Senior Architect, BTS Analytics

Purpose:

Business Technology Solutions (BTS) Analytics & Information Strategy is an ambitious team of curious data and analytics professionals on a mission to elevate decision-making by AbbVie BTS leadership through timely and relevant insights. We uncover opportunities for BTS by digging into data to find the “why” and “what can we do about it?” Then we ensure progress towards those opportunities through structured analytics and reporting that enables timely action and course correction. We focus on the highest priority challenges for BTS, saying no when needed to protect time during regular working hours for deep analytical creativity and collaborative problem solving. We challenge ourselves to continuously improve the insights we deliver, learning from each other and insights teams across AbbVie.

You will succeed as the Chief Architect, BTS Analytics if you excel at designing complex data structures across diverse source systems that maximize the potential for insight generation to drive the BTS Strategy. Using your deep theoretical and practical understanding of data and systems architecture, the strengths and limitations of available data processing platforms, source system data, and the business processes that generate that source data, you architect a data structure that efficiently meets current needs and anticipates longer-term insight generation potential. You know that an architecture does not drive value until it is effectively implemented, so you take ownership to ensure implementation according to your design, guiding implementation efforts of internal and augmented resources through detailed and structured planning that reflects a robust understanding of the cross-functional contributions needed to deliver results. You articulate and champion your vision amongst the Enterprise and Domain architect communities, influencing others to harmonize their own roadmaps where needed to contribute to your strategic vision. Domains in scope enable the BTS Strategic imperatives, including Unleashing the Power of BTS People and Teams (talent, learning and development, cycle times), Best in Class Employee Experience (collaboration tools utilization, productivity outcomes, satisfaction and engagement), Sustainable Technology (TCO, ROI), and Trust (financial transparency, showback, chargeback).

This technical leadership role is competitively compensated through AbbVie’s Total Rewards program. We are looking for talented people to join our team. And when we find them, we make it our business to reward them well. Additional compensation details for this role provided on request after successful screening interviews.

Responsibilities:

• Create new architecture models that contribute to organizational effectiveness. Act as a thought leader and evangelist in Enterprise Architecture activities. Provide planning and discipline to ensure that investments in process improvement, information, and technology support the organization's strategic goals, enabling quick responses to changes in market conditions and new opportunities. Ensure alignment of EA with business and BTS strategies. Provide leadership and direction for EA activities
• Provides strategic consultancy support to customers in defining or designing business processes and researching and identifying enabling technologies based on customer requirements.
• Proactively drives strategic business thinking to gain maximum benefit from the system. Innovates solutions to problems having significant and long-term impact. Recognized as expert in solving problems related to multiple areas of specialization.
• Influences people outside area/cross-functional/sphere of influence. Establishes extensive intradepartmental interactions and initiates interdivisional interactions to develop a network of support both within and outside of AbbVie. Interfaces with senior management on significant matters, often requiring the coordination of activity across organizational units.
• Thorough knowledge of the customer's business process and environments. Knowledge of requirements and regulations impacting the customer. Strong awareness of the customer's industry.
• Establishes linkage between BTS Strategy and the business strategy. Contributes to the introduction of improved processes through tools, training, or technology. Develops long range plans and strategic direction of IT based on the business direction.
• Works in consultative role towards predetermined goals. Is responsible for adhering to project and overhead budgets and schedules.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Computer Science, or related discipline. Master's Degree preferred.
• At least 12 years of experience in a variety of IT roles including technical, application development, business systems, and data management. At least 5 years experience managing projects. Additional experience in setting IT strategy, formal product evaluations, interactions with senior IT management, and managing multi-divisional and cross-divisional teams.
• Deep theoretical and practical expertise with both relational and graph database design and optimization
• Deep theoretical and practical expertise across a wide range of ETL tools (including Informatica)
• Ability to optimize data architecture given the requirements for pre-processing implied by the limitations of widely used BI tools (Power BI preferred)
• Experience in sophisticated business environments across Enterprise Architecture frameworks.
• Deep understanding of meta data management, data dictionary, catalog, user training, and lineage documentation.
• Proven implementation of creative technology solutions that advanced the business.
• Excellent written and oral English communication skills.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer including disability/vets. It is AbbVie’s 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 disabled veteran, recently separated veteran, Armed Forces service medal veteran or active duty wartime or campaign badge veteran or a person’s relationship or association with a protected veteran, including spouses and other family members, or any other protected group status. We will take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment qualified minorities, women, individuals with a disability, disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, Armed Forces service medal veterans or active-duty wartime or campaign badge veterans. The Affirmative Action Plan is available for viewing in the Human Resources office during regular business hours.