Application Technology Lead (manufacturing)

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:

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Sylmar, CA or Waukegan, IL locations within the Business Solutions & Service IT Organization.

As the Application Technol

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your family, be your true self, and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
• An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Sylmar, CA or Waukegan, IL locations within the Business Solutions & Service IT Organization.

As the Application Technology Lead (Manufacturing) you’ll have the chance to implement and build a technology focused team within our TS3 Manufacturing IT Organization. The role will focus on Manufacturing Execution System BASIS and Platform technologies delivery and support. You will work with our business customers to ensure key technologies are delivering required value to the organization.

What You’ll Work On

• Build and maintain multiple DEV, QA and prod environments for a J2EE application (FTPC -MES by Rockwell Automation) running on JBOSS and tomcat. Maintain the same code base across all environments with documented or automated deployment processes.
• Deploy and maintain various application components on JBOSS, IIS and tomcat technologies. Monitor and maintain these technologies at optimal performance levels and manages SLAs for the functionality.
• Maintain and manage various application related services like data transfer and data purge at optimal levels.
• Collaborate and partner with infrastructure teams (network, Oracle, Windows /Linux) to deliver and deploy MES and other manufacturing systems.
• Responsible for creating and maintaining a DR (Disaster Recovery) plan for MES and related systems. Lead yearly testing plans for DR set-up by collaborating with infra and business teams.
• Partner with the functional groups within the IT organization to communicate and clarify business needs, contribute to development of long-range system /platform plans, and ensure products and services are aligned with business needs.
• Maintain server infrastructure compliant to Cyber security standards. Manage folder and user permission standards for access to various file types. Define plans and paths to remediate if not compliant.
• Manage semi-annual code pushes for enhancements to all QA and prod environments and manage related documentation in a validated environment
• Create and maintain robust and validated processes for making changes / incidents to core MES components (Linux /Windows/JBOSS) and application related changes. Create and manage proper documentation for DWI (departmental work instructions) and SOPs and processes should be followed by him and the team.
• Responsible for high system up-time of MES system and other related manufacturing system integrations with SAP, Windchill etc. Provide leadership on outage calls and work with infra team to restore application functionality quickly and seamlessly.
• Set-up monitoring for system uptime on application servers and web servers and application components like JBOSS, tomcat by using dashboards and scripting and reduce critical line down incidents.
• Ability to triage performance issues on JBOSS, Linux and other systems by partnering with infra groups like Linux, network, Citrix and windows teams.
• Collaborate with operations and technology leaders on system upgrades and enhancements.
• Create a compelling