Solutions Architect - ELDS

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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We’re looking for a technically strong, customer focused Solutions Architect to shape ABB’s electrification solutions across the UK market. You will define and position integrated solutions for Data Centres, Renewables, Emerging Industries, and Utilities, working across pre sales and customer engagement. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys translating customer needs into well engineered, commercially competitive solutions — and who thrives at the intersection of technical expertise and customer-facing collaboration.

Our teams support each other, collaborate, and never stop learning. Everyone brings something unique, and together we push ideas forward to solve real problems. Being part of our team means your work matters - because the progress we make here creates real impact out there.

We want you to bring your full self to work—your ideas, your energy, your ambition. You’ll have the tools and freedom to grow your skills, shape your path, and take on challenges that matter. Here, your work creates impact you can see and feel, every day. 

Your Role and Responsibilities

In this role, you’ll help run what runs the world, by taking on meaningful work that drives real impact.

• Lead the technical solution input to create winning, compliant, and commercially competitive bids.

• Develop conceptual and detailed electrification architectures for projects in data centres, utilities, renewables, and emerging sectors.

• Define system topologies including MV/LV distribution, protection, SCADA, digital systems, and BESS integration.

• Create and support eHouse / prefabricated substation solutions, including equipment layout, compliance, HVAC considerations, and integration of ABB technologies.

• Provide technical leadership during project bid, supporting compliant and competitive solution proposals.

• Engage with customers, end users, consultants, EPCs, and DNOs to influence specifications and present ABB solutions.

• Collaborate closely with ABB sales, engineering, product management, and global solution teams.

• Capture market insights and lessons learnt from executed projects to continuously improve our solution offering.

• Solid understanding of MV switchgear, protection, and substation architectures.

• Working knowledge of SCADA, communication interfaces, and power automation.

• Familiarity with BESS concepts, grid integration, and power systems.

• Experience with eHouses, packaged substations, or prefabricated electrical buildings.

• HND in Electrical Engineering or related discipline.

• Experience in solution architecture, consulting engineering, applications engineering, or tendering.

• Prior UK market experience with electrical projects is an advantage.

ABB offers a full range of benefits to help you thrive at work and beyond.

• Competitive salary

• 25 days annual  leave plus bank holidays

• Competitive contributory pension scheme

• Life assurance

• Flexible benefits scheme (Includes options to buy/sell holidays, health checks, dental, eye care, gym memberships, cycle to work, gadget discounts and more)

• Internal mobility opportunities, mentorships & access to projects globally

• Employee Assistance Programme

• Generous employee referral scheme

• Company car or cash for car allowance

• Home based

• Private medical cover for yourself

• Generous bonus scheme

For the 6th consecutive year ABB UK has been recognised as a Top Employer in UK. Being certified as a Top Employer showcases an organisation’s dedication to a better world of work and exhibits this through excellent HR policies and people practices.

More about us

Electrification provides leading electrical distribution and management technologies, solutions and services to electrify the world in a safe, smart and sustainable way. The portfolio includes medium- and low-voltage electrical components, switchgear, digital devices, enclosures, and circuit breakers, among
others. With our products, solutions and services, we collaborate with customers to improve power delivery and security, enhance energy management, efficiency and operational reliability, as we seek to achieve a low carbon society. go.abb/electrification 

Join us. Be part of the team where progress happens, industries transform, and your work shapes the world. 
Run What Runs the World. #RunwithABB 

We value people from different backgrounds. Could this be your story? Apply today or visit www.abb.com to read more about us and learn about the impact of our solutions across the globe.