Enterprise Domain Architect for Integration

ING Banking; Milano; Hybrid; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

ABB is seeking a seasoned Enterprise Architect to enable coherent, scalable, and secure integration across ABB's landscape. You will set strategic direction for APIs, events, messaging, B2B integration, and platform integration, translating ABB goals into an integration-specific roadmap and ensuring solutions are scalable and aligned with the long-term vision.

In a hybrid work model, you will partner with business units and governance teams, driving architectural governance, standards, and best

Qualifications

• 10+ years in architecture roles within large, decentralized organizations.
• Strong API-led and event-driven architectures experience.
• Experience operating in governance-heavy environments without slowing delivery.
• Technical expertise in API management, messaging, and multi-cloud integration.
• Strong understanding of EA domains: business, application, data, technology.

Responsibilities

• Direct enterprise integration strategy and processes, embedding change across management.
• Develop, maintain ABB-wide architecture best practices, policies, standards, guidelines, and processes.
• Assess the existing IT environment, design a future state IT architecture, ensure compatibility with solutions, and oversee architectural reviews.
• Monitor and report compliance of the architecture landscape and flag cross-ABB planning implications.
• Translate ABB goals into integration-specific roadmap.

Skills

API management

Event-driven architecture

Enterprise architecture

Security patterns

Strategy & execution

Tools

REST

GraphQL

Async APIs

Messaging platforms

Hybrid cloud

Job description

At ABB, we help industries run leaner and cleaner—and every person here makes that happen. You’ll be empowered to lead, supported to grow, and proud of the impact we create together. Join us and help run what runs the world.

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.

Employment type: Full Time

Type: external