IT Sr. Technical Specialist - Informatica MDM

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:

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:

IT Sr Technical Specialist – Informatica MDM will be directly involved in conducting analysis, creating technical/functional specs, configuration, testing and implementation of new and existing systems.  This role will provide expertise that is critical in assisting with the identification of opportunities for the effective use of technology and the implementation of IT Informatica MDM solutions.

What You'll Work On:

• Establishes technology standards for development and maintenance of new and existing systems, makes recommendations for improvement.
• Collaborates with internal customers to ensure user requirements are complete and concise, confirming that changes and enhancements meet technical specifications and user requirements.
• May interact with the business to elicit, analyze and document detailed business requirements.
• Performs business process analysis to define configuration requirements.
• Transforms business requirements into technical documentation including detailed design specifications to describe program development, logic coding and corrections.
• Performs a variety of tasks to review, analyze and modify business application systems including configuration, testing, debugging and implementation.
• Makes appropriate recommendations for continuing, modifying, or abandoning proposed projects based on the results of feasibility studies and/or cost/benefit analyses.
• Maps current processes to the desired state and identifies gaps such as program functions, output requirements, input requirements and sources, data conversion strategies, and system techniques and controls.
• Provides solid test designs, develops test cases and reviews/approves the execution of those test cases.
• Develops business process flows and data models for new system development or for process redesign.
• Contributes to end-user training as needed.
• Provides support to existing applications and resolves business and technical problems.
• Keeps informed of trends and new developments in technology to better advise management of means to accomplish business and information systems goals.
• Communicates effectively with management to enhance their understanding of the opportunities and limitations of information systems.

• 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.
• Performs other related duties and responsibilities, on occasion, as assigned.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE, YOU’LL BRING

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline or equivalent experience.
• Overall 8+ years of IT technical experience.
• 5+ years’ experience with Informatica MDM hub architecture, configuration,