Enterprise Architect - Enterprise AI Platform & Governance

Job Title - Enterprise Architect - Enterprise AI Platform & Governance Location: Kharadi, Pune, India.

Life Unlimited. At Smith+Nephew, we design and manufacture technology that takes the limits off living.

Smith+Nephew is seeking an Enterprise Architect - Enterprise AI Platform & Governance to lead the enterprise-wide AI architecture strategy, governance, standards and adoption roadmap. This role will serve as the central architecture authority for Artificial Intelligence initiatives across the organisation, defining enterprise AI standards, Agent-to-Agent (A2A) communication patterns, Model Context Protocol (MCP) frameworks, integration architectures, security controls and enterprise deployment guidelines. The role will partner with business leaders, digital transformation teams, platform owners, cybersecurity, data teams and external technology partners to establish scalable, secure, compliant and reusable AI solutions. It will participate in the Architecture Review Board (ARB), govern AI technology decisions, lead platform evaluations and selection scoring, and provide templates, playbooks, reference architectures and roadmaps to accelerate enterprise AI adoption.

What will you be doing? Enterprise AI Architecture & Strategy

• Define enterprise AI architecture vision, principles, standards, reference architectures and target-state roadmap.
• Create enterprise-grade patterns for Generative AI, Agentic AI, RAG, orchestration, model integration and AI operations.