Technology & Innovation (R&D) Solution Architect

About Convatec

Pioneering trusted medical solutions to improve the lives we touch: Convatec is a global medical products and technologies company, focused on solutions for the management of chronic conditions, with leading positions in Advanced Wound Care, Ostomy Care, Continence Care, and Infusion Care. With more than 10,000 colleagues, we provide our products and services in around 90 countries, united by a promise to be forever caring. Our solutions provide a range of benefits, from infection prevention and protection of at-risk skin, to improved patient outcomes and reduced care costs. Convatec’s revenues in 2024 were over $2 billion. The company is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index (LSE:CTEC). To learn more please visit http://www.convatecgroup.com

 

The TNI Solution Architect is a versatile, highly skilled technology generalist responsible for shaping and delivering enterprise architecture across Convatec’s innovation, infrastructure, and platform portfolio.

This role is broad and hands-on, supporting initiatives such as:
• Cloud and on-premise hosting architecture
• Server migrations, data centre transitions, and re-platforming
• Custom-built applications and bespoke software solutions
• Database migrations and optimisation
• Enterprise integration and middleware patterns
• Legacy system modernization
• Evaluation and POCs of emerging technologies
• R&D, innovation pilots and rapid architectural prototyping

The Solution Architect will work closely with the TNI leadership team, engineering groups, security, infrastructure, business stakeholders, and third-party partners to ensure scalable, secure, and future-ready architectural outcomes.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead solution architecture for Technology & Innovation (R&D)  initiatives spanning custom development, infrastructure, hosting environments, cloud platforms, on-premise systems, database transitions, and enterprise integrations.

• Design and document high-quality solution design artefacts for a wide range of technology solutions, from infrastructure modernization to custom application builds.

• Architect cloud-based and hybrid hosting environments (Azure preferred), including servers, networks, load balancing, security controls, and performance optimization.

• Support server moves, application re-hosting, OS upgrades, lifecycle transitions and re-platforming activities.

• Evaluate and design on-premise architecture for solutions that require local hosting, regulatory compliance, or low-latency demands.

• Lead database migration strategies, including SQL, Oracle, MySQL, NoSQL, and legacy database modernisation.

• Provide architectural guidance on integration patterns such as API-led connectivity, microservices, ESB, event-driven architectures, middleware, and GraphQL.

• Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure solutions are delivered according to architectural standards and security-by-design principles.

• Identify technology gaps, risks, and improvement opportunities across existing environments.

• Lead or support technology pilots, hackathons, emerging-technology experiments, and rapid prototyping for the Technology & Innovation (R&D) organisation.

• Act as Technical Design Authority (TDA) for assigned Technology & Innovation (R&D) projects.

• Ensure alignment with Convatec’s privacy, security, regulatory, and operational frameworks.

• Work with platform providers, hosting partners, and system integrators to understand product roadmaps, patterns, and best practices.

• Contribute to the future-state architecture vision for Technology & Innovation (R&D) and broader enterprise technology domains.

Note: Role based in Hyderabad, India

Key requirements

• Broad solution architecture experience covering infrastructure, platforms, cloud, integration, and custom software development.

• Regulations and standards like HIPPA, etc,

• Experience with on-premise hosting, data centre operations, server migration planning, load balancing, failover, backup/DR and hybrid environments.

• Strong background in custom-built software, including solution design, application architecture, and modern development frameworks.

• Experience with database migrations, optimisations, and cross-platform transitions (SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, etc.).

• Knowledge of enterprise integration including REST APIs, SOAP, GraphQL, messaging queues, ESB, middleware, event streaming.

• Familiarity with DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and application modernisation patterns.

• Experience writing HLA/HLD documentation that guides engineering teams through delivery.

• Strong communicator comfortable working with PMs, BAs, engineering leads, infrastructure

• Experience evaluating emerging technologies and conducting POCs.

Technical competencies

• Strong understanding of architecture modelling standards such as C4, ArchiMate, and system context modelling.

• Knowledge of Windows Server, Linux, containerisation, virtualisation (VMware, Hyper-V, Azure VM), and networking fundamentals.

• Familiarity with scripting (PowerShell, Bash, Python) to support automation and troubleshooting.

• Strong understanding of IT governance, compliance, security frameworks and operational standards.

• Good understanding of SDLC practices (Agile, DevOps, Waterfall) and the ability to work across them.

At Convatec, we’re pioneering trusted medical solutions to improve the lives we touch. If you’re ready to make a real impact, apply today and help us bring our Forever Caring promise to life.

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