Principal Software Architect

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

Our Informatics business unit, within our Rapid and Molecular Diagnostics division, currently has an opportunity for a Principal Software Architect. This opportunity is available at our Charlottesville, VA location, our Lake Forest, IL location, or remotely (Eastern time zone working hours).

Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments and informatics systems are often the first step in patient care decision making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers.

What You’ll Work On

As a Principal Software Architect, you will be focused on SaaS solutions, leveraging cloud-native technologies and components to provide scalable, high-availability solutions for Point of Care data management.

You will play a pivotal role in our product development lifecycle, driving architecture decisions that ensure the long-term success of our products, and mapping out high-level design visions that allow us to continually evolve and improve the products.  You will select technologies, methodologies, platforms, 3rd-party packages, and other key elements of the overall composition of the system.

You will be actively engaged with the scrum teams, ensuring that the software delivered by the teams is aligned with the functional and technical goals of the product overall.  These interactions will include attending stand-ups on a regular basis, participating in code reviews, collaborating and offering subject matter expertise for the teams when needed.  You will be responsible for seeing that the architecture and design objectives are applied effectively in lower-level designs and implementation.

You will also examine design and implementation work across multiple projects and features, looking for consistency and adherence to the high-level usability and architecture goals of the product.  Where appropriate, you will recommend adjustments and improvements to further the consistency and overall effectiveness of our software solutions.

The Principal Software Architecture role requires substantial software design experience with enterprise systems, excellent communication and facilitation skills with both technical and non-technical audiences, and an ability to distill complex problem domains into manageable and actionable elements.  It requires broad knowledge of a variety of programming languages and development environments, design patterns, methodologies, data architectures, cloud ecosystems, containerization, scalability, and secure lifecycle principles (e.g. secure by design).

• Establish and refine technical and architectural roadmaps for our products; develop tactical plans to position our products for the current and future needs of the business

• Design robust architectures for new SaaS solutions, and define evolutionary plans to migrate from existing on-premises, off-the-shelf solutions to a scalable SaaS model