Director, BTS Data Platforms

Company Overview

Abb Vie’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 including immunology, oncology, and neuroscience, as well as products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information, visit  Follow us on Linked In, Facebook, Instagram, X and You Tube.

Provide leadership to develop technology strategies that support business goals, owning the enterprise data platform for analytics and AI. This role will have impact and influence over more than one technology and/or business domain. Build a collaborative partnership with technology and functional domain senior leadership. Develop and guide delivery of comprehensive data platform solutions that address prioritized business problems and innovation needs.

Objectives are defined in collaboration with senior domain leadership and results are assessed from a long‑term perspective.

• Strategy and Influence – Works across multiple business and technology domains to develop a long‑term strategy for the data platform, including ingest, lakehouse, and compute, and executes strategies to achieve key objectives.
• Process Improvement and Optimization – Contributes to identifying overall process and technology improvements, including MLOps/LLMOps, platform reliability, observability, and cost.
• Data Platform – Accountable for the enterprise data platform (ingest, lakehouse, compute, MLOps/LLMOps, reliability, observability, and cost), builds scalable, highly available pipelines on hybrid cloud, and manages platform spend.
• People Management – Manages a team of senior managers and directors across multiple business and/or technology domains.
• Impact – Makes decisions that affect financial, employee, and public‑relations posture of Abb Vie.
• Resource Management – Contributes to the development of resource‑management strategy and organizational structure for multiple business and/or technology domains.
• Liaison and Relationship Building – Builds collaborative relationships with business and technology senior leadership and vice presidents, focusing on top‑priority projects and influencing strategic decisions.
• Culture – Demonstrates Abb Vie’s Ways of Working and Leadership Attributes, manages performance, provides timely feedback, rewards achievements, develops talent, and creates a succession pipeline.

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education and 12+ years of experience.
• Effectively connects employee and business functions to overall Abb Vie goals.
• Proven ability to drive outstanding employee performance and engagement through coaching, motivation, energizing, and inspiring team members.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience managing teams of at least 15 people with a mix of managers, employees, matrixed teams, virtual teams, contractors, and managed service providers.
• Ability to communicate problems in understandable terms to all levels of the organization, including the C‑Suite.
• Thought leader in data platform engineering, lakehouse architecture, and MLOps/LLMOps across multiple technology and/or business domains.
• Experience managing a budget of at least $15 million.
• Hands‑on expertise with large‑scale lakehouse and cloud data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, AWS) and data pipeline engineering.

Preferred:

• Master’s degree and work experience in the pharmaceutical industry.
• Experience in technology operation, strategy, planning, and implementation and/or relevant business domain.

• 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.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance, and 401(k) to eligible employees.
• This job is eligible to participate in our long‑term incentive programs.

Abb Vie is an equal‑opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.