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 113,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

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

This position works out of our Chicago, IL location in the Digital and E-commerce organization.

We are looking for a senior technologist with expert-level knowledge of digital marketing, e-commerce, customer relationship management, integration, DevOps technology, and cloud computing. This is a hands-on role where you will be responsible for the solution design and architecture across mobile, web, marketing and e-commerce solutions and the integrations they require.

This is a delivery focused role, reporting to the Divisional Delivery Director, Digital & e-Commerce. You will be accountable for the solution design of all solutions delivered within a division in the digital and e-commerce domains and driving reusability on a global scale.  You will be working with internal and external delivery and development teams to ensure the reference architecture and strategy is understood and incrementally delivered in each project.  You will have to manage tactical vs target state trade-offs to ensure delivery is achieved without the addition of technical debt.  The role will require a strong technical background covering the full stack and interacting with business as well as technical stakeholders.

The architect is responsible for defining and maintaining the structure of the solution, and ensuring that it will meet the requirements. This architect will function in an agile environment, and must also help the team to work together in an agile fashion, to jointly own the solution, and to interface well with other parts of the organization.

You have worked on large scale programs and want to take your impact to the global scale.  Continuous improvement of the existing solutions must be part of your mindset

What You’ll Work On

CORE JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Establish and implement contemporary digital and e-commerce architectures capable of meeting a continuously changing industry and market environment to support Abbott’s strategic goals.

• Deliver application architectures and development patterns for AEM solutions web and mobile across e-Commerce.

• Ability to translate business requirements into system level design and detailed technical architecture documents.

• Support new business development opportunities with emphasis on experience delivery platforms including Adobe Experience Cloud.

• Defines integrations with 3rd party tools such as SalesForce, Marketo, Cognito

• Technical leadership skills in driving architecture, helping with technical trade-offs, and driving best practices.

• Help identify opportunities for and drive Continuous Improvement activities.

• Maintain a strong understanding of industry standards and collaborate with fellow team leaders on the prioritization and execution of ongoing platform improvement initiatives.

• Ability to present at an executive level for solution approaches

• Provide guidance for architecting solutions that meet data privacy regulations

• Responsible to ensure solutions are scalable and meet both Abbott and industry standards

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or Master’s Degree

• Minimum 8 years of experience in delivering large scale IT solutions in digital landscape

• Strong experience in solution architecture for enterprise web content and digital experience management platforms.

• Hands on experience estimating development tasks or review estimates provided by Vendor

• Experience with Lean / Agile development methodologies

• Experience implementing CMS - Adobe Experience Manager and Magento

• A strong background in technical design / architecture

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong experience with solutions respecting security and data privacy (GDPR, CCPA) and PCI compliance requirements

• Experience with AWS Lambda based integration

• Provide technical guidance to developers around best practices in AEM development – both back-end and front-end execution

• A strong background in technical design / architecture

• Good experience with Agile SCRUM development.

• Applied knowledge of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) and best practices.

• Experience or familiarity with technologies and best practices in areas not limited to: Customer experience, CRM, marketing / sales automation, web content management, mobile solutions, social engagement, event bus, audience selection and API.

• Excellent track record in designing solutions for complex and cross functional programs

• The candidate must have knowledge in preferably Java and / or strong background in React / Angular / Node.js

• Experience developing or working with Cloud-based technologies such as Amazon Web Services is highly desired.

• Excellent oral and written communication, presenting, meeting facilitation, negotiation, decision making, and problem-solving skills

• Experience working in matrix global organization with working in virtual geographically disparate teams being the norm

• Healthcare Experience preferable

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* 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:  www.abbottbenefits.com

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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Travel: Yes, 5 % of the Time
Medical Surveillance: Not Applicable
Significant Work Activities: Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day)