Solution Architect

Company 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

The Solution Architect's primary role is to design, build, and deliver solutions that effectively address the business requirements. This includes working with business stakeholders to understand their requirements, designing and developing solutions, and implementing and maintaining those solutions. The role places a significant focus on Salesforce while also exploring emerging technologies. Additionally, the Solution Architect plays a vital role in mentoring and coaching other senior engineers.

Responsibilities:

1. Work with business stakeholders to understand their requirements and develop solutions that meet those requirements.
2. Design and implement scalable, secure, and efficient applications on Salesforce.
3. Hands-on architect comfortable working with engineers at code/detailed design level.
4. Guide and mentor development teams on sound design and coding principles, best practices in API-based, and Cloud environments.
5. Perform architecture assessments to identify areas for improvement and potential bottlenecks.
6. Develop Salesforce architectural standards for business applications.
7. Contribute to the long-term roadmap for the platform, ensuring it can evolve and adapt to future requirements.
8. Create architecture and design recommendations while leading working sessions with multiple stakeholders who may have conflicting requirements.
9. Build and maintain strong partnerships with business users, leaders, BRMs, and Portfolio Managers to define strategies that maximize business value.
10. Partner with the enterprise architecture team to ensure architecture alignment.
11. Drive standardization, maintenance, and use of coding libraries such as UI frameworks and integration patterns to be used in conjunction with Salesforce.
12. Evaluate “Fit for purpose” to drive Build vs. Buy decisions suitability to custom application development for new business demand and/or platform affinity.
13. Review and evaluate feasibility of application development proposals to ensure adherence to AbbVie standards.
14. Propose application optimization for externally developed applications.
15. Evaluate emerging application development standards, technologies, and practices to integrate into internal development standards and practices.
16. Serve as escalation points for intractable engineering problems encountered by application development teams.

Qualifications

1. Bachelor’s Degree with 7 years of experience, Master’s Degree with 6 years of experience, or PhD with 2 years of experience in IT.
2. Strong understanding of the Salesforce platform features, including integration patterns, data model, and best practices.
3. Experience with Salesforce customization and optimization.
4. In-depth knowledge of application architecture for GxP applications, Cloud native solutions (IaaS / PaaS), and Integrations (using APIs).
5. Competent to work at the highest level of all phases of application program/system design and implementation.
6. Research and maintain knowledge in emerging technologies and possible application to the business.
7. Handle complex issues and problems.
8. Strong verbal and written communications skills, analytical ability, judgment, and the ability to work effectively at all levels with both internal and external organizations.
9. Experience in DevOps methodologies.
10. Possession of architect-level certifications is advantageous.

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law:

1. The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.
2. We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance, and 401(k) to eligible employees.
3. This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs.
4. This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion. 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 protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.

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