Operations Senior (Lead) Architect

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 Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.

Job Description

As a recognized multidisciplinary expert, drives functional performance by designing and implementing solutions aimed at enabling or accelerating the delivery of new or improved products. Multidisciplinary technical leader acting at group, department and cross-functional levels. Defines a high level enterprise-wide architecture focusing on the mapping of IT capabilities to business needs. Manages the linkage between strategic planning, performance management, and investment management. Technology Architects will be aligned to a specific area: Information, Solution, System, User Experience (UX) or Data. Serve as the leader for the BTS Operations Architecture Community of Practice (CoP).

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.

Qualifications

• 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.

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.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion. It is AbbVie's policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.

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