Director AI, Algorithms & Intelligent Architecture

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Abbott Rapid and Molecular Diagnostics (RMDx) is part of Abbott’s Diagnostics family of businesses, bringing together exceptional teams of experts and industry leading technologies to support diagnostic testing which provides important information for treatment and management of diseases and other conditions.
The Director, AI, Algorithms & Intelligent Architecture is a key member of the global R&D leadership team that leads the AI and Algorithm teams and owns the strategic aspects of software development in the Infectious Diseases (ID) Business Unit (BU) within RMDx.   This position is responsible for building and developing an AI team to advance our AI strategy to significantly enhance resource efficiency, streamlining product development processes, and elevate the overall quality of products and deliver lasting value to our customers.  It is also responsible for leading an algorithm team supporting our diagnostics platforms to deliver high performance assays with efficient execution. This role works cross functionally and collaborates with other functions both within and outside of R&D, collaborates across the division, and through external partners to strategically define and execute on all elements of project design, development, and integration on multiple platforms.  
This job description will be reviewed periodically and is subject to change by management.

RESPONSIBILITIES: 
•    Lead a global organization of 12+ data scientists, engineers, and algorithm specialists including full time, contractors, and off shore engineers located in Europe and the US, responsible for algorithm development, AI projects, and product architecture capable of supporting advanced AI solutions. 
•    Create the vision and strategic direction of the organization, ensuring alignment with the purpose, behaviors  and mission of ID: 
o    Drive cost optimization by leveraging off shore engineers for appropriate project tasks, and own the relationship with our off shore partners.
o    Build and grow the competencies of the organization to meet both near term and long range roadmap.
o    Hire strategically, keeping in mind both current needs and future needs of the organization.
•    Define and lead the AI Innovation strategy, roadmap and R&D team to develop leading edge products and solutions within Abbott as well as to our customers:
o    Leverage the latest advancements in AI to develop tools and solutions that bring efficiency and optimizations in projects that delivers significant savings in R&D and overall ID budgets. 
o    Lead AI projects including AI generated project documentation, Bioinformatics solutions, and large data analytics that will accelerate project timelines and improve predictable execution. 
o    Define architectures to enable AI capabilities for our platforms.
o    Develop customer facing AI solutions that bring unique value to drive new revenue streams for ID. 
o    Leverage the AI solutions developed within ID to impact all parts of Abbott, and take a lead role in driving AI across the entire Abbott business.
•    Ensure a robust cybersecurity framework is applied to all AI solutions. Understand key and emerging risks in order to set objectives and give input to cybersecurity designs and standards.
•    Drive the long-term effectiveness of the organization ensuring it is a high achieving multi-disciplined organization that understands how to execute projects, overcome obstacles, solve complex challenges, and demonstrate commitment to meeting deadlines.
•    Own and drive major software projects tied to corporate officer goals. Deliver with quality and deliver on time. 
•    Champion for software projects and initiatives, representing the organization and working collaboratively with QA, RA, Operations, Marketing, Commercial, and MA functions to resolve conflicts, remove obstacles, and solve complex problems facing the teams. 
•    Develop leaders within the organization to build a succession pipeline capable of becoming future leaders of teams/organizations.
•    Drive and promote our Purpose and Values across the organization. Keeping it front and center with each individual to keep everyone focused on working on the right things and to remind the team that our work matters.  Ownership, teamwork, and leading change are the keys to winning.
•    Collaborate with R&D peers and Marketing stakeholders to understand diverse customer/market needs and translate them into software platform archit