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.

• 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.
• Own and communicate enterprise hybrid cloud solution capability and roadmap.  Partner with Infrastructure peers and Business IT colleagues to identify new private/public cloud solution requirements, deployment models, and adoption plans.
• Relentlessly identify opportunities for leveraging software defines Infrastructure principles to streamline AbbVie’s cloud delivery.
• Develop models for improving AbbVie’s agility and velocity in connecting new cloud partners, including Infrastructure as Service and Software as Service capabilities.

• Highly proficient in AWS and/or Azure cloud architecture and engineering with core components - compute, networking, storage, and security.  3+ years experience in Cloud Architecture. 

• Demonstrated experience assessing application architectures for cloud fit.

• Demonstrated experience with architecting for agile delivery and DevOps culture/principles.

• Ability to document systems architecture.

• Ability to communicate solutions to audiences of varying technical depth.

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience, 5-10 year's experience of IT industry related experience.