ABB

Digital Solution Architect – Energy Industries

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Petaling Jaya, Malaysia or Singapore, SingaporeSenior

Responsibilities

  • Lead the development of integrated digital and automation solutions with sales, engineering, service, cybersecurity, and partner teams.
  • Design scalable digital architectures and transformation roadmaps for energy and process-industry customers.
  • Build business cases and ROI models tied to asset performance, production efficiency, reliability, energy optimization, sustainability, safety, and productivity.
  • Serve as the digital technical lead for strategic pursuits and key accounts, engaging customers, EPCs, consultants, IT/OT leaders, and plant management.
  • Define industrial data and integration architectures using OPC UA, MQTT, APIs, edge computing, industrial historians, cloud platforms, and enterprise systems.
  • Embed cybersecurity, resilience, governance, network segmentation, access management, secure connectivity, backup and recovery, monitoring, and compliance into solution designs.
  • Guide technical delivery, testing, commissioning, user adoption, continuous improvement, and development of reusable solution templates.
  • Lead technical tendering, scope definition, compliance reviews, estimation, risk assessments, and lifecycle value realization.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science/IT, or a related discipline.
  • Around 8 to 10 years of experience in industrial automation, digitalization, industrial software, OT, technology consulting, or digital transformation, including at least 5 years in solution architecture, technical leadership, or consulting.
  • Expertise in DCS, PLC, SCADA, SIS, PMS, industrial historians, MES/MOM, APM, and enterprise systems integration.
  • Understanding of IIoT, edge computing, OPC UA, MQTT, APIs, cloud and hybrid architectures, data lakes, analytics, AI/ML, digital twins, and data visualization.
  • Knowledge of industrial networking, cybersecurity, identity management, high-availability architectures, virtualization, container platforms, data governance, and lifecycle management.
  • Understanding of industrial operations, production processes, maintenance strategies, safety requirements, and business KPIs across energy and process industries.
  • Commercial and project experience with EPC projects, brownfield modernization, greenfield development, lifecycle services, software subscriptions, partner ecosystems, scope development, estimation, value engineering, ROI assessment, and risk management.
  • Strong leadership, stakeholder management, executive communication, workshop facilitation, and cross-functional team leadership skills.
  • Ability to translate complex technologies into business value propositions, digital roadmaps, and scalable customer solutions.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model.
  • Opportunities to grow skills, shape a career path, and take on impactful challenges.
  • Inclusive workplace welcoming people from diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Categories

Solutions Engineering
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About ABB

10,000+ employees

ABB builds electrification, robotics, motion, and process automation hardware and software for industrial, utility, transportation, and infrastructure customers. Its portfolio spans motors and drives, robots, PLCs, switchgear, and EV charging, sold as equipment, systems, and services under the ABB Ability platform. Formed in 1988 and headquartered in Zurich, it is a public company traded on the SIX Swiss Exchange and NYSE.

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