Senior Architect, Cloud Engineering

Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas - immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Job Description

As a discipline expert and contact, drives functional performance by designing and implementing business technology solutions aimed at enabling and accelerating delivery of new or improved products. Technical leader acting at group, department, and cross-functional levels. Responsible for managing the Data, Solutions, Business, and/or Technology architectures and tying them to the Enterprise Architecture and other architectures. Technology Architects will be aligned to a specific area: Information, Solution, System, User Experience (UX) or Data.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Sources and identifies emerging scientific and technological trends from multiple internal and external sources and assess relevance. Integrates trends into functional short-term objectives. Advances cross-discipline technology and direction through generation of data.
• 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.
• Responsible for adherence to corporate standards regarding applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies, including code of conduct, safety, GxP compliance, and data security.
• Cloud Strategy Development: Develop and implement cloud engineering strategies in alignment with functional goals and business objectives. Define and implement cloud security posture. Integrate technical objectives into activities that accelerate the development of new/improved cloud-based products or technologies.
• Emerging Technologies: Identify, evaluate, and integrate emerging trends in cloud and DevOps technologies with a focus on security from diverse sources. Align short-term objectives with industry advancements.
• DevOps and Automation: Utilize AWS services for infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and cloud deployments. Tools include, but are not limited to, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeBuild, and AWS CodeDeploy.
• API and Cloud Integration: Design, prototype, and deliver secure and scalable APIs and cloud applications using AWS services (e.g., AWS Lambda, API Gateway, Fargate, and ECS)

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent education in Science or Technology related field with extensive of related work; Master's Degree or equivalent education in Science/Technology or PharmD or equivalent education with extensive (typically 14 years) of related work; PhD in Science/Technology or related field of related work experience.
• Technical background in healthcare, laboratory diagnostics, medical devices or pharmaceutical companies.
• Proven ability to innovate with a history of new or improved technology solutions with remarkable impact on company productivity.
• Interacts well with diverse groups within function and maintains strong working relationships with internal and external collaborators.
• Demonstrated ability to influence others in areas of science and technology.
• AWS Expertise: Demonstrated experience with AWS cloud services, including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, DynamoDB, and IAM, SCPs, KMS, AWS Security Hub, AWS Config.
• DevOps Tools Knowledge: Proficiency in using AWS DevOps tools like CloudFormation, CodePipeline, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy, along with experience in Docker and Kubernetes for container management.
• Technical Experience: Strong understanding of networking in cloud environments, security practices, and modern cloud architectures such as serverless and microservices.
• Programming Skills: Proficiency in programming languages like Python, Java, or Node.js, and experience with infrastructure as code using tools like CloudFormation and AWS Cloud Development Kit.

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law:

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs.
• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company's sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.

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