOTB packages.
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Ensure technical deliverables meet Innovapptive’s Value360 standards and quality gates.
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Participate in change control, deployment reviews, and performance tuning during system rollouts.
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Setting up best practices and managing the larger customer aligning with their processes
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Willingness to travel to customer sites as required.
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Own requirement traceability. integration strategy. and domain-driven design principles across customer deployments.
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Oversee migration strategies, enterprise integration, and complex multi-system landscapes drawing from prior experience leading multi-country transformations, roll outs and migrations.
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Guide engineering managers, solution architects, product managers, and field consultants to deliver high-quality implementations for Fortune 500 clients.
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Drive alignment between product vision and engineering execution. ensuring consistent delivery practices and architecture conformance.
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Define the architecture vision and long-term evolution of Innovapptive’s Field Mobility and Connected Worker products, with emphasis on reliability, offline-first mobility, SaaS scalability, and secure integrations.
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Establish platform governance. architectural roadmaps. and tech stack recommendations. leveraging cloud-native and microservice patterns aligned with enterprise customers’ expectations.
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Lead build–vs–buy decisions, architectural constraints, and technology evaluations.
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Champion innovation through POCs, MVPs, and rapid prototyping.
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10+ years’ experience of Architecture leadership experience across enterprise mobility architecture, integration, or Solution architect roles (SaaS product + services experience preferred). Or Large-scale digital transformation programs.
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Proven track record of customer-facing roles: running technical workshops, translating requirements, delivering architecture artifacts and guiding implementations.
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Strong expertise in cloud (AWS or Azure), microservices, API-led architecture, and enterprise security.
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Strong expertise in enterprise integration SAP (ECC/EHP/S4), IBM Maximo, Oracle integrations, REST/SOAP/OData, IDoc, RFC, message queues (MQ, Kafka), and middleware patterns.
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Deep understanding of field operations. EAM/CMMS domains and mobile-first architectures, offline sync engines, conflict resolution, and mobile storage strategies.
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Hands-on experience with reliability engineering: debugging app crashes, memory issues, sync conflicts, concurrency, and offline-first behaviours.
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Experience with observability tools (e.g., Sentry, Mix Panel , logging/ELK; Prometheus/Grafana; distributed tracing) and cloud monitoring.
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Familiarity with security, authentication, and authorization frameworks (i.e. OAuth2, SAML, LDAP, token management) and secure integration patterns.
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Strong scripting and diagnostic skills comfortable with investigating logs, reproducing defects, and proposing fix strategies.
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Excellent communication skills able to present technical concepts to business and technical stakeholders effectively.
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Experience leading multi-vendor implementation landscapes and complex integration programs.
Preferred Qualifications
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Experience in Connected Worker platforms. Mobile workforce management. or industrial mobility ecosystems.
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TOGAF, AWS Architect, or equivalent certifications (aligned with candidate credentials).
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Background in designing large-scale enterprise-grade applications across telecom, energy, utilities, or manufacturing sectors.
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Prior experience in pre-sales. product architecture. and customer workshops at CXO level.
Leadership Competencies
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Strategic thinking with ability to translate domain problems into platform capabilities.
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Ability to influence engineering and product teams toward architectural standards.
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Strong problem-solving. pattern-driven decision-making. and analytical discipline.
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Comfortable leading multi-country. multi-stakeholder transformation programs.
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Highly structured communicator with emphasis on clarity, rationale, and risk assessment.
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Be the architect of reliability and adoption for the world’s leading industrial brands.
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Influence how industrial SaaS is designed, delivered, and scaled globally.
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Collaborate with top minds in maintenance, operations, and technology.
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Work in a culture that values initiative, ownership, and measurable impact.
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Competitive compensation, performance-linked rewards, and comprehensive benefits.
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.
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