Strategic Enterprise Integration Architect (API & Events)

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

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