Senior Data Architect - AbbVie

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 Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn. 

Come to work each day with an inclusive and collaborative Business technology team! As a Senior Data Architect, IT in AbbVie Business Technology Solutions (BTS), you’ll have opportunities to contribute to the digital transformation of a leading biopharma company, helping to create solutions that impact patients and their communities for the better.

Leads the strategic design and development of data architecture, that include data modeling, data integration, data consumption methods, data services etc., to support Patient Services and Consumer Marketing functions. The Senior Data Architect partners with IT strategy and planning team, Enterprise Architecture, Commercial Analytics & Operations, Marketing, and Data Governance teams to ensure the delivery of quality, consistent and reliable data products & solutions.

In this role, you'll be responsible for:

• Demonstrate knowledge of pharmaceutical and healthcare business and utilize this knowledge to lead the strategy, design and architecture of bigdata products and solutions that are scalable and extensible . Provides in-depth functional & technical expertise for developing data products to solve complex business needs. Review, validate and enhance conceptual, logical & physical database designs. Define data management standards & best practices covering data architecture modeleing, data integration approach, data access methods, data security, metadata management, data quality etc.
• Understands and adheres to corporate standards regarding applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies, including code of conduct, safety, GxP compliance, data security, and the software development lifecycle.
• Understands organization's vision, goals and strategies. Aligns department priorities appropriately, determines critical success factors, evaluates and pursues initiatives, investments and opportunities based on fit with strategies. Champion change and innovation. Stimulates creativity and innovation in others. Open to new ideas.
• Creates a collaborative working relationships with key IT partners such as Solution Architects & Application Architects, as well as with key Business stakeholders to understand the organization’s business strategy, specific business processes, and provide clear directions to technical teams for accurate data delivery.
• Responsible for overall organizational effectiveness. Establish and maintain high-quality relationships with all levels across the company and with external partners.
• Provides leadership in adherence to processes by performing design walk through and approvals, reviewing solution architectures, drives data literacy by maintaining a reference architecture with the data domain specifications.
• Partners with Platform Architecture team in evaluating new database utilities & tools, leads Proof of Concepts and Proof of Technologies, and drives implementation of new data capabilities within the data ecosystem

What makes you a strong candidate for this role:

Required:

• Bachelor's Degree with 8 years experience; Master's Degree with 7 years experience; PhD with 3 years experience.
• Experience in implementing cloud based data solutions using AWS services such as EC2, S3, EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, Glue and big data tools like Spark, EMR, Hadoop etc.
• Hands on experience on data profiling, data modeling and data engineering using relational databases like Snowflake, Oracle, SQL Server; ETL tools like Informatica IICS; scripting using Python, R, or Scala; workflow management tools like Autosys
• Experience in Java, JMS, SOAP, REST, JSON, XML technologies, along with Unix or Linux scripting and stream processing systems like Kafka, Spark streaming etc
• Experience on data cataloging and data lineage tools like Alation, Collibra, Manta etc., and hands on experience in Agile delivery methodology, Scrum / Kanban frameworks and agile project management tools like JIRA, Confluence etc.
• Good business acumen and ability to negotiate with business & BTS stakeholders, and good executive presence with excellent communication, documentation and presentation skills.

Beneficial:

• AWS Certification as Cloud Practitioner, Solutions Architect, Developer/Data Engineer.
• Understanding of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning concepts.
• Experience with reporting tools like PowerBI or Tableau.
• Work experience in the pharmaceutical industry.

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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