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This position reports to:
Global Head IS Enterprise Architecture__
Your role and responsibilities
In this role, you will have the opportunity to define and govern the enterprise-wide application architecture across ABB. Each day, you will be making sure that our application landscapes evolve coherently while enabling business units and product teams to retain autonomy in how they build and run applications. You will also be responsible for setting up enterprise guardrails, target states, and decision frameworks for application architecture, focusing on modularity, lifecycle management, interoperability, and alignment to business capabilities. This role has no direct reports.
The work model for the role is: #LinkedIn_hybrid
You will be mainly accountable for:
- Directing the development of enterprise domain architecture and processes, to ensure that change is embedded in the organization management. This includes establishing guardrails for:
- Application modularity and coupling
- Buy vs build
- SaaS vs custom development
- Application lifecycle and decommissioning
- Developing, enhancing, and maintaining ABB-wide architecture best practices, policies, standards, guidelines, and processes to ensure that a consistent technology framework is applied across ABB through your own area of responsibility.
- Assessing the existing IT environment, developing a future state IT architecture, ensuring technology compatibility with existing solutions, infrastructure, services, and strategic direction, and overseeing architectural review of new designs and acting as the final escalation point for cross-domain or cross-portfolio application decisions.
- Guiding enterprise application portfolio management in collaboration with business and IT representative and defining criteria for: application investment, modernization or replacement, decommissioning and consolidation.
- Monitoring and reporting compliance level of the architecture landscape and flagging cross-ABB planning and road mapping implications.
Qualifications for the role
- 10+ years in application or enterprise architecture roles in large, decentralized, or federated organizations
- Proven track record in application modernization and portfolio rationalization
- Experience influencing architecture without direct delivery ownership
- Expertise in application architecture patterns (monolith, microservices, modular monoliths), SaaS and COTS integration models, domain-led design and capability mapping application lifecycle management and hybrid and multi-cloud application environments
- Strong architectural judgement and pragmatic decision-making
- Ability to balance enterprise consistency with local set-up
- Executive-level communication and storytelling
- Comfortable in facilitating trade-offs across cost, speed, and risk
This opportunity is open to candidates in multiple countries, with the final work location determined based on the selected candidate. As compensation may vary by location, we are committed to being transparent throughout the hiring process and will share details of the salary range, variable compensation and benefits package with candidates who progress to the first interview stage for a location in the European Union, covered by the EU Pay Transparency Directive.
The final offer will be tailored based on your role location, experience, skills and qualifications, internal market positioning and alignment with ABB internal standards.
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Skills Required
- 10+ years of experience in application or enterprise architecture roles within large, decentralized, or federated organizations
- Proven track record in application modernization and portfolio rationalization
- Experience influencing architecture without direct delivery ownership
- Expertise in application architecture patterns, including monoliths, microservices, and modular monoliths
- Expertise in SaaS and COTS integration models
- Expertise in domain-led design and capability mapping
- Expertise in application lifecycle management and hybrid and multi-cloud application environments
- Strong architectural judgment and pragmatic decision-making
- Ability to balance enterprise consistency with local setup
- Executive-level communication and storytelling skills
- Ability to facilitate trade-offs across cost, speed, and risk
ABB Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about ABB and has not been reviewed or approved by ABB.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as comprehensive, with medical, dental, vision, mental health support, and disability and life insurance included. Immediate eligibility in some roles reinforces the sense of dependable core coverage.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off offerings are described as broad, including paid holidays, sick days, volunteer time, sabbaticals, and, in some cases, 25 days of PTO. Flexible scheduling and remote-work options add to perceived time-off and flexibility value.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits are positioned as robust, including a 401(k) with company contributions or matching and, in some cases, profit sharing or pension savings. Stock purchase/share acquisition programs complement longer-term savings options.
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