Commercial Datalake - Delivery Lead

About AbbVie
AbbVie’s mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines 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, eye care, virology, women’s health and gastroenterology, in addition to products and services across its Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.

Position Summary

The US Commercial Business Technology Solutions is looking for a Solutions Delivery Lead who is responsible for the planning, coordination, and successful deployments of US Commercial Data Lake project deliveries and building capabilities across AbbVie brands, and functions. Coordinates with IT Business Relationship Managers, Business Consultants, Solution Architects, Technical Leads, Developers, Business Analysts, PMO, business stakeholders, and System Integrator(s) to drive the US Commercial solutions through end-to-end delivery and completion. Works closely with Data and System Integrator(s) to ensure alignment of key project activities and milestones for deployment and solution delivery. Oversees and ensures completion of business and project cut-over activities.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing the solution development team in the planning, design and development of new projects for US Commercial Abbvie Data Lake.
• Tracks/drives design activities to best meet project requirements and develop a solution plan that is communicated to business stakeholders.
• Understands the technical design sufficiently to be able to accurately estimate levels of effort and needed skillsets at the user story (requirement), epic, and project levels.
• Manage project execution and IT technical delivery of Datalake projects, providing day-to-day project leadership. Candidate MUST have a technical background.
• Manage multiple work streams of IT technical project delivery through extensive, scoping, prioritization, sprint planning and close coordination/cooperation with Business Leads and IT Technical Leads
• Overseeing/maintaining a multi-year cross-program execution schedule (Release Calendar)
• Monitoring inventory and development of technical deliverables, and other work packages involved in delivery of multiple, concurrent, cross-Program releases
• Participating in Quality Reviews of Conceptual Designs, Detail Designs, Detail Test Plans
• Leads technical team meetings, including daily stand-ups to monitor progress of and mitigate risks around the technical build.
• Anticipates and/or identifies blockers to development progress and address them appropriately.
• Drives scope change management processes in an Agile or quasi-Agile development.
• Adjusts technical resources as necessary, depending on resource expertise, technical design needs, capacity and availability, and adherence to overall solution plan.
• Creates, coordinates, and influences the deployment communication plans, including “Go Live” readiness, change management, cutover, and stabilization.
• Works closely with IT Service Delivery vendor teams to ensure implementation of post-production support model and processes.
• Conducts “lessons learned” with the Project Manager(s) after each deployment to continuously improve the technical delivery model and strategy over the course of the project.
• Performs all activities following AbbVie’s Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) framework and processes.

 

Qualifications

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree with 8 years experience; Master's Degree with 7 years experience; PhD with 3 years experience.
• Proficiency with Agile software development management methodologies
• Proficiency with Scrum technologies
• Experience in managing own and other’s work effort including time management, estimation, completion, issue identification & resolution, and status reporting
• Minimum 4 years’ experience in leading teams of resources for projects required.
• Experience with big data tools: Hadoop, Spark, Scala, HDFS - EMR, Cloudera, Snowflake etc.
• Experience with at least one of the data pipeline and workflow management tools: Azkaban, Luigi, Airflow, Oozie, Autosys etc.
• Experience with AWS cloud services as a platform and as an infrastructure
• Implementation experience of Azure Devops CICD automations
• Strong understanding of the software development cycle and experience with Agile delivery.
• Strong problem-solving skills in a very complex area of high volume of transactions, with integration builds a per each application specific needs in the eco system.
• Knowledge of Lean, ITIL, PPM, PMO, etc. standards and processes preferred.
• Must be able to generate, explain, and present detailed schedules, objectives, reports, and other documentation concisely and accurately.
• Strong data analysis and problem-solving skills

Significant Work Activities
Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day)
Travel
No
Job Type
Experienced
Schedule
Full-time
Job Level Code
M
Equal Employment Opportunity
At AbbVie, we value bringing together individuals from diverse backgrounds to develop new and innovative solutions for patients. As an equal opportunity employer we do not discriminate on the basis 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, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic.