Operations Senior (Lead) Architect

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

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 cross‐functional levels. Defines a high level enterprise‐wide 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 assessm