Operations Senior Architect

Summary

Join AbbVie as a Technology Architect, a multidisciplinary expert driving functional performance by designing and implementing solutions to accelerate product delivery. You will define enterprise-wide architecture, manage the link between strategic planning and investment, and lead the BTS Operations Architecture Community of Practice. This role requires a strong technical background in healthcare and proven ability to innovate and influence others in technology.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree with 10 years’ experience; Master's Degree with 9 years’ experience; PhD with 5 years’ experience
• Experience in sophisticated business environments across EA frameworks
• Technical background in healthcare, laboratory diagnostics, medical devices or pharmaceutical companies
• Experience in a variety of IT roles including technical, application development, business systems, and data management
• Additional experience in setting IT Strategy, formal product evaluations, interactions with senior IT management, and managing multi‐divisional and cross‐divisional teams
• Proven ability to innovate with a history of new or improved technology solutions with remarkable impact on company productivity
• Demonstrated ability to influence others in areas of technology

Responsibilities

• Create new solutions and architecture models that contribute to organizational effectiveness
• Provide planning and discipline to ensure that investments in process improvement, information, and technology support the organization's strategic goals, enabling quick responses to changes in market conditions and new opportunities
• Develops and achieves discipline strategy in alignment with functional goals and key business objectives
• Collaborates with experts within function to integrate technical objectives into activities associated with accelerated development of new/improved products or technology
• Advances technical expertise within function
• Proactively demonstrates leadership by advising and sharing knowledge and expert opinions with subordinates, peers, and senior management
• Mentors and trains functional colleagues and assesses current and emerging business challenges enabling functional goal achievement
• Ensures quality and effectiveness of major project plans within function through sound design, early risk assessments, and implementation of fallback strategies
• Provides strategic consultancy support to customers in defining or designing business processes and researching and identifying enabling technologies based on customer requirements
• Sources and identifies emerging technological trends from multiple internal and external sources and assess relevance
• Proactively drives strategic business thinking to gain maximum benefit from investments
• Applies imagination and innovation by creating, inventing, and implementing new or better approaches, alternatives and breakthrough ideas that are valued by customers within the function
• Shapes relationships with affiliates, subsidiaries, vendors, and industry peers in accordance with Abbvie Values, Vendor Management Office, and Purchasing to further the mission, vision and goals of the organization
• Presents technology concepts and results for functional technical and non‐technical leaders as well as potential and existing partners
• Maximizes impact and value of expertise
• Responsible for adherence to corporate standards regarding applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies, including code of conduct, safety, GxP compliance, and data security

Benefits

• Paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick)
• Medical/dental/vision insurance
• 401(k)