Principal AWS Cloud Engineer, Technology II

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 API Engineer 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:

• Leverage your extensive AWS expertise to implement state-of-the-art platform automations and API technologies using cloud native offerings.
• Collaborate across teams and serve as a thought leader to modernize API platform practices enabling global, highly available solutions using native AWS technical enablers.
• Provide architecture, security, and technical guidance to accelerate serverless and infrastructure as code practices.
• Develop a deep understanding of business drivers to foresee organizational needs and plan solutions addressing these needs.

Tools and skills you will use in this role:

• DevOps using AWS native tooling (CodePipeline & CodeBuild).
• Knowledge of networking and AWS cloud connectivity.
• Infrastructure automation using CloudFormation and other AWS native tools.
• Experience designing API contracts and API First development.
• Ability to work with teams to create engineering approaches, prioritize activities, and lead teams from project conception through delivery.
• Author API strategy roadmaps and align execution across multiple agile teams.   

Experiences that make you a strong candidate for this role:

Required: 

• Bachelor's Degree with 9 years’ experience; Master's Degree with 8 years’ experience; PhD with 4 years’ experience.
• A minimum of two years leading AWS native development and DevOps for a large, highly regulated firm.
• Extensive experience providing digital capabilities using native AWS technologies.
• Prior API design experience serving global eCommerce enablement.
• Advanced expertise with Java, TypeScript, or other common development languages.
• Completed testing as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer or other AWS certifications.

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.

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 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.