Application Architect

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Job description

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 . on Twitter , Facebook , Instagram , YouTube and LinkedIn .

Job Description

Come to work each day with an inclusive and collaborative business technology team. As an ApplicationArchitect in AbbVie Business Technology Solutions (BTS), youll have opportunities to contribute to the digital transformation of a leading biopharma company, helping to create solutions that impact patients and their communities for the better.

In this role youll be responsible for:

• Design and implement innovative solutions leveraging your architecture expertise.
• Continuously improve efficiency by optimizing existing application architecture and processes including externally and internally developed applications.
• Collaborate with multiple build teams and/or CoEs around best practices, reducing technical debt and alignment to established architectural standards.
• Provide architectural guidance to internal and external development teams.
• Possess hand-on programming experience in one or more development languages including C#, Java, or Python.
• Document and visualize application architecture, ensuring alignment with standards.
• Lead working sessions to create architecture recommendations with diverse stakeholders and create architecture and design recommendations.
• Evaluating Fit for purpose to drive Build vs. Buy decisions suitability to custom application development for new business demand and/or platform affinity.
• Review and evaluate feasibility of application development proposals.
• Knowledge of Agile, Waterfall, or other development methodologies is necessary.
• Evaluating emerging application development standards, technologies, and practices to integrate into internal development standards and practices.
• Escalation points for intractable engineering problems encountered by dev teams.

Qualifications

Experiences that make you a strong candidate for this role:

Required

• Bachelors degree with 7+, Master's degree with 6+, and PhD with 2+years of solid, diverse work experience in IT and LifeScience R&D.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills for effective communication and collaboration.
• A passion for learning and staying ahead of the curve with cutting-edge technologies.
• A desire to translate real-world business problems into effective technical solutions.

Beneficial

• Experience with GxP applications.
• Work experience in the pharmaceutical industry.

Why Business Technology Solutions

For anyone who wants to use technology and data to make a difference in peoples lives, shape the digital transformation of a leading biopharmaceutical company, and secure sustainable career growth within a diverse, global team: were ready for you.

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state orlocal law:

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Companybelieves ingood faith it will pay for this role at the timeof this posting based on the job grade for this position.Individualcompensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, andwemay ultimatelypay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in thefuture.

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick),medical/dental/visioninsurance and 401(k) to eligibleemployees.

• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentiveprograms.

• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentiveprograms

Note: No amount of payis considered to bewages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, anddeterminable.The amount and availability of any bonus,commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form ofcompensation and benefitsthat are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole andabsolutediscretion unless and until paid andmay be modified at the Companys sole and absolute discretion, consistent withapplicable law.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion. It is AbbVies policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status. US & Puerto Rico only - to learn more, visit

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