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 Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.

Job Description

Come to work each day with an inclusive and collaborative business technology team. As an Application Architect 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.

In this role you’ll be responsible for:

Design and implement innovative solutions leveraging your architecture expertise.
Continuously improve efficiency by optimizing existing application architecture and processes including externally and internally developed applications.
Collaborate with multiple build teams and/or CoEs around best practices, reducing technical debt and alignment to established architectural standards.
Provide architectural guidance to internal and external development teams.
Possess hand-on programming experience in one or more development languages including C#, Java, or Python.
Document and visualize application architecture, ensuring alignment with standards.
Lead working sessions to create architecture recommendations with diverse stakeholders and create architecture and design recommendations.
Evaluating “Fit for purpose” to drive Build vs. Buy decisions suitability to custom application development for new business demand and/or platform affinity.
Review and evaluate feasibility of application development proposals.
Knowledge of Agile, Waterfall, or other development methodologies is necessary.
Evaluating emerging application development standards, technologies, and practices to integrate into internal development standards and practices.
Escalation points for intractable engineering problems encountered by dev teams.

Qualifications

Experiences that make you a strong candidate for this role:

Required

Bachelor’s degree with 7+, Master's degree with 6+, and PhD with 2+ years of solid, diverse work experience in IT and LifeScience R&D.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Excellent interpersonal skills for effective communication and collaboration.
A passion for learning and staying ahead of the curve with cutting-edge technologies.
A desire to translate real-world business problems into effective technical solutions.

Beneficial

Experience with GxP applications.
Work experience in the pharmaceutical industry.

Why Business Technology Solutions

For anyone who wants to use technology and data to make a difference in people’s lives, shape the digital transformation of a leading biopharmaceutical company, and secure sustainable career growth within a diverse, global team: we’re ready for you.

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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