Enterprise Domain Architect for Application & AI

ABB; Luogosanto; Ibrido; EUR 120.000 - 190.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

ABB is seeking a Global Head of IS Enterprise Architecture to define and govern ABB's enterprise-wide application architecture. You will ensure coherent evolution of application landscapes while enabling business units and product teams to retain autonomy in building and running applications.

In this role you will establish guardrails, target states, and decision frameworks for architecture, focusing on modularity, lifecycle management, interoperability and alignment to ABB's business

Competenze

• 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 architecture patterns (monolith, microservices, modular monoliths), SaaS and COTS integration, domain-led design and capability mapping, lifecycle management and multi-cloud environments.
• Executive-level communication and storytelling.
• Ability to balance enterprise consistency with local setup.
• Comfortable in facilitating trade-offs across cost, speed, and risk.

Mansioni

• Define and govern enterprise-wide application architecture across ABB, ensuring coherent evolution of application landscapes.
• Set up guardrails, target states, and decision frameworks for architecture alignment with business capabilities.
• Monitor compliance and provide escalation points for cross-domain decisions.
• Guide enterprise portfolio management and define criteria for investment, modernization, or decommissioning.
• Collaborate with business and IT representatives to align architecture with strategic direction.

Conoscenze

Enterprise architecture

Executive communication

Governance

Portfolio management

Strategy alignment

Modular monoliths/microservices

Cloud architectures

Stakeholder management

Change enablement

Cost, speed, risk trade-offs

Descrizione del lavoro

Noi di ABB aiutiamo le industrie a operare in modo più snello e pulito, e ogni persona qui contribuisce a rendere possibile tutto questo. Avrai la possibilità di assumere un ruolo di leadership, sarai supportato nella tua crescita e sarai orgoglioso dell'impatto che creeremo insieme. Unisciti a noi per contribuire a far funzionare ciò che fa funzionare il mondo.

Questa Posizione Risponde a

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:

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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