Architect - FDE

Role overview

Architect - FDE at Innovapptive

Employment details

• Location: Hyderabad [Telangana] [India]

About the employer

• 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.
• About the Team 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.
• The Opportunity 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.