Sr. Manager, IT 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 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

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.
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity   

Our locations in St. Paul and Maple Grove, MN currently have an opportunity for a Senior Manager, IT Architecture within the Medical Device IT Product Technology organization. This role operates in a highly regulated, security-sensitive environment (SOC 2, ISO 27001) and is responsible for delivering platforms and services that enable connected products (IoT) and support customers and clinicians.

The Senior Manager works closely with business partners, R&D, and internal IT teams to design, standardize, and scale infrastructure capabilities that support secure, reliable, and compliant product ecosystems.

The Senior Manager, IT Architecture serves as the technical leader and people manager for the architecture function, responsible for defining infrastructure strategy, establishing standards, and ensuring alignment with security, compliance, and business objectives.

This role acts as a trusted advisor and decision authority across Product Technology, driving innovation while maintaining operational rigor.

What You’ll Work On

Leadership & Strategy

• Lead and develop a team of architects supporting the Product Technology environment
• Define and communicate the architecture vision, roadmap, and standards
• Provide technical leadership across cloud, platform, and infrastructure strategy
• Stay current with emerging technologies and recommend adoption where appropriate

Architecture Governance

• Own and lead the Infrastructure Architecture Review Board (ARB) processes
• Ensure alignment with Product Security, compliance, and regulatory requirements
• Establish and enforce architecture principles, standards, and guardrails
• Oversee intake, evaluation, and approval of new infrastructure designs

Solution Design & Advisory

• Serve as a trusted advisor to R&D and application development teams
• Guide design of infrastructure for business partner applications and shared services
• Ensure solutions are secure, scalable, resilient, and consumable by DevOps and application teams
• Collaborate closely with BRMs and Project Managers during intake and design phases

Cloud & Platform Innovation

• Lead the evaluation and onboarding of cloud providers and PaaS services (Azure, AWS, GCP).
• Lead efforts to migrate and transform on-prem applications to cloud delivery.
• Drive adoption of modern platform capabilities (CI/CD, infrastructure as code, automation)
• Execute and oversee proof-of-concepts (PoCs) for new technologies
• Evaluate and integrate AI/ML and generative AI capabilities within cloud platforms, ensuring alignment with security, compliance, and Product Technology standards
• Partner with business and R&D teams to assess AI-driven solutions and define scalable, compliant infrastructure patterns to support