Job Description

IS Enterprise ArchitectTake your next career step at ABB with a global team that is energizing the transformation of society and industry to achieve a more productive, sustainable future. At ABB, we have the clear goal of driving diversity and inclusion across all dimensions: gender, LGBTQ+, abilities, ethnicity and generations. Together, we are embarking on a journey where each and every one of us, individually and collectively, welcomes and celebrates individual differences.In this role you will be responsible to work with senior leaders to define and evolve the overarching ABB Target Enterprise Architecture, define and accelerate 3 - 5 years IT roadmap to ensure an adaptable and modern IT landscape for the future. The location of the role is flexible with a preference for a European time zone, preferably outside Switzerland.Your responsibilities

• Lead the design and management of reference architectures. Assess the current IT environment and develop a future state IT architecture. Identify the enterprise business drivers and requirements that advance future-state architecture capabilities.
• Provide the transparency and visibility of progress of roadmaps based on the objectives.
• Lead identification and analysis of key industry and technology trends to assess potential effect on the enterprise.
• Direct the research and evaluation of emerging technology, industry and market trends; promote innovative solutions. Facilitate the cross-ABB design of minimum viable architectures.
• Develop relationships with other enterprise leaders to understand current and emerging business needs and manage the overarching ABB IS Innovation Portfolio.
• Build the long-term strategic plans and roadmap for key architecture components in line with business priorities and objectives.
• Maintain a holistic view of the ABBxe2x80x99s strategy, processes, information and technology assets.
• Facilitate and coordinate efforts toward the establishment of the innovation portfolio definition, its structure and processes.
• Support a balanced portfolio of capability-led projects that include sustainable and disruptive initiatives that include product, service, process, platform and business model innovation.

Your background

• More than 10 years of relevant working experience (e.g. in IT Architecture, Innovation) in large complex organizations with approx 5 yearsxe2x80x99 experience in senior leadership role connected with technology
• Deep expert knowledge across areas of technology, especially current and future technical and applications architecture and its implications
• Curiosity to learn about potentially relevant new technologies and see their implications and possible uses
• Broad network within the technology industry (inc. know-how of best practices)
• Finely tuned communication and influencing skills
• Significant experience in diverse organizational setups: enterprise, vendor, start-up, is a significant advantage

More about usIt is our mission in Information Systems (IS) to harness the power of information technology to deliver valuable, reliable and competitive IS services for ABB. If you have a strong technical and analytical mind and the drive to help us stay ahead of the competition, you are the one we are looking for. We look forward to receiving your application (documents submitted in English are appreciated). If you want to discover more about ABB, take another look at our website www.abb.com. Work model: hybrid #LI-hybrid

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