Staff Software Systems Engineer

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:

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories, and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments and informatics systems are often the first step in patient care decision making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and 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 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 around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

Our location in Irving, TX has an opening for a Staff Software Systems Engineer who independently applies advanced engineering knowledge to complete complex assignments, who leads the design and development of complex software code, unit tests and integration tests for a subsystem.

What You’ll Work On

• Demonstrates expert knowledge and proficiency of the complete software development process; leads and is accountable for the engineering design and implementation for all features and capabilities in one or more subsystems in the System.
• Oversees the end-to-end implementation of all internal and external interfaces, implementation patterns and unit, integration and performance testing strategy for all features in one or more subsystems.
• Defines strategies to meet functional and non-functional requirements.
• Leads implementation for high-complexity, mission-critical features and capabilities.
• Oversees continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) design of one or more subsystems.
• Ensures test coverage of all features and capabilities in one or more subsystems.
• Develops software system, use cases based on feature requirements including regression analysis for complex features.
• Provides technical feasibility assessment to System Engineer on emerging user needs and product requirements.
• Develops software requirements as a technical subject matter expert.
• Evaluates multiple design options, leads proof-of-concepts and proposes optimal design solutions compatible with the software system architecture.
• Leads root cause investigations on high-complexity or high-severity issues.
• Participates in corrective and preventative action assessments as participant of CAPA activities
• Complies with U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations, other regulatory requirements, Company policies, operating procedures, processes, and task assignments. Maintains positive and cooperative communications and collaboration with all levels of employees, customers, contractors, and vendors.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer or biomedical engineering field with a minimum of 8-10 years of related experience
• Master’s degree in computer or biomedical engineering with a minimum of 6 years of experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Expert experience in designing and developing complex software systems.
• Demonstrated ability in providing guidance to junior team members.
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