Operations Senior (Lead) Architect at 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 atwww.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie onTwitter,Facebook,Instagram,YouTubeandLinkedIn.

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 crossfunctional levels. Defines a high level enterprisewide 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 nontechnical 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.

• 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 multidivisional and crossdivisional 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.

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• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick),medical/dental/visioninsurance and 401(k) to eligibleemployees.

• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentiveprograms.

• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentiveprograms

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