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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, evolve, and govern the architecture of end-user digital workplace and communication capabilities across ABB. You will be ensuring a coherent, secure, and user-centric digital employee experience, while enabling business units to adopt and extend collaboration, productivity, and communication solutions in line with enterprise standards and security requirements. This role is required to define the overall strategy & architecture for this domain and has three people reporting into it.
The work model for the role is: #LinkedIn_hybdrid
You will be mainly accountable for:
- Digital Workplace & UC Architecture
- Defining and maintaining the domain architecture and standards for digital workplace platforms, collaboration, and productivity tooling
- Unified communications (voice, video, messaging, conferencing)
- Endpoint and client integration (desktop, mobile, VDI)
- Translating enterprise architecture direction into domain-level standards, patterns, and reference architectures
- Ensuring consistent user experience across business units while allowing local flexibility.
- Reviewing and assure solution designs impacting the digital workplace or UC domain comply with enterprise security and identity standards, integrate with core platforms and directories, support scalability, resilience, and supportability.
- Cross-Domain Alignment and working closely with:
- Application Architecture (SaaS, custom apps, lifecycle)
- Integration Architecture (identity, APIs, provisioning, telemetry)
- Security Architecture (Zero Trust, endpoint security, IAM)
- Platform & Cloud Architecture (hosting, networking, device management).
- Providing architectural guidance for selection and evolution of collaboration and productivity platforms, UC and telephony solutions, contact and meeting technologies.
- Engaging with vendors from an architectural perspective (not procurement) and ensuring vendor solutions align with enterprise lifecycle, security, and integration expectations.
- Authority to define and enforce domain-level standards and patterns, approve solution designs within the domain, recommend or reject domain-specific architectural exceptions
Qualifications for the role
- 7–10+ years in architecture or senior technical roles
- Strong experience in digital workplace and collaboration environment from working in decentralized or federated organizations
- Expertise in collaboration and productivity platforms, unified communications and telephony architectures, SaaS-based workplace solutions, identity and access integration, endpoint/ device and client architecture, security considerations for end-user technologies
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills
- Ability to influence without direct authority
- Pragmatic, user-focused architectural mindset
- Comfortable working across technical and business teams
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
- 7-10+ years in architecture or senior technical roles
- Strong experience in digital workplace and collaboration environments in decentralized or federated organizations
- Expertise in collaboration and productivity platforms, unified communications and telephony architectures
- Experience with SaaS-based workplace solutions and identity and access integration
- Knowledge of endpoint/device and client architecture, VDI, and endpoint security considerations
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills
- Ability to influence without direct authority
- Pragmatic, user-focused architectural mindset
- Comfortable working across technical and business 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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