Principal Software Architect

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Job description

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.

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 student debt program and 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

Collaborate with other product teams across ARDx and Abbott to enable integrations between our solutions and other Abbott products

Work with Product Owners, Business Analysts, and other the other members of the Architecture team to ensure that the architecture and design specifications are effective in meeting user needs, and provide clear direction for implementation by the scrum teams

Evaluate strategies to leverage external design & development teams for more rapid and scalable software development

Engage with Development Teams periodically to ensure that new software implementations are aligned with the standards, guidelines, conventions, and the overall architectural vision of the product

Provide guidance as necessary to Software Developers for implementation and design questions, and to weigh in on key decisions

Required

Bachelor's Degree with 12 years of related experience; or

Master's Degree with 10 years of related experience

Preferred

Bachelor's or advanced degree in computer science

5+ years of experience with Agile software development methodologies

Experience with design and architecture of large-scale, enterprise software solutions, systems, and products

Demonstrated ability to guide others as a subject matter expert in software development

Experience and thorough understanding of the full software development lifecycle, with an appreciation for the interdependencies between the different stages

Experience documenting with UML

Familiarity/experience with a broad array of software development competencies, such as:

Cloud environments, cloud-native technologies, and infrastructures such as Azure/AWS/GCS, Kubernetes and containerization in general, PaaS, DBaaS

Microservice architectures, RESTful API services

Scalability, load balancing, performance tuning for composite solutions

Data storage architectures; relational, object, distributed, document-oriented, mobile databases; data warehouses

Programming languages and environments: C#, JavaScript, Angular, C++, WiX

Cybersecurity and secure-by-design methodologies

Dev Ops tools such as CI/CD pipelines, Jenkins, Azure Dev Ops, and IaC

Test automation, test-driven development (TDD)

Participants who complete a short wellness assessment qualify for FREE coverage in our HIP PPO medical plan. Free coverage applies in the next calendar year.

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives:

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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The base pay for this position is $(phone number removed) - $(phone number removed). In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

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