Cloud Development Lead

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 .

• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO

• 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

The Cloud Development Lead position is within our Infectious Disease business unit located on site at the Towne Centre site in San Diego, California.  This is not a hybrid or remote role.

This role will be responsible for technical leadership of implementation cloud solution as a lead however will not manage people directly.

Working closely with local and remote software engineering teams developing software products and platforms as well as supporting current products. This role will promote Agile product development principles and foster continuous improvement.

This individual must be a positive, “can-do” leader with exceptional technical background, who possesses the skills of pulling together ideas and suggestions, shaping them into a vision, and then implementing them in a product. This very hands-on position would require a focus on details and collaboration with the verification & validation team.

The Cloud Development Lead should demonstrate good communication and people skills, so they can collaborate well within the team and across multiple departments and business units. They should also demonstrate willingness and potential to motivate and grow other team members.

What You’ll Work On

• Provide technical leadership to a global team of software developers to create high quality cloud solution.

• Collaborate with other teams in the organization (local and remote) to coordinate on delivery timelines.

• Facilitate decisions on scope of work, duration of tasks, and product requirements.

• Evaluate current development processes and provide recommendations for improvements.

• Understands and is aware of the quality consequences which may occur from the improper performance of the products.

• Identify key barriers/core problems and apply problem-solving skills in order to deal creatively with complex situations.

• Troubleshoot and resolve complex problems, and make decisions under conditions of uncertainty, sometimes with incomplete information, that produce effective end results.

• Collaborate on establishing best practices in software and systems that lead to efficient development, support high-quality software, and are compliant with our Quality Management System

• Use strong technical abilities and able to suggest multiple solutions to problems.

• Responsible for the development of complex technical project plans and schedules covering all engineering activities.

• Responsible for exhibiting professional behavior with both internal/external business associates that reflects positively on the company and is consistent with the company’s policies and practices; build productive internal/external working relationships

• Carries out duties in compliance with established business policies

• Assesses issues thoroughly and solves complex problems; removes roadblocks for the team.