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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
To set you up for success in this role from day one, Solventum requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:
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
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High School Diploma/GED AND fourteen (14) years of Enterprise Architect and/or Technical Architect experience in a private, public, government or military environment
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In addition to the above requirements, the following skills and experiences are also required:
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.
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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.
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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
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