Cloud Technical Lead

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your family, be your true self, and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.

• Employees can qualify forfree medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPOmedical plan in the next calendar year.

• An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution

• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.

• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.

• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Cloud Technical Lead position is within our Infectious Disease business unit located at the Towne Centre site in San Diego, California. Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories, and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments, and informatics systems is often the first step in patient care decision-making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers.

This role will be responsible for technical implementation of cloud solutions
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Working closely with local and remote software engineering teams (international) developing software products and platforms as well as supporting current products. This role will promote Agile product development principles and foster continuous improvement. This individual must be a positive, “can-do” leader with exceptional technical background, who possesses the skills of pulling together ideas and suggestions, shaping them into a vision, and then implementing them in a product.

This very hands-on position would require a focus on details and collaboration with the cloud software development team.

The Cloud Technical Lead should demonstrate good communication and people skills, so they can collaborate well within the team and across multiple departments and business units. They should also demonstrate willingness and potential to motivate and grow other team members.

• Provide technical leadership to a global team of software developers to create high quality cloud solution.

• Collaborate with other teams in the organization (local and remote) to coordinate on delivery timelines.

• Facilitate decisions on scope of work, duration of tasks, and product requirements.

• Evaluate current development processes and provide recommendations for improvements.

• Understands and is aware of the quality consequences which may occur from the improper performance of the products.

• Identify key barriers/core problems and apply problem-solving skills in order to deal creatively with complex situations.

• Troubleshoot and resolve complex problems, and make decisions under conditions of uncertainty, sometimes with incomplete information, that produce effective end results.

• Collaborate on establishing best practices in software and systems that lead to efficient development, support high-quality software, and are compliant with our Quality Management System

• Use strong technical abilities and able to suggest multiple solutions to problems.

• Responsible for the development of complex technical project plans and schedules covering all engineering activities.

• Responsible for exhibiting professional behavior with both internal/external business associates that reflects positively on the company and is consistent with the company’s policies and practices; build productive internal/external working relationships

• Carries out duties in compliance with established business policies

• Other duties as assigned, according to the changing needs of the business

• Hands on experience developing Cloud solutions. Experience in using Agile methodologies (e.g. SCRUM, Kanban, TDD, etc.)

• 10 years of experience in systems and/or…