Solution Architect - Enterprise AI
Smith & Nephew4 days ago
Pune, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design scalable, secure, user-centric Enterprise AI and GenAI solutions aligned with business outcomes.
- Create AI blueprints, reference architectures, reusable design patterns, data-flow views, integration approaches, and architecture documentation.
- Design integrations across ERP, CRM, procurement, manufacturing, data, analytics, workflow, document management, and collaboration platforms.
- Apply API-led, event-driven, retrieval-augmented generation, orchestration, workflow automation, knowledge graph, and secure data-access patterns.
- Lead AI architecture activities from opportunity discovery and use-case shaping through deployment, adoption, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
- Lead design workshops, architecture reviews, governance forums, risk assessments, and technical issue resolution.
- Ensure AI solutions meet responsible AI, regulatory, cybersecurity, privacy, operational readiness, and business requirements.
- Design embedded AI assistant and coach-on-the-shoulder experiences with prompt design, knowledge grounding, human review, guardrails, and adoption measurement.
- Lead solution architecture for vendor-led AI delivery programs and communicate options, risks, trade-offs, and recommendations to senior stakeholders.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or equivalent experience.
- 10+ years of experience in solution architecture, enterprise applications, data and analytics, AI-enabled solutions, systems integration, or complex IT program delivery.
- Experience designing Enterprise AI, GenAI, intelligent automation, analytics, digital assistant, or workflow augmentation solutions in an enterprise environment.
- Strong understanding of manufacturing and MedTech domains, including regulated operations, quality, supply chain, manufacturing operations, compliance, validation-aware delivery, and operational risk.
- Experience designing integrations across ERP, CRM, procurement, manufacturing, cloud platforms, middleware, data platforms, SaaS applications, collaboration tools, and third-party systems.
- Experience supporting the full IT project lifecycle, including requirements, design, build, testing, validation, deployment, adoption, monitoring, and transition to support.
- Ability to collaborate with senior stakeholders, business process owners, product teams, project managers, technical and data teams, compliance partners, and external vendors in a matrixed environment.
- Commercial and procurement experience, including sales operations, customer engagement, contracting, sourcing, supplier management, purchasing, and spend or process analytics, is preferred.
- Experience with coach-on-the-shoulder, embedded assistant, decision support, knowledge management, or user-guidance initiatives is appreciated.
- Azure AI Engineer, Azure Solutions Architect, Microsoft Copilot, Responsible AI, Data & AI, cloud architecture, TOGAF, Agile, PMP, or equivalent certifications are preferred.
Benefits
- Major medical coverage and insurance benefits.
- Educational assistance.
- Flexible personal or vacation time off, privilege leave, and floater leave.
- Parents’ and parents-in-law insurance, employee assistance program, and parental leave.
- Hybrid work model for most professional roles.
- Hands-on, team-customized training and mentorship.
- Free cab transportation for all employees and one meal per shift.
- Night shift allowances.
Tech Stack
Categories
Solutions Engineering