HARTING stands for strong connections – across the globe. As one of the leading international suppliers of industrial connectivity, we are connecting customers to their digital future. We connect around 6,000 people at our headquarter in Espelkamp and at locations worldwide. Here you’ll find great colleagues, as well as ever new opportunities and innovations revolving around IoT and artificial intelligence. In everything we do, we remain true to our roots: as a regionally connected family business that always stays firmly grounded in spite of our stellar high-tech. Tasks And Responsibilities Leadership of the IT Business Domain Function
Lead and develop the IT Business Domain department within the overall IT Target Operating Model.
Establish the IT Business Domain as the central business-facing IT function for domain-related business-IT topics.
Define and continuously improve the operating model, collaboration principles, governance routines and interfaces of the IT Business Domain.
Ensure clear roles, responsibilities and decision rights across IT Business Domain Leads, IT Domain Project Managers and IT Domain Solution Architects.
Provide leadership, coaching and direction to the IT Business Domain organization.
Foster a culture of ownership, transparency, business orientation, collaboration and continuous improvement.
Business-IT Alignment and Strategic Partnership
Act as senior IT partner for business leadership on strategic, cross-domain and high-impact IT topics.
Ensure that business strategies and priorities are translated into coherent IT domain roadmaps.
Drive alignment between business demand, IT strategy, enterprise architecture, portfolio planning, budget and delivery capacity.
Ensure that business stakeholders have a clear and structured interface into IT.
Strengthen IT’s role as a business enabler and value contributor.
Support business and IT leadership in understanding dependencies, trade-offs, risks and investment priorities.
Oversee the domain roadmaps across all IT Business Domains.
Establish transparency on business value, urgency, dependencies, risks, capacity needs and architectural implications.
Ensure that IT investments are aligned with business priorities and HARTING’s overall IT strategy.




Drive cross-domain prioritization and prepare decision proposals for IT and business governance bodies.
Define and operate governance mechanisms for domain-related IT demand, roadmap planning, project initiation and decision-making.
Drive consistency in portfolio management, project initiation, architecture alignment and business value assessment.
Ensure compliance with IT governance, enterprise architecture, security, data governance, compliance and financial steering standards.
Represent the IT Business Domain function in relevant IT leadership, portfolio and governance forums.
Coordinate dependencies and priorities across all business domains.
Ensure alignment between domain roadmaps and shared enterprise platforms, especially SAP, CRM, PLM, data, integration, infrastructure and security.
Identify cross-domain synergies, duplication, conflicts and standardization opportunities.
Promote enterprise-wide standardization where appropriate while respecting legitimate domain-specific business needs.
Ensure that major transformation initiatives are coordinated across affected domains and IT functions.
Collaboration with Core / SAP Technology and Technical Functions
Establish clear collaboration models between IT Business Domain and Core Technology, SAP Technology, Shared Technology Services, Enterprise Architecture and other technical functions.
Ensure that Core / SAP Technology teams receive structured, prioritized and business-validated demand.
Ensure that the IT Business Domain organization does not duplicate or replace technical operations, development, configuration, platform administration or support responsibilities.
Ensure that domain roadmaps and initiatives are aligned with Enterprise Architecture and HARTING’s target IT landscape.
Oversee the work of IT Domain Solution Architects from a domain alignment and prioritization perspective.
Promote sustainable, scalable, secure and integrated solutions across the business domains.




Support the translation of technology innovation into business-relevant opportunities.
Project and Delivery Steering
Ensure that approved domain initiatives are handed over into structured project or delivery execution.
Oversee the portfolio of domain-related projects from a business value, priority and dependency perspective.
Ensure that IT Domain Project Managers receive clear objectives, scope, governance expectations and stakeholder alignment.
Monitor delivery progress of strategic domain initiatives together with project managers, domain leads and IT governance bodies.
Support resolution of major delivery conflicts, business escalations and cross-domain dependencies.
Ensure that delivered outcomes are reviewed against expected business value and roadmap objectives.
Support budget planning and investment prioritization for domain-related IT initiatives.
Support make-or-buy, sourcing and partner decisions together with relevant IT leadership functions.
Ensure external partners are used effectively and in line with governance, cost and quality expectations.
University degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, Engineering, Business Informatics or a comparable discipline.
Extensive leadership experience in IT, digital transformation, business relationship management, enterprise applications, IT portfolio management or a comparable environment.
Strong experience in leading business-facing IT functions or complex IT transformation organizations.
Proven ability to align business strategy, IT strategy, portfolio priorities, architecture and delivery capacity.
Strong understanding of enterprise IT operating models, application landscapes, IT governance and project delivery.
Experience with business domains such as Operations, Sales & Marketing, Product Development, Corporate Services or comparable enterprise functions.
Strong understanding of SAP, enterprise applications, integration, data and digital platforms at management level.
Experience in stakeholder management at senior business and IT leadership level.
Fluent English skills.
Benefits: Competitive compensation (EMEA), Flexibility (EMEA), HARTING Birthday (EMEA), Informal atmosphere (EMEA), Reimbursement of commutting expenses (EMEA), Social events (EMEA)
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📌 Head of IT Business Domain (Barcelona)
🏢 HARTING Technology Group
📍 Barcelona