Senior Director, Software Engineering

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

Responsible for overall leadership of the Software Engineering organization. Accountable for delivering scalable, reliable, high-performance, innovative medical device software and non-regulated digital health software. Deep understanding of SAFe Agile software development framework, modern enterprise software Microservice architecture, Cloud Native software and mobile application development. Provides guidance to the design and development of software engineering processes. Works closely with team to establish software development goals while ensuring compatibility with all systems involved.
 
What You’ll Work On

• Provides technical and functional leadership. Develop strategy to build high performing software engineering teams. Formulate team goals to support business growth objectives, performance management, recruit, develop and retain software talents to support business needs
• Provides leadership to define development methodologies, build software plan of record, establish development estimate practices, allocate engineering resources to projects, chose appropriate software technology stack (development environment and toolchains) for continuous integration and continuous deployment.
• Institute efficient communication and cross-functional collaborations with marketing, quality, regulatory, clinical, project management, etc, at multiple levels.
• Interfaces with appropriate internal and external stakeholders (regulatory, customers, etc.) to ensure development programs meet regulatory and customer requirements.
• Keeps senior management team informed of design/development progress and issues.
• Guides development and documentation of test plan protocols, standard operating procedures, specifications and test procedures.
• Develops departmental budget estimates. Obtains capital resources to deliver business goals.
• Contributes to business unit and divisional strategy planning.
• Participates in review boards for intellectual property, CAPA, complaints, business unit planning, and others as necessary.
• Reviews and provides functional approval for project and quality system documentation.
• Evaluates potential business partners, including physicians, vendors, contract product development and manufacturing companies.
• Develops and manages organizational plans and resources for the specific department and business units for which they are responsible.
• Provides mentorship and career development oversight for direct report employees.
• Tracks and forecasts divisional and product and technology projects.
• Support all divisional initiatives as identified by divisional management and in support of Quality Management Systems (QMS), Environmental Management Systems (EMS), and other regulatory requirements
• Hires and retains a diverse, highly qualified staff and provides ongoing performance feedback. Sets goals which align to department pl