Director, Instrument Software

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:

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

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, Instrument Software is a key member of the global R&D leadership team that oversees and leads the global Instrument Software Development organization and owns the strategic aspects of instrument software development as well as drives all instrument software projects and initiatives in the Infectious Diseases (ID) Business Unit(BU) within RMDx.  This position is responsible for a broad multi-disciplined organization with direct responsibility for the overall design and development of embedded software, firmware, and application layer software for next generation instruments as well as software sustaining support for on market instruments. This role works cross functionally and collaborates with other functions outside of R&D, collaborates across the division, and through external partners to strategically define and execute on all elements of software design, development, and integration on multiple projects and products.   

Main Responsibilities:

• Lead a global organization of 25+ engineers including full time, contractors, and off shore engineers located in Europe and the US, responsible for embedded software/firmware design and development, algorithm and AI development, configuration management, and software sustaining of our next generation instrument platform as well as our on market instruments.

• Lead a staff of senior technical leaders in software technologies and architecture, and 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 the Software DHF for all platforms, own and maintain software QMS procedures including Design Controls, Cybersecurity, and Risk Management.

• Own and drive major software projects tied to corporate officer goals. Deliver with quality and deliver on time.

• Create the vision and strategic direction of the organization, ensuring alignment with the purpose, behaviors  and mission of ID.

• 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.

• Collaborate with R&D peers and Marketing stakeholders to understand diverse customer/market needs and translate them into software platform architecture and technology roadmap(s).

• Promote strong functional excellence by embracing relevant be