Associate Director, Data Architecture and Engineering

Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Job Description

Can you lead our Enterprise Data Architecture and Engineering team? We’re seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect who can work through complex data and AI solutions, conceive and deliver elegant, extensible, AI-ready data solutions, lead and mentor data engineers and architects through the delivery of emerging tech in a complex, distributed corporate environment, and work across boundaries to align solution patterns and gain the confidence of domain partners and technology leaders. You will be developing architectural governance and management processes for data and data infrastructure and you’ll be aligning the enterprise data portfolio with business applications, consulting on major systems strategies and implementations.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate and recommend architecture changes based on technology and business trends. Specify architecture approach and standards.
• Provide strategic perspective and alignment. Lead data architects and engineers in data governance efforts and architectural reviews, contributing to current methodologies.
• Review architecture strategy to ensure fitness for purpose. Ensure that architecture supports business process requirements
• Consult with business clients, senior technical specialists and other technical architects in all aspects of enabling technologies to meet business needs. Provide expertise on architecture design or improvement, considering the performance impact of the architecture.
• Investigate, research, provide technical advice to the adoption or integration of new technologies and their business impact.
• Identify problems and issues that affect multiple areas and facilitate resolution. Anticipate and evaluate impacts of problem so