Architect - FDE

Architect - Forward Deployed Engineering

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 enterprises have achieved tangible, hard-dollar results, such as:

• Over $40 million in annual EBITDA savings at a single enterprise.
• 10× frontline productivity improvements through mobile-first and AI-enabled workflows.
• 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:

• Named a Leader in the Frost & Sullivan Industrial Connected Worker Radar.
• Featured by Gartner in “Connected Factory Worker” research and the Hype Cycle for Manufacturing Operations Strategy.
• 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.

Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) is Innovapptive's technical team embedded directly with customers. You'll be part of a small, senior architecture group responsible for how the Innovapptive platform fits into each customer's enterprise landscape — from the first technical conversation through go-live and beyond.

As an Architect, you'll own the technical architecture for how Innovapptive integrates into a customer's enterprise environment — their ERP, their infrastructure, their security model. You'll be the technical thread on your accounts from the first conversation through production, not a pre-sales-only resource.

• Own technical architecture and enterprise fitment for assigned customer accounts
• Design integration, deployment, and security architecture spanning Innovapptive's platform and the customer's existing systems (SAP, IBM Maximo, middleware, identity/security, cloud infrastructure)
• Support technical evaluations for prospective customers, and stay engaged with the account through deployment and stabilization
• Partner closely with field engineering from the start of an engagement through go-live
• Participate in architecture governance and review processes to keep designs consistent across customers
• Make technical trade-off calls spanning our platform and customer environments
• Mentor engineers on architecture patterns as they deploy and support the platform in the field

• 10+ years in enterprise architecture, solutions architecture, or technical pre-sales for complex B2B/enterprise software
• Deep experience with integration architecture — APIs, middleware, data pipelines — and enterprise systems such as SAP or IBM Maximo
• Working knowledge of identity, security, and network architecture in enterprise and cloud environments
• Comfortable owning technical decisions directly with customer architects and IT leadership
• Experience staying engaged with an account beyond the sales cycle — through deployment and stabilization

• Experience with industrial or asset-intensive customers (manufacturing, utilities, oil & gas, EAM)
• Familiarity with mobile and offline-first application architecture