Associate Director Big Data Engineering and Architecture - North Chicago, United States - AbbVie

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 Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.
Job Description

Data and Analytics team in Operations Enterprise Systems (OES) is an ambitious team of Data Scientists and Data Engineers with a unique blend of Business, Scientific, and Machine Learning expertise that seeks to unleash the full potential of AbbVies data assets by bringing technology and/or data and insights to the forefront of decision making via fit-for-purpose data analytics solutions.

The Associate Director, Data Engineering and Architecture is a leadership role within Data and Analytics team and is responsible for strategy, talent management and operations delivery. Identifies new capabilities and opportunities to drive analytics innovation and value creation. Fosters a culture of experimentation to enable data-driven insights for complex business problems. Influences cross-functional leaders to unleash the full potential of data. The selected candidate must have and maintain a clear view of new technologies for analytical use cases, data transfer, ingestion methodologies, data visualization that are coming online and then be able to partner with the appropriate with stake holders for the implementation. The individual will be maintaining a close relationship enterprise Infra teams and Cloud vendor to understand their roadmap, ensure platform support and solution viability.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Data Engineering and Architecture:

Understand the business, technical and architecture strategy, identify business opportunities and implement solutions that can change the trajectory of the business.

Drive the Data Engineering and Architecture strategy and roadmap for Cloud Data warehouse and Analytics offerings to establish a leadership position for operations organizations.

Manage roadmap of tools and technologies: prioritize opportunities to upgrade or migrate to newer solutions.

Oversee team of technical leads and processes for platform maintained in the organization.

Demonstrated ability to manage large upgrades or migrations projects from start to finish with deep technical knowledge.

Knowledge around Information and Data Security, Compliance and Platform scale-ability.

Represents Data Engineering team at critical technology governance and planning meetings.

Research into new data engineering and analytics technologies for Operations.

Identification of new analytics applications within Operations.

Hands-on prototyping and proof-of-concept development.

Development of technical white-papers and executive presentations.

Program Management, Relationship Building and Accountability:

Uses technical consulting skills, expertise and collaboration to translate business needs for technology delivery teams including vendor partners.

Interacts well with diverse groups across business and technology functions and maintains strong working relationships with internal and external collaborators.

Direct a team to manage a project portfolio of projects; leveraging experience to anticipate risk and drive continuous improvement on communication and execution. Negotiates, secures, oversees and ensures that resources are available to meet the long-range operational demands of the business area.

Ensure that project estimates and timelines are complete, comprehensive, and risk tolerant.

Drive continuous improvements in cost and throughput of the team.

Techno-Functional Consulting, Budget Management & Influence:

Makes contributions to identifying overall process and/or technology improvements.

Recommends cost-savings initiatives and drafts BTS workplan for approved initiatives. Educate IT and business stakeholders on the existing technical capabilities already in-place, technology in use within AbbVie BTS and trends in market.

Determines alternative delivery mechanisms as needed.

Oversees and controls teams(~ 10 Onsite and ~ 15 Offshore) budget, project capital / RCE expenditures & ROI. Develops, monitors and meets expense and recovery plans. Continually looks for opportunities for cost avoidance and cost reductions. Manages IT investment for multiple functions.

Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and procedures. Aligns system strategies in support of corporation & business area vision, goals and strategies.

Behaviors:

Consistently demonstrates AbbVie's Ways of Working and Leadership Attributes including an enterprise mindset and people leadership.

Develops and maintain an active continuous improvement approach, including education of other colleagues and evaluation of evolving best practices.

Ensure team members understand the value of and are committed to the genuine participation of stakeholders in the development of processes and services designed to meet stakeholder needs (Customer-Focus).

Manage the evaluation of stakeholder satisfaction and implement strategies across the business to find solutions to areas of concern.

Lead professional development efforts of team members.

Foster a positive and collaborative team oriented working environment.

Significant Work Activities -Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day)

Qualifications

QUALIFICATIONS:

Educational qualifications and key Leadership competencies:

Bachelor's Degree in Business, Computer science or related discipline required with 10 years experience; Master's Degree with 8 years experience. MBA preferred.

3-4 years supervisory and employee development experience. 2-3 years strategic IT planning experience.

Innovative thinking and the ability to leverage past education and experience to be successful in an entrepreneurial environment.

Certification on AWS Cloud architecture a plus.

Interest in technology trends and application of technology to improve end users experience.

Experience in business consulting, program management, business systems analysis and software development.

Expertise within Data and Analytics area within Life sciences including Data Warehousing initiatives.

Strong verbal, written, presentation and communication skills with ability clearly articulate problem statements and recommendations to leadership team.

Must be comfortable with ambiguity; demonstrate problem solving and creative thinking skills, and ability to lead development of roadmaps and plans.

People leadership including performance management and development.

Builds strong relationships with peers and cross functionally with partners outside of the team to enable higher performance.

Learns fast, grasps the essence of any situation, and can quickly change course when necessary.

Raises the bar and is never satisfied with the status quo.

Creates and drives an open and experimental learning environment to continuously drive improvement.

Embraces the ideas of others, nurtures innovation and manages innovation to reality.

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 or local law: