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This position reports to:
Global Head IS Enterprise Architecture__
In this role, you will have the opportunity to enable the organization to make the right decisions about the integrated ABB enterprise architecture landscape. You will ensure coherent, enterprise-wide direction across business functional domains (e.g., Finance, HR, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Sales, Service). Each day, you will provide architectural leadership, guidance, and support that will enable functional autonomy while preventing fragmentation, duplication, and architectural drift in a decentralized organization. This role operates at enterprise scale, arbitrating trade-offs across functions, platforms, and delivery units to ensure long-term business and technology sustainability. The role will primarily oversee the domain architecture for Legal & Integrity, HR and Finance, and will have input into other functional domains. It has three people reporting into it.
The work model for the role is: #LinkedIn_hybrid
You will be mainly accountable for:
- Enterprise Functional Architecture Direction
- Defining and maintaining the enterprise functional architecture vision and target state.
- Translating business strategy into functional capability-based architectures.
- Ensuring consistent interpretation of enterprise principles across all functional domains.
- Guiding evolution of core business systems in alignment with enterprise strategy.
- Cross-Functional Coherence & Trade-Offs
- Ensuring architectural coherence across functional domains, platforms, and geographies.
- Resolving conflicts between functional requirements and enterprise constraints.
- Balancing global vs local process ownership, standardization vs differentiation, SaaS vs customization.
- Acting as the final escalation point for cross-functional architectural decisions.
- Architecture Guardrails & Reference Architectures
- Defining enterprise-wide functional architecture principles and guardrails.
- Establishing reference architecture for core enterprise systems (e.g., ERP-centric landscapes), functional platforms and shared services and integration of functional and digital capabilities.
- Governance & Decision Authority
- Defining and evolving decision rights for functional architecture topics.
- Contributing to Architecture Review Boards (ARB) for functional initiatives.
- Approving or rejecting architectural exceptions impacting enterprise functional coherence.
- Guiding investment decisions related to functional platforms and transformations.
- Leadership of Domain Architects
- Enterprise Transformation Enablement
- Supporting major enterprise initiatives and partnering with other Enterprise Architects to align functional roadmaps to business capabilities and to make sure that transformations are architecture-led, not vendor- or project-led.
Qualifications for the role
- 12–15+ years in enterprise or domain architecture roles
- Deep experience across one or more major business functional domains ideally from large, decentralized, or federated enterprises
- Experience leading architecture in major enterprise transformations
- Strong SAP knowledge, ERP- and platform-centric architectures
- Expertise in functional capability modeling, business process harmonization, SaaS and packaged application landscapes, cross-domain dependency management, and architecture governance at enterprise scale
- Strong executive communication and storytelling skills
- Ability to arbitrate complex trade-offs pragmatically
- Comfortable operating with ambiguity and scale
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Skills Required
- 12–15+ years of experience in enterprise or domain architecture roles
- Deep experience across one or more major business functional domains
- Experience leading architecture in major enterprise transformations
- Strong SAP knowledge and ERP- and platform-centric architecture experience
- Expertise in functional capability modeling
- Expertise in business process harmonization
- Expertise with SaaS and packaged application landscapes
- Expertise in cross-domain dependency management
- Expertise in enterprise-scale architecture governance
- Strong executive communication and storytelling skills
- Ability to pragmatically arbitrate complex trade-offs
- Ability to operate comfortably with ambiguity and scale
- Experience in large, decentralized, or federated enterprises
ABB Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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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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