R&D Sr. Principal Architect

At ABB, we help industries outrun - leaner and cleaner. Here, progress is an expectation - for you, your team, and the world. As a global market leader, we'll give you what you need to make it happen. It won't always be easy, growing takes grit. But at ABB, you'll never run alone. Run what runs the world.

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What we believe in

ABB stands as a prominent provider of solutions in the energy sectorWe have a multidisciplinary teamlocated incentersaround theworldcooperating on product development.At the heart of ABB's strategy is software-led differentiation and the Internet of Things, Service and People (IoTSP).

Your role and responsibilities

This rolewill bereporting to the R&DLeaderin business areaProcessAutomation (PA)locatedinBangalore. You will be working at Ability Innovation Center (AIC), home to the largest technology and engineering pool in ABB globally and is a part of ABB Global Industries and Services Private Limited, a subsidiary of ABB. It is based inBangalore, the silicon-valley of India. Its unique infrastructure places research, development, engineering, and service teams under one roof, increasing collaboration and reducing time to market, with no compromise on quality.

As part of a proficient team of engineers, you will work on advancing innovative industrial control applications tailored for the Energy service sector Collaborating with teams inNorway,SwedenandGermany, the breadth of technologiesand control strategiesemployed is broad.We are looking for someone who is technicallyvery strong.The chosen individual will be motivated to contribute in a global, evolving, and stimulating environment and can expect significant rewards in both career growth and compensation Opportunities will beavailableto develop their career in the future.

The work model for the role is: Hybrid

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Position yourself as a distinguished technical leader, promoting innovation and crafting strategic architectures for Edge and Cloud-based solutions, consistent with long-term technology and business plans.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and market trends (ABB and competitors), establish and enforce architectural standards, guidelines, and best practices, and ensure key product qualities such as scalability, performance, availability, and observability.
• Own platform security and compliance by creating and maintaining threat models, ensuring security-by-design, and meeting ABB Product Security Assessment (PSA) requirements.
• Collaborate closely with platform teams, product management, customers, and stakeholders to make key architectural decisions, plan the architectural runway, and align platform evolution with future capabilities.
• Mentor and guide development teams, conduct architecture reviews, optimize platforms for rapid and innovative application development, manage technical debt, and maintain clear, up-to-date architectural documentation.

Qualifications for the role:

• A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline, along with a solid understanding of software architecture, platform product development, and experience in creating 5-10 product architectures is required.
• In-depth experience with cloud-based SaaS application development, alongside containerization and orchestration practices utilizing Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift/MicroShift, with an emphasis on Azure.
• Proficiency in modern technology stacks including C# .NET Core, Kubernetes, event-driven and messaging systems (Kafka, MassTransit), time-series and relational databases, with frontend exposure to React and TypeScript as a plus.
• A comprehensive understanding of security and compliance matters, encompassing areas such as authentication, authorization, cryptography, and IT/networking, as well as knowledge of standards like OWASP, ISO 27001, NIST, NCA, IEC, and GDPR.
• Experience with Agile and Scrum methodologies, Azure DevOps, GitHub, and effective collaboration with client stakeholders, business users, and technical teams.
• Exposure to industrial architecture, industrial protocols, and the industrial automation domain, with interest in applying emerging technologies to optimization, sustainability, energy management, and autonomous operations.
• Well-organized and communicative professional possessing leadership traits and the capacity to handle demanding circumstances, with fluency in both spoken and written English.

More about us

ABB is a well-known company in power and automation technologies. Our solutions improve the efficiency,productivityand quality of our customers operations while minimizing environmental impact. Creativity and new ideas are integral to our work, with several technologies that shape today's society having been developed by ABB

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