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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 enable the organization to make the right decisions about the integrated ABB architecture landscape, by ensuring coherent, scalable, secure, and reusable integration patterns across business areas while enabling local autonomy and delivery speed. You will be operating at enterprise and cross-domain level, setting strategic direction, guardrails, and decision frameworks for all integration capabilities, including APIs, events, messaging, B2B integration, agentic AI, and platform integration. You will be entrusted to translate ABB goals into integration-specific roadmap and ensure solutions within Integration domain are scalable, secure, and aligned with ABB’s long-term vision.
The work model for the role is: #LinkedIn_hybrid
You will be mainly accountable for:
- Directing the development of enterprise integration strategy and processes, to ensure the strategic application of change is embedded in the organization management.
- 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.
- 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 architecture roles, with strong enterprise integration experience in large, complex, decentralized organizations
- Background in API-led and event-driven architectures at scale
- Experience operating in governance-heavy environments without slowing delivery
- Technical expertise in: API Management (REST, GraphQL, Async APIs), messaging and integration platforms, hybrid and multi-cloud integration, domain-driven design and bounded contexts, security patterns for integration
- Strong understanding of EA domains (business, application, data, technology)
- Ability to see the "big picture" while maintaining deep technical expertise in the specific stream and focus on execution
- Strategic thinking combined with execution focus is necessary
- Excellent communication, influencing and facilitation skills with ability to explain "the why" behind technical decisions to both C-suite executives and engineering teams
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.
Building a cleaner, smarter future takes all kinds of minds: the curious, the courageous, and the creative. That's why we welcome people from all backgrounds and experiences.
Ready to make an impact?
Apply today or visit https://www.abb.com to learn more about the impact of our solutions across the globe.
Skills Required
- 10+ years of experience in architecture roles
- Strong enterprise integration experience in large, complex, decentralized organizations
- Experience with API-led and event-driven architectures at scale
- Experience operating in governance-heavy environments while maintaining delivery speed
- Technical expertise in API Management, REST, GraphQL, Async APIs, messaging and integration platforms, hybrid and multi-cloud integration, domain-driven design, bounded contexts, and integration security patterns
- Strong understanding of enterprise architecture domains, including business, application, data, and technology
- Strategic thinking combined with execution focus
- Excellent communication, influencing, and facilitation skills
- Ability to explain technical decisions to C-suite executives and engineering teams
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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What We Do
ABB is a leading global technology company that energizes the transformation of society and industry to achieve a more productive, sustainable future. By connecting software to its electrification, robotics, automation and motion portfolio, ABB pushes the boundaries of technology to drive performance to new levels. With a history of excellence stretching back more than 130 years, ABB’s success is driven by about 110,000 talented employees in over 100 countries. www.abb.com
